You Had to Be There
eBook - ePub

You Had to Be There

An Odyssey Through Noughties London, One Night at a Time.

  1. 310 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

You Had to Be There

An Odyssey Through Noughties London, One Night at a Time.

About this book

'Gallops through the pre-mobile phone era with wit and chaotic energy.'Sunday Times
' A joyous rags-to-riches tale.'Financial Times
'Nostalgic, salacious and bitingly witty.' Joe Lycett
'A delicious, neon-soaked fever dream.' Munroe Bergdorf
'I couldn't put it down.' Annie Macmanus

The defining book on the iconic noughties-era of pop culture in London as told by DJ Jodie Harsh, who saw, did and survived it all.

Jodie Harsh arrived in London aged fifteen in 2001, heading straight off the train from Canterbury to her first club night at the Astoria. Intoxicated by this initial taste of city nightlife, she didn't leave the party for years, falling in with the right wrong people and exploring the sides of London best experienced under cover of darkness.

Throughout the noughties, from Camden and Soho to Mayfair, from Notting Hill and Primrose Hill to Hackney Road, the city was a messy, beating, slick and sordid melting pot. New music, new fashion, new art, all came together in a mad, dizzying rush before - and during - the financial crash of 2008. Different scenes collided, exploded, were reborn and shaped across the city, at rapid speed.

Harsh grabs us by the hand and leads us back to those decadent times: from the Astoria to The Cross, the Soho Revue Bar to Mahiki, Boombox to The End and her famous friends' houses; to a time before social media and cameraphones were ubiquitous and a life without their perpetual scrutiny allowed for a more liberated, hedonistic and creative existence. You had to be there, and Jodie Harsh was. Every single night.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9780571392438
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Landing Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Pre-party
  6. 1: The Astoria
  7. 2: Turnmills | Heaven
  8. 3: Fabric | Pacha | Heaven (continued)
  9. 4: The Scala | Ghetto | The End
  10. 5: Ministry of Sound | The Cross | Canvas
  11. 6: Too2Much
  12. 7: Boombox | Aquarium
  13. 8: Mahiki | Boujis | Movida
  14. 9: The Hawley Arms | KOKO
  15. 10: Bungalow 8 | Punk
  16. 11: Mass | The Bath House
  17. 12: Recovery
  18. 13: Diu | Shadow Lounge | Madame Jojo’s
  19. After-party: Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
  20. In Memory of Those Who Went Home Early
  21. In Memory of the Places We Danced
  22. The Guest List
  23. About the Author
  24. Copyright

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