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Project X – City Nightclub, Edinburgh

  By admin | May 12, 2012 - 5:28 pm | Edinburgh Nightclub
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Crazy night at City in Edinburgh!! www.floorplayevents.com

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Project X – City Nightclub, Edinburgh

  By admin | May 12, 2012 - 4:27 pm | Edinburgh Nightclub
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This is when it really went NUTS!!! In Pursuit of Happiness!!! Booooom!!

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SNF 02

  By admin | May 10, 2012 - 1:27 am | Edinburgh Nightclub
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SNF 02
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Image by Carolyn Willitts
Saturday Night Forever, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. Sherman Studio, Cardiff. Venue 13, The Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, June 1998

Writer: Roger Williams

Director: Steve O’Reilly

Designer: Carolyn Willitts

Theatre Company: CF1 Theatre Company

Photographs: Carolyn Willitts

“Saturday Night Forever adds to the new cool Wales phenomenon.” The Scotsman
"As a political event, Saturday Night Forever, is important" Western Mail
"An eye opening and captivating piece of tragicomedy" Theatre in Wales

"Saturday Night Forever is a roller-coaster ride through Cardiff’s night life. It follows Lee, a 20-something living in the heart of the city as he finds the love of his life, and then loses him again. A fast, real, and touching story about what it means to be young and gay in urban Wales."

The minimal set was designed on a low budget to tour in the boot of a car, and was created using some of the off cuts of the opal polycarbonate left over from My Piece Of Happiness. The square panels were painted with thick bright paint from which graphics were scratched out referencing some of Derek Jarman’s last paintings.

The hanging panels could be back lit with white light, which made the scratch marks glow, or front lit using gels the same colour as the paint which made them glow vividly in the surrounding blackness. The sound and lighting designer and technician took his place on the stage throughout the performance and took the part of the dj for the nightclub scene. I’m now married to him.

SNF 04

  By admin | May 10, 2012 - 12:27 am | Edinburgh Nightclub
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SNF 04
Edinburgh Nightclub

Image by Carolyn Willitts
Saturday Night Forever, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. Sherman Studio, Cardiff. Venue 13, The Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, June 1998

Writer: Roger Williams

Director: Steve O’Reilly

Designer: Carolyn Willitts

Theatre Company: CF1 Theatre Company

Photographs: Carolyn Willitts

“Saturday Night Forever adds to the new cool Wales phenomenon.” The Scotsman
"As a political event, Saturday Night Forever, is important" Western Mail
"An eye opening and captivating piece of tragicomedy" Theatre in Wales

"Saturday Night Forever is a roller-coaster ride through Cardiff’s night life. It follows Lee, a 20-something living in the heart of the city as he finds the love of his life, and then loses him again. A fast, real, and touching story about what it means to be young and gay in urban Wales."

The minimal set was designed on a low budget to tour in the boot of a car, and was created using some of the off cuts of the opal polycarbonate left over from My Piece Of Happiness. The square panels were painted with thick bright paint from which graphics were scratched out referencing some of Derek Jarman’s last paintings.

The hanging panels could be back lit with white light, which made the scratch marks glow, or front lit using gels the same colour as the paint which made them glow vividly in the surrounding blackness. The sound and lighting designer and technician took his place on the stage throughout the performance and took the part of the dj for the nightclub scene. I’m now married to him.

exchange place at night 04

  By admin | May 9, 2012 - 11:28 pm | Edinburgh Nightclub
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exchange place at night 04
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Image by byronv2
this site used to be the old Edinburgh Meat Market years ago. When I first moved here the buildings were still there, including the big stone lintel for the market, but it was now a nightclub – a different sort of meat market come a Saturday night! And Fat Sam’s restaurant was there too. Those buildings were demolished (the big stone lintel for the meat market was preserved and erected further along on the edge of the site tho). Site lay as ugly, litter strewn site next to first building in the project for ages before the constructed these. Just in time for the economic collapse…

Club Neo – Stars Lane, Yeovil – former cinema – Classic Yeovil

  By admin | May 9, 2012 - 10:28 pm | Edinburgh Nightclub
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Club Neo – Stars Lane, Yeovil – former cinema – Classic Yeovil
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A visit to Yeovil in Somerset (near the Dorset border).

We visited a few days after the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh came for the Diamond Jubilee.

Stars Lane in Yeovil – leading to the town centre.

This is Club Neo. Looks like a former cinema.

It was the Classic Yeovil

Located on the corner of Stars Lane and South Street at ‘The Triangle’. The Gaumont Palace was built on the site of the Palace Theatre (1913-1933). It was built for and operated by the Albany Ward/Gaumont British Theatres chain, and opened on 15th December 1934.

The facade is in a Georgian style, in red brick with white stone trim. Seating inside the Art Deco style auditorium was on a stadium plan, with 384 on a raised stepped area at the rear, rather than an overhanging balcony, and 811 on the main floor. The 45 feet wide proscenium had an overhanging plaster canopy which was shaped to converge with a backlit fluted column on each side of the proscenium. The side-walls were covered in tapestry panels of blue and gold, with fluted pillars seperating the panels.

In November 1967, the Gaumont was one of a batch of cinemas sold by the Rank Organisation to the Classic Cinemas chain, and it was renamed Classic Cinema. Bingo was introduced on several days a week, and proved successful. The Classic Cinema was closed to films in November 1972, and the Classic name was transfered across to the town’s Odeon, which Classic Cinemas had just taken over.

The former Gaumont/Classic Cinema became a Vogue Bingo Club, later taken over as a Mecca Bingo Club. In recent years it has operated as an independent Top Ten Bingo Club, which closed on 4th October 2009, another victim of the ban on smoking in public places, the reccession and an increase in the tax on bingo. It reopened as a nightclub in 2010.

Copacabana (1994 Original London Cast) – 1. Overture

  By admin | May 8, 2012 - 5:27 am | Edinburgh Nightclub
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Copacabana is a musical, stage musical, and nightclub show written by Barry Manilow, based on the song of the same name. In 1994, the one-hour show was expanded into a three million dollar full-length musical. It premiered on March 21, 1994 at Theatre Royal in Plymouth, England. It also played Manchester, Edinburgh and then London’s West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre from June 23, 1994 to September 9, 1996. It followed with a UK tour for an additional year. This adaptation originally starred Gary Wilmot as Tony/Stephen and Nicola Dawn as Lola.

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Copacabana (1994 Original London Cast) – 12. Who Am I Kidding

  By admin | May 8, 2012 - 3:28 am | Edinburgh Nightclub
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Copacabana is a musical, stage musical, and nightclub show written by Barry Manilow, based on the song of the same name. In 1994, the one-hour show was expanded into a three million dollar full-length musical. It premiered on March 21, 1994 at Theatre Royal in Plymouth, England. It also played Manchester, Edinburgh and then London’s West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre from June 23, 1994 to September 9, 1996. It followed with a UK tour for an additional year. This adaptation originally starred Gary Wilmot as Tony/Stephen and Nicola Dawn as Lola.

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Copacabana (1994 Original London Cast) – 13. Who Am I Kidding (Reprise)

  By admin | May 8, 2012 - 2:27 am | Edinburgh Nightclub
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Copacabana is a musical, stage musical, and nightclub show written by Barry Manilow, based on the song of the same name. In 1994, the one-hour show was expanded into a three million dollar full-length musical. It premiered on March 21, 1994 at Theatre Royal in Plymouth, England. It also played Manchester, Edinburgh and then London’s West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre from June 23, 1994 to September 9, 1996. It followed with a UK tour for an additional year. This adaptation originally starred Gary Wilmot as Tony/Stephen and Nicola Dawn as Lola.

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Copacabana (1994 Original London Cast) – 14. This Can’t Be Real

  By admin | May 8, 2012 - 12:27 am | Edinburgh Nightclub
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Copacabana is a musical, stage musical, and nightclub show written by Barry Manilow, based on the song of the same name. In 1994, the one-hour show was expanded into a three million dollar full-length musical. It premiered on March 21, 1994 at Theatre Royal in Plymouth, England. It also played Manchester, Edinburgh and then London’s West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre from June 23, 1994 to September 9, 1996. It followed with a UK tour for an additional year. This adaptation originally starred Gary Wilmot as Tony/Stephen and Nicola Dawn as Lola.

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