“Lovers, dreamers, drinkers, put your faith in this dancefloor” – Oyster Boy

Gallery of Past Nights

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Des Was a Bowie Fan is a clubnight (and occasional radio show) playing sweet indiepop, new wave, sixties, post-punk, Motown and Northern Soul music for dancing and dreaming.

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We play: Dexys Midnight Runners * Pulp * Prince * Belle and Sebastian * Brigitte Bardot * The Beatles * Candi Staton * Dusty Springfield * Depeche Mode * Blondie * The Smiths * Serge Gainsbourg * Suede * Idlewild * The Ramones * The Ronettes * Jackie Wilson * Joy Division * B52’s * The Shangri-Las * Shop Assistants * Jimmy Ruffin * David Bowie * Talking Heads * T-Rex * Jonathan Richman * The Rolling Stones * The Jesus and Mary Chain * The Four Tops * The Supremes * Echo and the Bunnymen * The Cure * Carter USM * The Fall * Roxy Music * Ladytron * Fire Engines * The Buzzcocks * Bronski Beat * Elvis Costello * Elvis Presley * New Order * The Pixies * Johnny Cash * Roy Orbison * Del Shannon * Veronica Falls * Martha Reeves and the Vandellas * The Magnetic Fields * The Jam * The Just Joans * The Beach Boys * Pet Shop Boys * The Field Mice * Camera Obscura * Television Personalities * Tullycraft * Felt * France Gall * Broder Daniel * Belinda Carlisle * The Go Go’s * Orange Juice * The Indelicates * Mary Wells * Kim Weston * The Wolfhounds * Sonic Youth * Slowdive * Flowers * Frank Wilson * Ash * The Undertones * Ritchie Valens * Vic Godard & the Subway Sect * The Velvelettes * The Velvet Underground and more ♥

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Here’s the club enshrined in a Tullycraft song. They should have had a residency on Top of the Pops in the 2000s

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