PANIC: 80's & 90's Video Dance Party with U2 Spotlight & U2 Photo Exhibit by Nick Smash
Living On Video + DJ Lazarus presents
PANIC: 80's/90's Video Dance Party w/ U2 Spotlight
+ U2 photo exhibit by Nick Smash
PANIC is a brilliant evening of new wave, post-punk, classic alternatives, synth pioneers, britpop, shoegaze, madchester, new romantic, classic industrial, ska, and more.
Join hundreds of your friends dancing to the coolest retro tunes at PANIC.
$10 ADVANCED TIX: https://U2panic.eventbrite.ca
Saturday Nov 30, 2024
PANIC: 80's/90's Video Dance Party w/ U2 Spotlight
Ground Control - 1279 Queen St West - Toronto
@groundcontroltoronto
Lounge 9pm - Mainroom 10pm 19+ event
BUY $10: https://U2panic.eventbrite.ca
$10 before 11pm - $15 after or $10 advanced
INVITE: www.facebook.com/events/1075498224155019/
(please INVITE your friends)
U2 Photo Exhibit by Nick Smash: On display will be photos of U2 when they played at The El Mocambo the day after John Lennon was assassinated in December 1980. Captured by Nick Smash for his fanzine ‘Smash It Up’ these raw black and white images show the band at the very beginning of their career.
The day after John Lennon was assassinated in New York City a little known Irish band called U2 played at The El Mocambo.
If you listened to CFNY, read The British music papers or the local fanzines or went to Records On Wheels or The Record Peddler you would have picked up on the buzz this new band was generating.
Nick Smash had been publishing his ‘Smash It Up’ fanzine for just over a year.
U2 were lumped in with the post punk generation of bands but were different as they had more atmospherics, a compelling vocalist and a name that didn’t really mean anything. Gone was angst ridden anger and inarticulate rage.
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