With discussions recently about club lighting , I thought i would try and dig up some footage of what UK clubs looked like when I worked there back in the 8o's
This was mostly pre intellignet lighting , with a lot of neon and motorised effects

The show was shot live at a different club every week and (check you tube for more clips) was hosted by Pete waterman of Production team Stock aitken and waterman who produced a lot of pop talent like rick astley kylie minogue etc
The girl i don't remember well, but she looked nice


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UGsg5wUu4Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPsl7RXUDOQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x6ECDtTk5U

Stock Aitken Waterman were my favourite producers. Half my crates are by them. They're totally legends as producers in the late 80s.
And yes, a lot of the large clubs had similar lighting.. lots of neon spinners.

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Good find Russle! Thanks for sharing this.

Look at all those mechanical lights! WOAH! That looks insane with all the moving parts!

Love the music in the videos as well.

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AHH the days of the harvester, helicopter, cosmo ball , nuetron star astrospider tarantula , venus etc

Maintaining them was a pig

They were mostly made by Kremesa and Satel in spain and Coemar in Italy with various other companies making various other versions
Motors were almost inaccesable and they failed often
build quality was dubious and lamps were wired in series, however they were very exciting to watch and i wish I had a warehouse full of them now. To build a club with a mixture of vintage lights and modern movers would be a wet dream for me
Sadly the makers are now defunct (coemar still makes movers) and even searches across the net turns up no info whatsoever on these manufacturers or fixtures, not even pictures

http://www.mondiale.co.uk/night/twe...cotodisco7.html

this is an article from the british nightclub press on history of lighting

http://www.mondiale.co.uk/indexnight.html

main page with a lot more on club history

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Originally posted by techead With discussions recently about club lighting , I thought i would try and dig up some footage of what UK clubs looked like when I worked there back in the 8o's This was mostly pre intellignet lighting , with a lot of neon and motorised effects The show was shot live at a different club every week and (check you tube for more clips) was hosted by Pete waterman of Production team Stock aitken and waterman who produced a lot of pop talent like rick astley kylie minogue etc The girl i don't remember well, but she looked nice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UGsg5wUu4Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPsl7RXUDOQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x6ECDtTk5U

the girl is called makela strachen

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Originally posted by Irish Graham the girl is called makela strachen

of 'the really wild show' fame

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What astounds me is the sheer velocity that some of those lights are spinning at.

Surely there must have been some accidents!

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Originally posted by rabbitjoker What astounds me is the sheer velocity that some of those lights are spinning at. Surely there must have been some accidents!

yep, i remember a 'spinner' falling and breaking someone's arm at The Place, Hanley, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England

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Originally posted by Irish Graham the girl is called makela strachen

Yeah I know it was Makela , actually met her once at hammersmith palais, I just don't remember much about her , can't remeber what else she was famous for