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These articles chronicle the avante garde bands coming up through the Los Angeles Punk and New Wave club scene during that key period. They read like a diary in the lives of these young clubgoers and the burgeoning scene they covered.
Performances by The Go-Gos, Fear, U2, Grace Jones and Talking Heads are reviewed along with other obscure but influential LA rockers - particularly two up and coming bands, one that made it (early-MTV fave Missing Persons) and one that didn't (Red Wedding). It's a look at what nightclubbing meant in Los Angeles in the early eighties. |
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TVparty
presents
found articles circa 1980-85 written by Billy Eye and Judy Zee from
Data-Boy, a gay entertainment magazine published in Hollywood.
In
the early eighties, young people in Los Angeles were flocking to makeshift
clubs in droves to see new up and coming bands. Live new music, not
DJs, was what they wanted to experience. These writings provide a sketchy
look at the underground club scene in Los Angeles during the time that
groups like X, The Go-Go's, Black Flag, The Minutemen and
Wall of Voodoo entered the public consciousness.
Billy
Eye reported on the Downtown & Hollywood punk art/rock scene, an
insular, hardcore world of dark dives like the Brave Dog and
Al's Bar, floating clubs like The Veil as well
as established Hollywood icons The Starwood, Roxy,
and Odyssey1. 
Judy
Zee also covered the Hollywood scene, while writing about Westside happenings
in clubs like The Whisky, Blackies and Club
88 - she
was one of the few female rock columnists on the scene at that time.
