32 pages Photographs by Homer Skyes 26 x 20 cm Language: English Paperback Publisher: Poursuite Second edition 2025
Blitz Club Blitz Kids captures a fleeting moment in London’s vibrant cultural history. In 1980, photographer Homer Sykes documented the legendary Blitz Club, a Soho basement venue where style, music, and creativity collided.
Amid the economic turmoil of 1970s London, Steve Strange and Rusty Egan launched the club’s iconic “Bowie Nights,” welcoming only the “strange and wonderful”; so exclusive, even Mick Jagger was once turned away. Attracting art and fashion students seeking to escape punk’s rawness, the Blitz became a laboratory of androgynous style and avant-garde experimentation, laying the foundations for the New Romantic movement.
Though its heyday was brief, the Blitz endures as a cultural touchstone, immortalized in Sykes’ images of a generation daring to be different.
