As society begins to tentatively reopen, and as we all adjust and look to the future with hope and optimism, V&A Dundee has opened our latest major exhibition, Night Fever: Designing Club Culture.
V&A Dundee is the only place in the UK to show this exhibition, supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery. It explores the design history of clubs from the 1960s to the present day, taking you from Italy to New York, then to London and Manchester, Berlin, Beirut and Detroit, before ending with a special new section dedicated to Scotland’s distinctive club culture from 1987 to 1997.
I grew up near Dundee and moved to Glasgow in 1993 for university, returning to Dundee in late 2020. Clubs, and club nights, were one of the ways that I got to know Glasgow. I never saw myself as a proper clubber, though lots of my friends were. Glasgow is a clubbing and music city, and clubs were as…
