“There’s never been anywhere like the Quad!” is what you will likely hear if you ever meet anyone who went to the legendary Bootle nightclub, Quadrant Park, in the early 1990s.
Described as the UK’s first superclub and first legal all-nighter, thousands of people danced there every week before it abruptly closed at the end of 1991.
Queue Up And Dance, a new book by Dave Evans explores this history – sharing the personal stories of those who went. Through candid interviews with DJs, doormen, journalists, and, most importantly, the clubbers themselves, we get a unique view of the club’s rise and fall, and working-class life in the North of England during the early ‘90s.
We spoke to the author, Dave Evans, an artist based in Liverpool, who said: “I’m interested in ways that we can listen to voices that don’t usually get heard. I worked with Sefton Libraries on the project about Quadrant Park as I knew it would be a great story, and also I felt it was a slightly overlooked part of the city’s musical history.
“Although I grew up on the Wirral and was a bit too young to go to the Quad, I did go to Cream and always knew of the influence of the Quad on how clubbing in the city evolved. As the club is long gone
and that generation gets older it felt like a great time to try to capture some of this history.”
The paperback book is available to buy at queueupand.dance and the ebook is now available to download at amazon.co.uk