Fanzine
A Certain Ratio, Joy Division
New Hormones, Newton Buildings, 55 Newton Street
4th April 1980

“First mention of The Beach Club, a night set up by Richard Boon and other New Hormones/City Fun associates at Oozits, a seedy, collapsing gay bar with foul bogs in Shudehill that Liz Naylor described as “like The Killing of Sister George”. Its style (obscure film showings, New Order gigs) and the Situationist origins of its name would later be borrowed by Factory for the Hacienda. Indeed Richard Boon intended The Beach Club to fill the gap left when Factory’s original night at the PSV club in Hulme ended, thus there’s a nice continuity there; proof that the two camps weren’t always squabbling. The continuity goes back even further, according to CP Lee – he told journalist Justin Toland that “I remember thinking, Richard’s doing what we used to do in the 1960s – put a band on with a film showing at the same time; dancers; just weird shit. It was great!””