Queue Up And Dance Book Launch

At The Library invites you to the launch of a new book celebrating Quadrant Park, the Bootle nightclub which became the country’s first legal all-night rave in 1990. Produced by Dave Evans, Queue Up And Dance features a collection of interviews with a variety of people, from those who went to the club to the DJs that played there, about their experiences of ‘the Quad’.

Together, these highlight the club’s particular social and cultural context, why it was so important to so many, and how its legacy lives on 35 years later.

The book also contains an introduction by writer and researcher Emma Warren, author of Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor, and an afterword by Melissa Kains, the founder of female and non-binary DJ collective Sisu Crew. Queue Up And Dance is part of a year-long, artist-led project of the same title. It invited those who went to the club in its heyday, and young people living in Bootle today, to collaboratively develop an archive, exhibition, and other creative projects inspired by Quadrant Park and the early DIY culture of rave.

Presented by Rough Trade.

This is an 14+ event