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SUMMARY:Blow Up
LOCATION:Southend-on-Sea The Fickle Pickle
DESCRIPTION:Paul Tunkin (DJ) plus The Forty Fours (Live) - Blow Up returns
  to Southend at The Fickle Pickle \, Southend-on-Sea\, DJ Paul Tunkin. Sou
 thend has always played an important part of Blow Up's story\, as Blow Up 
 founder Paul Tunkin had been a regular DJ\, promoter and musician in the a
 rea from his time as an art student at Southend College. After moving to L
 ondon in the early 90s it was at Paul's club night The Periphery in Southe
 nd where he sketched out the initial concept for what was to become Blow U
 p. This was around the same time that he DJ'd at several key London concer
 ts for Suede\, Blur and My Life Story. He brought elements of his sets at 
 these concerts together with the new sounds trailed at The Periphery into 
 what became fully realised as Blow Up in London.The original Blow Up flyer
  and poster appropriated The Periphery's modish image of a target and arro
 w which was designed by another former Southend local who had moved to Lon
 don Jake Shillingford (My Life Story). Whilst many of the original Blow Up
  club regulars came from the local scene around Paul's clubs\, these inclu
 ded members of Menswear who met and came together at Blow Up after coming 
 up from Southend and longtime Blow Up resident DJ's The Karminsky Experien
 ce were also from the area. Blow Up last hit Southend when we celebrated 2
 5 years in Southend in 2019 at the Railway Hotel for a sold out night whic
 h featured several Blow Up Records artists live and a DJ set by Paul Tunki
 n. Strangely enough\, this was the only time that we had held a Blow Up ev
 ent in Southend to date.So there you have it\, Southend is always a specia
 l place for Blow Up and we are looking forward to returning there. Whilst 
 with the event taking place at Twenty One on Southend seafront there is th
 e added dimension of this location being just a few hundred yards away fro
 m where Paul's very first club night The Monkey House originally took plac
 e\, meaning everything is being brought full circle in more ways than one 
 for this event.We hope that you can join us for a special night of music a
 nd dancing. More on Blow Up...Blow Up\, a bona-fide legendary club night a
 t the centre of the mid-Nineties Brit Pop explosion\, cited as the catalys
 t and birthplace of the BritPop scene\, influencing the style and sound of
  a generation. Blow Up was voted No.4 in Time Out’s Top Ten Clubs of the
  90s\, described as one of ‘5 Classic Clubs of Our Time’ by Vox Magazi
 ne (alongside The Blitz Club\, Shoom\, The Roxy) and as ‘The club that c
 hanged the world’ by Melody Maker. Time Out’s 'London Calling' book sp
 ecial said of Blow Up that it was “the breeding ground of the Brit Pop s
 ound”. Whilst an NME’s Original’s had Blow Up featured as one if its
  Top Ten Britpop Moments. In July 2022 Time Out London once again listed B
 low Up as one of the greatest London clubs of the past 40 years.Blow Up wa
 s founded and launched by Paul Tunkin 16th October 1993 at the upstairs fu
 nction room of a Camden Town pub the Laurel Tree. After just a few months 
 Blow Up had become the epicentre of a seismic musical and stylistic change
  in what was later called the Britpop scene. From its origins at the Laure
 l Tree\, Camden Town (1993-1996) to Soho venues the Wag Club (1996-2001)\,
  the Metro Club (2002-2009\, the Metro which Paul Tunkin co-ran with forme
 r Wag Club manager Alan Campbell) Blow Up maintained a weekly club event i
 nterspersed with various one-off events. Post the Metro Club’s closure B
 low Up took up weekly and monthly residences in various venues including B
 ar Rumba\, 4 Denmark St and Peckham's Bussey Building followed by a weekly
  five year Friday night residency at the St Moritz Club\, Wardour St Soho 
 (2015-2020) once again interspersed with occasional monthly events includi
 ng the Troubadour London. Blow Up ran continuous weekly events until the n
 ightlife lockdown in 2020 and finally returned for a three night residency
  at Vout O Reenee’s London (Oct - December 2022). November 2023 saw the 
 first part of the Blow Up 30 year celebrations with a sold out club and li
 ve event at Jamboree Kings Cross. Whilst in May 2024 saw Blow Up take to t
 he roof terrace of members club the Century in Soho as part 2 of our 30th 
 celebrations.Outside of weekly and special one-off events in London\, Blow
  Up has also hosted both UK regional and international events across Europ
 e\, USA\, Russia\, and Japan. Whilst the Blow Up club compilations (‘Blo
 w Up A-Go-Go!’ and ‘Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend’) have added to
  the global impact of the club.Blow Up is currently one of the longest run
 ning club nights in London.\n\nBoletos: https://wegottickets.com/event/704
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