New Order, A Certain Ratio, Send No Flowers, 1981
The arty nights of Plato’s Ballroom in Liverpool
Plato’s Ballroom was a short-lived but memorable club night in Liverpool in the early 1980s. The actual venue was Pickwick’s Club, aka Mr Pickwick’s, usually a very normal cabaret club. “Chicken in a basket” clubs, they were called, because that was the easiest way fo…