New Order, A Certain Ratio, Send No Flowers, 1981

The arty nights of Plato’s Ballroom in Liverpool

Don’t you love “videoteque”? Sadly, I don’t own this flyer. I had to borrow the photo.

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…