Go-go dancing optic tubes in various colors, strings of battery-operated colored lights in plastic tubes, fire sticks, a musical instrument, or an animal (usually a snake). In the early to mid‑1980s, the performance art dancer John Sex, who performed with a python, played a role in making go-go dancing popular once again at gay and bisexual night clubs along with his life partner Sebastian Kwok. Go-go dancing Go-go dancers are dancers who are employed to entertain crowds at nightclubs or other venues where music is played. Go-go dancing originated in the early 1960s, by some accounts when women at the Peppermint Lounge
The Downstairs Club (later Le Disque a Go! Go!) The Downstairs Club (later Le Disque a Go! Go!) The Downstairs Club was Bournemouth’s first full-time rock, rhythm and blues and jazz venue. It opened in 1961 and under its later name of Le Disque a Go! Go! Manfred Mann, The Who, Eric Clapton, Andy Summers, Georgie Fame, Zoot Money and many other musicians appeared there. In 2014 a blue plaque commemorating the club was unveiled outside the former premises. The Downstairs Club, Bournemouth was opened by Jerry Stooks, a local musician, on 3 May 1961. It occupied a cellar under a greengrocer’s shop at 9 Holdenhurst Road, Lansdowne, Bournemouth.