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!) (with Eric Clapton on guitar), The Who, Georgie Fame and many others, including the now London-based Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band. The club later became a discothèque/nightclub under various names, but the basement premises eventually reverted to use as a storage room. On 14 September 2014 a blue plaque commemorating the club was unveiled at the site of the premises by Zoot Money. • Al Kirtley Biography: Jerry Stooks, The Downstairs Club and the naming of Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band The Downstairs Club (later Le Disque a Go! Go!) The Downstairs Club was Bournemouth’s first full-time rock, rhythm and