Go-go dancing 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 in New York City began to get up on tables and dance the twist. Some claim that go-go dancing originated at, and was named after, the very popular Los Angeles rock club Whisky a Go Go which opened in January 1964, but the opposite may be true – the club chose the name to reflect the already popular craze of go-go dancing. Many
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.