Hello cool cats and jive turkeys, welcome to Daysarenumbers’ Downtown week! This week we’ll be traveling back in time to late 70s & 80s New York to celebrate one of the most creatively fertile periods of popular music and film.
From the Big Apple to Gotham City, New York has always been one of the most mythologized places in the world, and undoubtedly it’s most influential era was in the seventies and early eighties. Artists, musicians and filmmakers were drawn to the city’s sleazy mystique and found creative freedom within it’s crumbling walls and burnt-out buildings. The Lower East Side of Manhattan was the experimental playground to the free-spirited bohemians and the emerging young art practitioners who gave the area a raw and urgent energy. Artists, musicians, choreographers, sculptors were likely to be living within a ten-mile area of each other, exchanging ideas, films and performances. A vibrant community was born and so was The Downtown Scene. Best described as ‘noisy but disciplined’, the fusion of sounds and sub-cultures (ranging from disco, post-punk, new wave, hip-hop and avant-garde), that were shared between the dilapidated lofts and cheap warehouse spaces, still seem radical and relevant as ever.
From the music to the films, we’ll be your ultimate Downtown guides. We’ll be zipping from The Kitchen to the Paradise Garage, taking a cab to Max’s Kansas City to CBGB’s and then we’ll catch a movie and head to the Roxy. And hopefully, we’ll squeeze some more in between. So, what are you waiting for? Let’s go Downtown!
But first, here’s a little something to get you in the mood…
i wanna go now!!! can we go back in time too??