Torture Garden
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| Type of Club: |
|---|
| Dance (clubbing) |
| Active or defunct: |
| Active |
| Venue: |
| Varies, check website. |
| Contact: |
| tg@torturegarden.com |
| Website: |
| www.torturegarden.com |
Torture Garden is the world's largest Fetish / Body Art Club. Events attract 800 – 2600+ people monthly to various London venues.
TG is also a top latex fetish fashion label (Torture Garden Clothing) and a production / performance agency.
History
Alan Pelling and David Wood formed Torture Garden as a Fetish Club in Oct 1990.
Alan's background was as an alternative club promoter & DJ – new to London, and David's was a conceptual art & film graduate who had been going to fetish clubs since 1984. Together they were bored with the existing retro alternative clubs and suburban style fetish clubs. They wanted to create a new kind of radical alternative fetish club that combined diverse & progressive music, multiple environments, fashion, performance, visuals, installations, market area and more.
100 people came to the first event at the Opera On The Green venue in a shopping precinct in Shepherds Bush on a Thursday night, but by the 5th there were 500 and it was rammed! By this time TG had developed it's own unique crowd that combined the Alternative post Goth / Industrial, hard-core SM, Fetish Fashion and Gay & Straight scenes, with the totally new Body Art / Piercing scenes.
Early shows included body ritual by Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth, experimental percussion by Zev, music by Death In June & Boyd Rice and performance by Archaos Circus. There was no other club in the world like it!
