Torture Garden
| 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. Its monthly events attract 800 – 2600+ people to various London venues.
TG is also a top latex clothing 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 October 1990.
Alan's background was as an alternative club promoter and DJ – new to London, and David's was a conceptual art and 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 and 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 fifth there were 500 and it was crammed! By this time, TG had developed its 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!
Fashion Show
- Bal des Supplices, September 25th, 2010, Lyon (France)
- Bal des Supplices, September 29th, 2007, Lyon (France)
