Vague club, Leeds
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Vague was a regular night at The Warehouse nightclub
in Leeds
, West Yorkshire
, England
, from 1993 to 1996. It was originated by Suzy Mason and Paul Fryer (former lead-singer with Yorkshire based Eighties electro pop outfit Bazooka Joe), in association with Nick Raphael, as the former High Flyers club in Leeds on 10 April 1993, moving to The Warehouse a month later. Resident DJs over the years included Fryer and Raphael as "TWA" (variously styled as "Trannies With Attitude" or "The World is Androgynous"), Phil Faversham, Curtis Zack, Daisy & Havoc and Anne Savage
.
The club is credited as being the first in the UK to advertise itself as "mixed" - i.e. for heterosexual
, bisexual
, and homosexual patrons equally - although vetting of customers on the door was notoriously strict. Once inside, the atmosphere inside was one of tolerance, hedonism
, and sexuality
. It played a mixture of handbag house, hard house and hard trance
music, with a more eclectic selection of music upstairs. TWA's self-description was "techno disco" or "tesko" (for legal reasons).
In February 1996 a boxed double compilation CD - Vague - Now & Then - was released, its accompanying booklet detailing the history of the club. The night ended after Vague celebrated its third birthday at the Warehouse on 14 September 1996. Soon afterwards, Mason and Kas Shaw started a similar mixed night - styled as "I-Spy" - at the larger Club NATO in Leeds city centre, before transferring it to the Warehouse on 12 April 1997. Soon afterwards it was renamed "Speed Queen," which continues to the present day.
Nightclub
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in Leeds
Leeds
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, West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
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, England
England
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, from 1993 to 1996. It was originated by Suzy Mason and Paul Fryer (former lead-singer with Yorkshire based Eighties electro pop outfit Bazooka Joe), in association with Nick Raphael, as the former High Flyers club in Leeds on 10 April 1993, moving to The Warehouse a month later. Resident DJs over the years included Fryer and Raphael as "TWA" (variously styled as "Trannies With Attitude" or "The World is Androgynous"), Phil Faversham, Curtis Zack, Daisy & Havoc and Anne Savage
Anne Savage (DJ)
Anne Savage is a UK hard dance DJ.-Early life:Savage was born in Burnley, Lancashire and raised in the Ribble Valley. She attended, the private Westholme School. She took classical guitar lessons at an early age. In the late 1980s she played guitar in a punk band called 53rd State.-Career:Savage...
.
The club is credited as being the first in the UK to advertise itself as "mixed" - i.e. for heterosexual
Homosexuality
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, bisexual
Bisexuality
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, and homosexual patrons equally - although vetting of customers on the door was notoriously strict. Once inside, the atmosphere inside was one of tolerance, hedonism
Hedonism
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, and sexuality
Human sexual behavior
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. It played a mixture of handbag house, hard house and hard trance
Hard trance
Hard trance is a subgenre of trance music that originated in Western Europe in the mid-1990s as the breakbeat hardcore production community began to diversify into new and different styles of electronic music, all influenced by UK hard house, happy hardcore and jungle/drum & bass...
music, with a more eclectic selection of music upstairs. TWA's self-description was "techno disco" or "tesko" (for legal reasons).
In February 1996 a boxed double compilation CD - Vague - Now & Then - was released, its accompanying booklet detailing the history of the club. The night ended after Vague celebrated its third birthday at the Warehouse on 14 September 1996. Soon afterwards, Mason and Kas Shaw started a similar mixed night - styled as "I-Spy" - at the larger Club NATO in Leeds city centre, before transferring it to the Warehouse on 12 April 1997. Soon afterwards it was renamed "Speed Queen," which continues to the present day.