16 02 08 178 W - + 2 - 1 Ashes To Ashes Gets Blitzed

This week’s Ashes To Ashes (the BBC’s time-travelling ‘80s detective drama) ventures into The Blitz Club - the squalid little club which was once at the heart of the whole New Romantic thing. The recreation of The Blitz on the show wasn’t bad - it managed to convey the grimy, sweaty claustrophobia of the place. The show got one thing very wrong though - the rich geezer in the white jacket would never have been let into the place. The dress code was stricter than Lady’s Day at Ascot - and middle-aged men in white jackets were definitely not on Steve Strange’s list of desirable clientele.

Anyway, for those of you who missed it, here are almost 8 minutes from this week’s show (the Blitz segment comes about 5 minutes in - though, for some reason, minus the ‘Fade To Grey’ soundtrack - yup, that really is Steve Strange singing on the stage there)...

And, for the sake of comparison, here’s a glimpse of the original ‘80s Blitz...

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