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Sweat, Endless Pints, and Feathered Hair: Photos from a Seaside UK Club in the Pre-Rave 80s

These photos illustrate that the way we drink in the UK hasn’t really changed for the past 30 years, and that’s almost comforting.

via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/photos-partying-merseyside-1980s-before-rave

These film photos, shot from 1984 to 1987 in a Merseyside club by photographer Tom Wood, show as much. He collated them into book Looking for Love, released in 1989. “I first picked up the book in the college library in Farnham circa 1992, and my belly rolled over at the greatness of it,” wrote fellow photographer Gareth McConnell, in the introduction to his own book: Looking for Looking for Love.

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