Breathtaking displays at London’s most exotic club night
29.06.2022 - 17:25
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Take a look at how celebrity nightlife has changed in the last 50 years with celebrity nightclub owner Ryan Bish. Steve Rubell opened the infamous Studio 54 nightclub in New York in 1977. The club garnered a reputation for its celebrity guests, excessive club-drug usage, open sexual activity, and exclusive entry requirements.
It was known worldwide as the place to be at the peak of disco: its most famous frequenters included David Bowie, Debbie Harry, Mick Jagger, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Michael Jackson, and Cher to name just a few. Today's top celebrity nightclub owner is Ryan Bish, whose company Cream Group owns a range of different venues across London. Although the venues are much less salacious than Steve Rubell’s, Bish is the pioneer of innovative, exclusive, unique, celebrity clubbing.
Some of his venue’s guests include Kanye West, Drake, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kendall Jenner, Jamie Foxx, and the Kardashians. So how has celebrity nightlife changed in the last 50 years, and how does the outlook of Ryan Bish differ from Steve Rubell?Immersive nightlife in the 70s versus the 2020sSteve Rubell contracted two expert lighting designers, Jules Fisher and Paul Marantz, to create the dancefloor in Studio 54. They utilised the previous theatre equipment to make moveable sets on the existing TV circuits and fly systems.
The result was an immersive clubbing experience, with constantly changing and dynamic lighting. The inside of Studio 54 was unique. Converted from a theatre in only six weeks, it still had many stripped-back aspects of its previous use.