Description
The Jacquard Club
Norwich
A3 Poster (420mm x297). Digitally printed onto fine 250gsm uncoated card.
Sent Royal Mail signed, packed in a tube.
The Jacquard club was a mainstay for alternative music in Norwich from the 1960s right through until the 1990s. Initially started by the Cooper Brothers in the Mischief Tavern in 1964, it outgrew the venue and eventually moved to its own premises on Magdalen Street taking over and converting both floors of the White Lion public house in 1971 which had stood unused for 5 years. It remained a venue for Folk, Soul, and Blues until around 1978. Under new management the club then became a hiding place for Norwich punks to celebrate their own subculture, shifting with the times, it became a home to Norwich’s goths and the alternative scene generally, both as a nightclub and as a venue, it also hosted a gay club and continued with occasional soul and blues nights into the mid- to late-1980s, briefly the name changed to Santana’s then flipped back to the Jacquard. It was so named after Albert Coopers early band The Jacquards. Damaged by fire it closed briefly, then reopened again, finally closing its doors in 1992.
The poster is a repro version of an original poster dating from around 1964. This was created from an ancient damaged copy, using hand-drawn and adapted digital typefaces to mimic the original, the portrait image is of Joseph Marie Jacquard; the inventor of the Jacquard Loom, synonymous with some of the weaving Strangers who made Norwich their home.