Gustav Temple spends an afternoon sipping fizz with bon vivant, cabaret performer, dapper chanteur and host of the Candlelight Club. Photos by Soulstealer Photography. When your parents named you Champagne Charlie, was this because they were fans of the music hall performer George Leybourne?I wouldn’t have thought they had any idea who George Leybourne was.…
Chris Sullivan on how the end of WWI and the Spanish Flu pandemic brought about the birth of nightclub culture in 1920s London. The nightclub ethos as we now perceive it, with bars and dance floors on which men and women actually dance together, began in the 1920s. Before the era, aptly named the Jazz…
