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Poolhouse is joined by Fleeing California & den mother to the Lost Boys of backklash, the witty, insightful, and absolutely gorgeous white POC mommy-anon Spendy O. Williams, for a very special FLASHBACKK to the (retro)future episode.

Spendy is truly a dear friend of the pod–she’s one of our earliest guests. She also happens to be a former High Priestess of Punk, and possesses considerably informed opinions on music and culture.

Poolhouse and Spendy read Meet Me in the Bathroom, an oral history chronicling the turn of the century rocknroll zeitgeist that produced The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem and more. It is an era both Poolhouse and Spendy are intimately familiar with, as they lived it.

As PH and Spendy discovered in previous HCTB appearances, Poolhouse and Spendy are both diskopunk veterans of CLUB FAKE, the legendary underground west coast hotspot during that glittering utopian moment that was (not) called electroclash.

Poolhouse and Spendy almost certainly rubbed shoulders within the intimacy of underground “electro” (which was code for ‘cool dance music for rocknroll people’ back then) nightclubs like Fake, Popscene, The Finger, and more. They were there when the garage-rock-disco-punk revival hit San Francisco. But both were left a bit underwhelmed by the picture that MMITB painted of their shared history..so they decide to make their own!

Dust off your skinny tie and trucker cap, put on your best striped shirt and nighttime shades, and lace up your Doc Martins or Converse, because in this is very special FLASHBACKK episode, we are going on a JOURNEYY thru space and time... in which these two spunky, punky club kid veterans invite you to meet them on the cosmic dancefloor (when you’re done in the bathroom) for disco-pogo punked and pumped edition of HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH, where we go back to the dirty, dingy, sketchy, skeezy roots of so-called indie sleaze…..

Meet Me in the Bathroom

Episode Hit Parade:

Linda Lamb - Hot Room (Tiga Remix) [poolhouse 12” collection]

Annie - Greatest Hit

Fischerspooner - Emerge [poolhouse 12” collection]

LCD Soundsystem - Beat Connection [poolhouse 12” collection]

The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers [poolhouse 12” collection]

Sparks - Rock n Roll People in a Disco World

Ladytron - Playgirl (Felix da Housecat thee Glitz Remix)

Here Comes the ULTRAMEGASHOWNOTES

THE SKEEZY SF ROOTS OF INDIE SLEAZE

Club Fake

backklash fanzine is the original incarnation of HERE COMES THE BACKKLASH. originally styled [backklash] (everyone was very annoying like then, trust me it wasn’t just me@) my DIY publication I fired up in ‘02 at the height of electromania, when myself and a cohort of breakaway scenesters defected from Santa Cruz indie rock, and began making our weekly pilgrimages to the Big City (first to Popscene, then Club Fake..and then we took over The Whole Damn Scene!)

I am not even joking you when I say that backklash definitely had an influence on the scene. You can see it in the evolution of the flier art, I am telling you!

‘I USED TO FAKE IT.’ a goodbye to the clubfake era from a dedicated disciple. (originally published in the pages of _backklash_ c. 2005)

330 Ritch / Popscene

330 Ritch eventually surrendered its entertainment license after a shooting. Popscene moved to the Rickshaw Stop.

https://abc7news.com/archive/9040750/

The Arrow Bar / The Finger

The Arrow Bar was a smaller venue in SoMa where the Club Fake promoters (DJ Omar and Jenny) put on a weekly Thursday night dance party that constituted Club Fake’s inner sanctum.

Sixxteen (a weekly rock club from the Club Fake crew)

The Purple Onion

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13848445/remembering-tom-guido-purple-onion-manager-and-sf-counterculture-legend

Li Po Lounge

1015 Folsom

111 Minna

The Blank Club / Atomic

International Deejay Gigolos

This fucking CD changed my life…there is no HCTB had I not purchased this compilation.

Electroclash / Larry Tee

Clashbackk

Carlos from Interpol

Rodney Bingenheimer

The west coast roots of British indie disco on the west coast go back to the Sunset Strip glam rock era (1970s), when Rodney on the Roq (KROQ) opened English Disco.

I WAS THERE™ w. Oso & Poolhouse - Live on X Spaces

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