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RUSTY EGAN, not only drummer and tape-loop supplier to Visage, Shock etc but one of the leading DJs of the original fashion-setting Futurist scene, last Saturday organised at London’s Rainbow the biggest New Romanticism event yet, declares that he has now retired from jocking (we’ll have to see if that’s for real!), leaving the scene to its commercialisers.

He’s such a generous guy though that he let me rummage around through his record boxes to find out what, for him at least, makes up the required material for Futurist gigs – and the result could come as a surprise! In point of fact, New Romanticism is still sufficiently ill defined for its followers to be unsure of what it is that they ought to like, so that Rusty finds whatever it is he happens to be playing at the time is what people want to buy when they hear it in his shop. Rusty’s record shop, ‘The Cage’ (conveniently next to ‘Axiom’ for stylish clothes) is in the Great Gear Market at 85 Kings Road, Chelsea.


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Dave Harwoood
08 Nov 2024 at 05:33
I found this piece in the 'Chelsea News & General Advertiser' dated 18th September 1986:
“FASHION may be fickle but over the past two decades an institution has established itself as an international landmark of street style. The "Great Gear Market" in the King’s Road has developed a world-wide reputation for trendy wear in the 21 years of its existence. But its popularity in countries as far afield as Japan comes to an end this weekend when it shuts its doors on the fashion world forever. It marks the end of an era which will be sadly missed by the market’s customers. Leaders in the field such as Boy Demob Khan and Bell Melissa Caplan, P W Forte and Review all started their business by running stalls in the market. It has also provided jobs for pop stars such as Boy George, Marilyn, Rusty Egan (who started The Cage record shop) and members of Sigue Sigue Sputnik.”

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Great Gear Market, 85 Kings Road, Chelsea. Kensington / London
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