Handbags at the ready
An institution of Dublin’s 1990s and 2000s club scene, Strictly Handbag was the brainchild of one of the city’s most precocious promoters. With a one-off revival happening at the end of this month, Ruth O’Connor looks back on the heady days of the club and pays tribute to its founder Martin Thomas
‘In the mid-1990s, thanks to the reputation of the Haçienda, I’d got used to DJing in places like Berlin and Paris, but every time I got the call from Martin Thomas to play Strictly Handbag I’d be charmed ...
