Lorenzo LSP on Leigh Bowery's Legacy and 1980s Club Culture

In an interview with Artribune, Italian DJ and promoter Lorenzo LSP reflects on the impact of Leigh Bowery and the 1980s club scene. LSP, co-founder of Latin Super Posse with Roberto Spallacci, recalls hosting Bowery at Studio Due in Turin in 1989. Bowery performed in a cabbage costume, later changing into a tampon labeled "Cunt." LSP describes Bowery as a unique neodandy who transcended gender and drag, influencing fashion designers like Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, and Gareth Pugh. Bowery collaborated with dancer Michael Clark, photographer Nick Knight, filmmaker Charles Atlas, and painter Lucian Freud, and founded the band Minty with Richard Torry. LSP contrasts the Taboo club's experimental ethos with London's gay clone scene and New York's Club Kids, noting the impact of the AIDS crisis on Bowery's later work. The interview also covers LSP's early career at Tuxedo and Studio Due, where he mixed psychobilly, new wave, and house music, and his work with Claudio Coccoluto at Pussy Galore.