Music interview: Optimo's evolution from cult Glasgow club to global phenomenon
In the pantheon of legendary nightclubbing anecdotes, it’s pretty hard to beat Bianca Jagger riding through New York’s Studio 54 disco on a white horse (even if, as the animal rights campaigner has subsequently claimed, she merely perched on a pony which was already provided).
But Glasgow’s Optimo can boast its own lo-fi equivalent. As the internationally renowned club is poised to celebrate its 20th birthday with a day-long fiesta of live acts and DJs, founders JD Twitch and JG Wilkes, aka Keith McIvor and Jonnie Wilkes, recall hiring a white horse prop from the BBC for one of their early Hallowe’en extravaganzas. “No Bianca Jagger – she wasn’t available,” notes McIvor.
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