Club Life: Return to Devil Mountain

Published on the occasion of Fred Deakin and Neil Cooper's talk at Fruitmarket about Deakin's Summerhall Club Life show on 8 August, 2023, this is a limited edition publication featuring poster and flyer artwork, and text from Neil Cooper and an interview with Fred Deakin. 

Fred Deakin fell in love with clubbing as a teenager and spent years running strange and wonderful club nights in London and Edinburgh, including several in the building that now makes up half of the Fruitmarket. These formative adventures in clubland shaped his subsequent career as artist, professor and half of electronica duo Lemon Jelly. 

Fred Deakin’s clubs always seemed to be the place to be during my early days in Edinburgh. This was the case from the black polo-necked nouveau Beat stylings of nu-jazz night, Blue, all the way through to the retro-cool dressed-up vintage hedonism of Easy Listening institution, Going Places. In between came the epic spectacles of Thunderball and Devil Mountain, and my favourite, Misery.