What exactly is Torture Garden?

Torture Garden may be the World’s largest Fetish / Body Art Club. Events Attract 800 – 2500 individuals month-to-month to various London venues, with occasional Overseas trip occasions throughout the World.

TG can also be a top latex fetish fashion Label, manufacturing Company and Performance Agency.

History

Alan Pelling and David Wood formed Torture Garden as a Fetish Club in Oct 1990. Alan’s background ended up being being a alternate club promoter & DJ ¬ a new comer to London, and David’s had been a conceptual art & movie graduate who had previously been planning to fetish groups since 1984. Together these were tired of the current retro alternative groups and residential district design fetish groups. They wished to produce a fresh variety of radical & edgy alternative fetish club that combined diverse & modern music, numerous surroundings, fashion, performance, visuals, installments, market area and much more. 100 individuals stumbled on the first occasion at the Opera regarding the Green place in a shopping precinct in Shepherds Bush on a Wednesday evening, but because of the fifth there have been 500 also it had been rammed! By this time around TG had developed its very own unique crowd that combined the choice post Goth / Industrial, hard-core SM, Fetish Fashion and Gay & directly scenes, aided by the completely new Body Art / Piercing scenes. There was clearly no other audience and club into the global globe want it! Charlotte Hellicar joined up with TG Productions complete amount of time in 2003 as business manger after shortly employed by TG Clothing and having been TGs “doorbitch” for several years, and Yasmin Kay became area of the group in 2018

In-may 2019 David left the club to maneuver to nyc, but continues to be associated with archive jobs having been the innovative manager associated with the business for pretty much 3 years

Why Torture Garden and TG?

Torture Garden had been known as following the 1899 novel The Torture Garden (Le Jardin des supplices) by Octave Mirbeau, that was emerge A chinese yard of torture. We decided on it more due to the exotic and mystical pictures so it evoked, as opposed to the certain novel it self. From the beginning we frequently shortened Torture Garden to TG, since it ended up being reduced and didn’t frighten the financial institution supervisor! Nonetheless it has also been a guide of impact to an early on TG – Throbbing Gristle ¬ the seminal industrial experimentalists and founders of Psychic TV, Temple Ov Psychic Youth, Coil, Chris n Cosey etc. TG’s group logo had been literally encouraged by the back of a lorry for a rainy motorway drive sexy housewife! Keep attention away in France?

Venue Development

After the Opera in the Green launch, TG discovered brand brand new long-lasting houses at renowned industrial factory The Electrowerkz therefore the 4 flooring Paradise Club (later on changed towards the involved) before celebrating its 4th Birthday at super club ¬ Ministry of Sound. Because the crowd expanded from 700 to 1200+ this is TG’s most revolutionary and initial duration as there is an explosion of skill and imagination into the scene. Fetish ended up being now stylish and much more appropriate towards the main-stream, also it never ever seemed straight straight back. Other important TG venues included the Leisure Lounge before it discovered its home that is longest at transformed Church location Mass through the belated 90’s until 2013. In 2002 & 2003 TG celebrated its Birthday event with 2500 individuals at London’s massive Brixton Academy, then expanded its Valentines, Halloween and Birthday Balls to massive 2600+ sell out occasions at 7 space SeOne before the place shut this season. In modern times numbers going to each vary depending on the season and so TG uses a variety of venues to suit the scale and also to keep the experience fresh and changing month.

With London’s constant evolution of venues starting and shutting down, TG has adjusted our events to match every form of room from the 1919 World War 1 ship the HMS President, until the Coronet theatre with an enormous 2500 ability. Present venues that are favourite the Electrowerkz in Angel islington and also the Scala in Kings Cross