Trevor Watson’s Ocean Beach Art Show

by Reviewer Rob

Trevor Watson is the founder of Revolt In Style magazine and a person well-known among a certain San Diego crowd. Lesser known but still of importance in Lynn O’Rourke, the mother of Zombie Club DJ Wendy and Trevor’s former co-promoter from the 1980’s that he started Club iD with, at a bar called Cunningham’s, that Trev says was on Miramar Road, shortly after he arrived from England, where he was born and raised.

Club iD was San Diego’s first New Wave Dance Club that brought Brit-Euro club style DJ-ing to what was then provincial, backwatery San Diego in the post-punk/disco early-Reagan era. San Diego may still be a second run town for club trends but there’s tons of dance clubs now as well as quite a few “cool/hip” scene magazine’s of the category that Revolt In Style filled when it was the first and only publication of its kind here.

On the night of February 16th Trevor opened his art show in the old Bank Of America vault inside Rock Paper Scissors on Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach. At this I shot a video, a clip of the beginning of which I’ve posted at http://youtube.com/reviewer (right here) and also a few photos that are mixed in with frame grabs here.

The guy with the two dogs is Guy Lombardo, who is also a judo/jui-jitsu expert (I’ve been told he’s a blackbelt) and known art community fixture around these parts.

Everyone agreed that it was “good to see Trevor creating again.”

(SoCal trivia: Lynn is the sister of a California surfscene icon, 1970’s champion competitive surfer and La Jolla-Windansea local Chris O’Rourke.)

~RR


2 thoughts on “Trevor Watson’s Ocean Beach Art Show

  1. Honestly, my long-lost uncle making an arse of himself, but for the best possible reason,obviously!

  2. Hi Trevor,

    I timely theme!

    I’m Doug from Two Towers. This is the only way I could find to leave a message. I hope I got the right Trevor and the right website.

    My contact info.: entropy2000@cox.net phone: 480-694-1004

    Yer Pal,

    Doug.

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