From his first gig running the door for a Mafia-owned club with a propensity for violence, to his apogee as The Manhattan club scene's curator of cool, Tommy Gunn has the juiciest stories in town.
Tommy's your man if you want to know anything about the NYC club scene of the '80s & '90s. In its heyday, he ran the show at iconic venues like am/pm, Cat Club, Sanctuary, and the Palladium. Mention any celebrity of the time, and Tommy will have a story. Hell, he'll have five.
He recently stopped by Poster House's pop up show Gone Tomorrow, an exhibition on view through Nov. 1 featuring over 119 posters and handbills from venues in NYC that have since closed. Walking around the space, Tommy could barely go two feet without seeing a poster and having a tale to tell - how he turned a dead fish of a club into the hottest spot in town; how he flipped a New Age space into a punk haven; the brawls; the shady business practices; who was doing what, where, with whom. He could talk for days.Videos