Soft Cell (Oversized Graphic with Vintage Print Effect) Size:XL Texas) — 1970s–1980s

Texas) — 1970s–1980s

Banned and celebrated in equal measure

even in the dark

Bijou Theater – Chicago T-ShirtOpened: 1970 • Closed: 2015

Soft Cell (Oversized Graphic with Vintage Print Effect) Size:XL Texas) — 1970s–1980sSoft Cell In the early 1980s, Soft Cell brought the darker corners of club culture into the pop spotlight. Fronted by Marc Almond, the duo fused icy synths with sleazy glamour, queer subtext, and emotional extremitysongs that felt at home in both underground clubs and on the radio. Tainted Love may have made them ubiquitous, but the aesthetic was always sharper, stranger, and more confrontational than mainstream pop suggested.