Rusty Egan

Rusty Egan started as a runner in DJM studios and then at WEA Records. He teamed up with former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock, Steve New and Midge Ure, to form The Rich Kids, and in 1978 they released their first album Ghosts of Princes in Towers to critical acclaim and chart success. He met Steve Strange on the Rich Kids tours, and Egan had the idea for a club night at the soho club Billy’s for fashionable Punks playing the music they both loved. In 1979, they relocated their club night to the Blitz in Covent Garden, where Egan found himself at the epicentre of what soon became known as the New Romantic movement. Midge Ure and Egan started working together on Visage. Steve Strange was brought in to be the face and voice, with the line-up completed by keyboardist Billy Currie and three-fifths of the post-punk band Magazine – guitarist John McGeoch, keyboardist Dave Formula and bassist Barry Adamson.

Rusty opened the hugely successful Camden Palace nightclub in London with Steve Strange and he continued to spread and influence the development of electronica in the UK and founded Metropolis Music – a publishing and production company - making the music instead of just playing it.

Rusty’s album Welcome To The Dancefloor, was released in 2017, featuring guest appearances from Midge Ure, Tony Hadley and Peter Hook and in June 2024 Demon Records released the first ever truly curated, definitive Box Set of the music that was played by Rusty in the legendary Blitz Club in 1979-1980.

He is still regularly DJing and in 2025 will be releasing a new album to coincide with the Design Museum’s Blitz Club Exhibition, centred of course, around Rusty.