Party / residency · cross-linked record

Skafish Show / Sid Vicious Incident (December 1978)

A recurring night threaded through the atlas. A party often outlives any single room, tracing it across addresses is one way the atlas connects eras.

Rooms it touched

Hurrah

1976–1981 · Lincoln Square, Manhattan

ClosedClub

During a Skafish set, Sid Vicious attacked Todd Smith (Patti Smith's younger brother); Vicious was arrested and remanded to Rikers Island for two months. The incident accelerated his physical decline in the period leading to his overdose death on February 2, 1979.