Peter Stringfellow talks of how the Mojo Club originally became decorated with art, “Realising the club looked a little austere, I painted African warrior dancers with full headdress and tiled mirrors for eyes, the reason being I couldn’t paint real people. The effect was surreal and looked great.”

This look through the history of pop art in Sheffield includes the famous Mojo Club as well as The Ark Club, Broadway, The Penthouse, Chesterfield’s Victoria Ballroom and even the C&A shop. It is a real slice of local history.

The book also looks at the artists who produced this art and looks at how it affected them. Paul Norton says of his days painting the King Mojo club, “Sometimes I can still smell the paint and hear the music.”

Through looking at how the pop art developed within these clubs we see how culture developed from gangster art painted on the walls, to psychedelic and flower power art. 

The book contains posters, adverts and membership cards from the clubs as well as pictures of paintings on the walls. These paintings ranged from the original African Warriors and stunning flower power murals of Medusa in Mojo to the biblical murals in The Ark Club.

These clubs gave many young artists the chance to express their creativity as well as a fantastic sight to the many people and famous faces who visited them. So, Pop Art of Sheffield’s King Mojo is an important piece of Sheffield history and will be a welcome walk down memory lane for anyone who remembers it as well as a stunning collection of art for anyone seeing them for the first time.