Richard Strange
Punk-pioneering composer
Musician, composer, nightclub host, actor, writer and adventurer, since Richard Strange's proto-punk rock band The Doctors of Madness was first unleashed in 1975, he has made films with Tim Burton, Neil Jordan and Martin Scorsese. He wrote music for contemporary dance companies in the Eighties and was European editor of the avant-garde Art Line magazine. He toured the world in a Russian 'Hamlet' and appeared in several episodes of the highly successful 'Men Behaving Badly'. For two seemingly endless years he played a snooty English butler in Gottschalks HausParty, an appalling German TV show. His rumbustious and unpredictable life has led him to cross paths with characters as diverse as the Sex Pistols and Princess Diana, John Cleese, Grace Jones and Damien Hirst. In 1980 he founded the mixed-media Cabaret Futura, and he recently revived it as a montly cultural night at the Paradise by way of Kensal Green, London. Until recently, all that was missing from his colourful resumé was reviewing a Smith hotel.
Richard Strange anonymously reviewed the following hotels: