Sports Banger Clubbing and Commune-ing T-Shirt – Firstsite Exclusive

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ESSEX

Before acid house, before Ibiza, there was Essex — a true hotbed of clubbing, where venues like The Barn in Braintree, the Goldmine on Canvey Island and Raquels in Basildon packed out dancefloors. But what became of these legendary spots, and what legacy do they leave behind? The Sports Banger T-shirt draws inspiration from Emma Edmondson and Tim Burrows’s Clubbing and Commune-ing in Essex project, which seeks to interrupt a moment of good-time decline and re-affirm the social importance of the dancefloor.

Firstsite X Sports Banger

Sports Banger, the boundary-breaking fashion collective, has designed four exclusive t-shirts for Firstsite.

Interrogating British pop culture, fashion, class, and politics through subversion and (mis)appropriation of branding, Sports Banger brings their distinctive vision to support our work.

All profits will help fund our mission to make art matter – including Holiday Fun, our vital programme providing free meals, movement, and creative activities during school holidays for families facing financial challenges.

Every shirt sold can help families stay connected, creative, and supported. Your purchase provides real support for real families.

Wear your t-shirt knowing it helps keep art free and accessible for everyone.

Sports Banger, is a genre-defying, London-based clothing brand and rag-tag fashion collective run by Jonny Banger, who interrogates British pop culture, fashion, class, and politics through the subversion and (mis)appropriation of branding.

Vogue has called their off-schedule runway shows ‘arguably the most exciting of London Fashion Week’. In 2023, Sports Banger celebrated 10 years with the book Sports Banger: Lifestyles of the Poor, Rich and Famous (Thames & Hudson)

Jonny Banger is an artist, raver and the founder of Sports Banger, a London-based clothing brand and rag-tag collective. In 2020, Jonny exhibited over 200 government letters defaced by kids and young people from across the UK at London’s Foundling Museum (where he was made a Fellow later that year) and received a Haringey Heroes Award from the Mayor of Haringey for his work. Sports Banger won the Innovation & Excellence Award at DJ Magazine’s Best of British Awards 2020. Jonny has had work exhibited at the London College of Fashion, the Museum of Applied Art (Vienna) and in other independent venues.