To the Groucho Club(① 历史背景：Groucho Club成...)! Where else could Tate Britain, an art gallery, announce an upcoming exhibition on “The 90s”? Three decades ago, the Soho haunt(常去的地方；出没地) was the centre of British cultural life. It is mentioned 42 times in “Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and all that”, a luvvies’ history(文艺界人士写的历史) of the era. “I’ve never seen Grouchos in the daytime,” says Edward Enninful, a former editor-in-chief of British Vogue, who is curating the exhibition, in front of a big picture of Kate Moss, a 1990s supermodel. The town house at 45 Dean Street is a corner of Soho that is forever 1995.
去格鲁乔俱乐部吧！泰特英国美术馆宣布即将举办一场关于“90年代”的展览，还能有别的选择吗？三十年前，这个苏豪区的热门地点曾是英国文化生活的中心。在《比炮弹还快：1995年及其余波》这本关于那个时代的文艺界历史书中，它被提到了42次。“我从没在白天见过格鲁乔俱乐部，”前英国版《Vogue》主编、现任展览策展人爱德华·恩宁弗说，他正站在凯特·摩丝（1990年代超模）的大幅照片前。这座位于迪恩街45号的联排别墅，是苏豪区一个永远停留在1995年的角落。
What about those who spent their Saturday nights at home during the 1990s, rather than falling out of(醉醺醺地从某处出来) the Groucho? A skim(粗略浏览；快速阅读) through the television listings of the time reveals a different decade. They were dominated by Jim Davidson, a right-wing comic who specialised in impressions of black people and harmless smut. “Big Break”, a snooker game show Mr Davidson presented, attracted up to 14m viewers. A rebooted “Jim Davidson’s Generation Game” was the BBC(① 基本介绍：BBC（British B...)’s main Saturday-night offer from 1995.
那些在1990年代周六晚上呆在家里、而不是从格鲁乔俱乐部醉醺醺出来的人呢？快速浏览一下当时的电视节目表，就会看到一个不同的十年。电视被吉姆·戴维森主宰，一位以模仿黑人和无害黄色笑话为专长的右翼喜剧演员。他主持的斯诺克游戏节目《大突破》吸引了多达1400万观众。1995年起，重启版的《吉姆·戴维森的世代游戏》是BBC周六晚间的主打节目。
If the 1990s are alive in the Groucho, they are still breathing at the Circus Tavern, a venue next door to a petrol station outside Purfleet, where Mr Davidson takes the stage beneath a disco ball. Mr Davidson warms up the crowd of 440 with a slanderous(诽谤性的，造谣中伤的) attack on the state of the women in nearby Canvey Island(① 地理：坎维岛是英格兰埃塞克斯郡泰晤士...). “No wonder you’ve not got a great deal of illegal immigrants here. There’s no one to sexually assault!” It is still 1995 here, too.
如果说1990年代在格鲁乔俱乐部是鲜活的，那么它们在珀弗利特郊外一家加油站隔壁的马戏团酒馆里则还在呼吸，戴维森先生就是在那里一个迪斯科球下登台的。戴维森先生用对附近坎维岛女性状况的诽谤性攻击来为440名观众暖场。“难怪你们这里没有多少非法移民。都没人可性侵的！”这里也仍然是1995年。
Tired of Purfleet, tired of life
厌倦珀弗利特，就是厌倦生活