SCANTS 180 FOX STREET JHB
Scants opened on the 19th August 1983 at 180 Fox Street. The owners, Stan Herson and Bruce Kennedy would later go on to open Heaven, but this was the pair’s first foray into the nightclub business.The resident Scants DJ was Andrew Wood assisted by Jannie Vermaak. Both used to DJ at Mandys, but Jannie preferred operating the lights (and later the lasers) leaving the music to Andrew. Scants was also the first club in South Africa to have lasers. They came a few months after the club opened resulting in the club also being known as SCANTS Laserdrome. The timing was perfect in catching the wave of new club music that was burning up underground and mostly gay dancefloors in Europe, USA and Canada. This was High Energy (or HI-NRG). Coming out of the ashes of disco in the late 1970s, this music was largely synth and drum machine driven influenced by more experimental disco producers like Georgio Moroder and electronic bands like Kraftwerk and Cerrone. Leaders in this new sound were produce
