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"I wanted to just one of The Strokes ," croons Alex Turner in the opening line of the Arctic Monkeys ' latest album.

He was not the only one.

The skinny-jeaned New York are at the top of The Last big sale of the local music scene (only London grime come close to since), as the himself, and bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, Lcd Soundsystem and Vampire Weekend transported their early noughties sound of Manhattan dive bars to arenas and Record stores around The World .

Now, a new art installation brings the most influential scene back to life, in All its dirty glory.

Meet Me in The Bathroom : The art Show, based on Lizzy Goodman 2017 book with the same name, the included are first-hand and often conflicting accounts of the frenetic post-punk-revival, which, during a time of great social upheaval for The City .

Goodman, a friend of Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi since your teenage, speaks to the BBC through The Show , and why the era still means so much to so many.

The Exhibition is located at The Hole gallery in the Bowery/East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, suitable opposite, where the music Club CBGB Stand Made famous by the original punks The Ramones Once .

your goal is to replicate "a disgusting super-Hammer-dive bar on Second Avenue with the famous foul toilets," where The City 's young bands, artists, and creative types would hang.

The Celebration of this "Outpost for strangeness" and "safe spaces for the pursuit of debauchery" was an integral part of The Project .

"to capture The Essence of what we try to do here," says Goodman, "is to Create a space where you remember the freedom can behave really next to it, for better or for worse, in a strange safe place. "

The Strokes and their contemporaries built their Reputation playing such venues at a time when music-download-technology is still in its infancy and Social Media was little more than a glint in Tom from Myspace's eye.

Looking Back on it now, the writer turned to the curator believes they were unknowingly part of The Last generation of Young People free from the "eternal documentation eye in the Sky . "

"It was not to be seen this feeling of being, All the time, and I think that's part of the reason why The Show connects," she adds.

"many of these bands had a lot of ambition, but not a whole lot of expectation, and were then propelled to this level of underground fame. No one was by The Rolling Stones or Coldplay, but you did very well, and that was unexpected.

"But there is also the second level, which is now everyone is watching All the time. Let's look at - I tell a story about my day Every Day on Instagram and it was a time that was so far from The Realm of the possible that there exists a special kind of freedom that. "

Goodman is interested to see how the children are in the bands of today, "the recording, the feeling of the cultural, the Big Brother in The Work you're doing," in a similar way, you document your own era.

After the Director and curator Hala Matar convinced Goodman to transform their words into art, the main thing, what your heart desires, the acquisition of What's Eating Karen O dress, designed by Christian Joy for the eccentric Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman.

The Acid -green "reformed Prom Dress ", according to Goodman, "pretty nasty in this really extraordinary arrest," and no longer symbolizes the freshness that was in spite of The City , which had said for years, punk a long time ago.

"There's this feeling of power, the ugliness, fear, darkness, and discomfort is being heralded as on par with All The Other flavors of The Power that you are looking for, if you are, art," she explains.

"A taste of power, beauty and strength. How Beyonce ' s waving hair is in a Phase-to-fan is a kind of expression of power is-and it's nice because it feels strong and it's going to get arrested.

"But that is only part of the range of what you want to paint, and challenging, to see what we expect to be on the stage with their physical appearance - they show sadness, ugliness and discomfort - these are really important tools in the direction of the final goal to make people feel something. "

Goodman, recalls a witness to Karen O water in oil, and spat the beer All over the Mercury Lounge stage in front of a handful of people, on the way to "invent a persona, which would then connect with millions. "

"The idea of a young female Rock Star with her equally talented young friend [joy] tracks ugliness aware of as part of the platform, what you get is just really cool to me. "

The stops" groundbreaking debut album, Is This It, came just a few months before the 9/11 attacks, which killed thousands of people and would go on to shape the story of 21St Century world politics.

The Event was a "violent, destructive and traumatic" backdrop for All That followed.

"the formed bands by kids in an era, And Then at the beginning of their early youth realized in a very dramatic way, that she says were going to die, and that everyone was around you to die and your city could be smoldering," Goodman.

"It was kind of inspiring in its sense of the Destruction . "I go to Seven Nights a week, not Five Nights in the week' and also in the sense of 'I've not had as much time as I thought, so I'm not going to sit around for the next five years, the half-ass plays in my band and working in the Cafeteria. I'm going to stay Until Dawn every night with my friends, trying to Record this Album. '"

"'And I will go into a Bar, 13, and dance and drink, as Karen O says in the book, like, 20 cosmopolitans and do knee-slides on The Bar the whole night, because, Why Not ?'"

she hopes that you will watch The Show and you take it out of NYC, and the United Kingdom, and in addition, soon, just like her famous friends bands did All those years ago.

"is The idea of how we use this energy in a bottle and bring it to other places, so that it feels authentic in these places?"

Meet Me in The Bathroom : The Exhibition runs until 22 September .

Source of news: bbc.com