Men Behaving Badly signalled the start of ‘Lad Culture’ - we just didn’t see it - The Irish Times

Men Behaving Badly signalled the start of ‘Lad Culture’ - we just didn’t see it The Irish Times

Thirty years ago, I worked at a theatre box office in London’s West End. Of an evening, staff from rival houses would gather for drinks in the “Italian End” of the Coach and Horses. This fellow was designing a board game. This lady was planning to escape to Australia. Many were doomed to tend Soho’s graveyard of ambition until the time came to enter a less metaphorical resting place. One bloke from the Prince Edward Theatre (if I recall correctly) really was going somewhere. He was called Simon and he’d had a novel accepted by Penguin. The book came out to decent reviews and respectable sal...