ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the personal stories of cultural innovation before going on to consider the problematic relationship between the strategic developments of the night-time economy and south view Challenge Company Limited (SCCL). The Challenge funding was implicated in the growth and influence of one syndicate in particular and unfortunately for the programme, one that could not have been more orientated towards displeasing local sentiments. The chapter illustrates the nightlife and popular culture in this Labour dominated borough was viewed with suspicion and attempts were made to make life difficult for cultural entrepreneurs. The onset of the post-industrial economy created two new dynamics: licensed premises found that the climate had changed towards opening times and to their role in general, indeed being hailed as an important economic driver in the local 'night-time economy', and the rationale of the post-industrial economy was to absorb new spaces into economic reproduction, to colonise the excluded.
