FOR all those club-goers of a certain age, the name Jeff Scott is fairly legendary in Colchester.

The DJ has been spinning the discs, predominantly at the Colchester Arts Centre, for more than 20 years.

After a groundswell of nostalgia for a certain club night to return, he’s back at his musical spiritual home with Freak Show.

Freak Show came about in the mid-1980s when Jeff and friends, Gus Stanton and Michael Harper (Pickle), decided to put on an alternative music night.

Jeff says: “There was already a Sixties/Seventies disco taking place, so Gus had this idea to do our own night there.

“He was a lighting designer who had this huge warehouse in Cambridge and the arts centre had a new sound system, which rivalled the Hippodrome at the time.

“We knew we could put on a really good show.”

Posters were produced by local artist Lisa Temple Cox and as the club night went on, these became an integral part of the cult night. It is why, when Jeff decided to bring back Freak Show, he asked Lisa to do the latest posters.

The first Freak Show took place in 1987, at the height of the goth scene, with acts like the Cure and Sisters of Mercy dominating the trend.

At its height, the club was attracting more than 500 people, but after a run of five years, the organisers decided to call it a day.

Jeff went on to DJ at the arts centre’s Friday Night Fever, which ran for just over seven years, until 2007, but it was after signing up to a Facebook page that the idea of resurrecting the Freak Show came about.

Jeff says: “Eventually talk turned to the Freak Show and the possibility of bringing it back and with the arts centre celebrating its 30th anniversary, I thought why not.”

With entry prices set at 1980s levels, it will be just £2 to get into the Freak Show on April 9, which will run from 8pm to 2am.

For more information, call the arts centre on 01206 500900.