Arthur Baker road-tested New Order records there and made 'Planet Rock' with its dancefloor in mind, it was Madonna's launchpad as she clawed her way to stardom, and its DJ Jellybean made his name by regularly saving people's lives. With a crowd of mad-for-it boroughs kids, The Funhouse was where the new sounds of electro and early house – or 'street music – as it was called, met the world. In 1983 the NME sent Richard Grabel inside the clown's-head booth to see what made it so much fun.