Story: Nightclubs

Getting ready, Liks, 2002

A performer at Wellington strip club Liks checks her costume before going on stage. Pay in many clubs depends on tips and money earned from private dances (usually done in a small booth). The club may charge a shift fee or get a percentage of performers’ earnings. If the audience don’t tip well, or few private dances are booked, a stripper may earn little or nothing.

Using this item

Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington Photographic Society Collection

Reference: PADL-000021-12CliffordI2

by Donna Clifford

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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How to cite this page

Redmer Yska, Nightclubs – Strip clubs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/39179/getting-ready-liks-2002 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Redmer Yska, published 3 December 2012.

Comments

Evan Silva
28 November 2014

Hi There ..my recently published book is about the Alkd City Clubs Galaxie ..Top 20 as I played them all ..Evan