Luminous was my first residency at a night ran by my friend Daddy Rich. It was monthly for 3 years at Bar Fluid in Farringdon, London, just a few doors down from Fabric, which designated the bar a bit of a pre-party venue for the super club.
A small selection of some of the flyers I made for the night are shown here, please be gentle as it’s some very early Photoshop work made in the 90s! There was an original logo once, but in the spirit of Stussy we changed it up, a lot.
MODern B-Boy was the second night we ran in the 90s. This was another monthly and ran for 2 years at The Clinic on Gerrard Street in Soho, I think the building has been made into flats now. This was a crazy idea from Rich to have Mod DJs on the bar level with guests from Brighton and further afield, and breakbeats upstairs, my area. Rich even insisted on the Mod slogan as our slogan.
The logo was a trace of a photo of an old beat box from a magazine, with some (looks a bit dodgy now) typography for the logotype. These are the only surviving flyers I could find.
This was my night, Rich helped me of course! We didn’t run for long, the venue; Katabatic got taken over by The Medicine Bar. I took the name from a lyric in The Theme from S-Express, which I also used as my DJ Radio show name on CN Soho Live, one of the first internet radio stations in the early 00s I was part of.
I made the logo type, and the flyers, but I asked my good friend and illustrator Paul Mitchell to draw me as a DJ spanking a blond on the decks, and he drew the fantastic illustration you see below, for the second flyer I asked for the same but in the style of Ralph Steadman, I’d just read Fear and Loathing!
I met so much talent back then, big shouts to: Skeewiff, DJ Love, Stretch Taylor, Jay Cunning, Malinna, Ian Davy, Atomic Hooligan, Krafty Kuts, Superstar DJs, DJ Creaminal, Freddy Fresh, Stabilizer, Plastic Raygun, Johnny Reggae, Bushy & Professor, Ali B, Lexi Love, Organic Audio, Cut La Roc, Ramon Santana (Los Chicarrons), Skeg (Breakin’ Bread), Ben from Cornershop, Ollie Memphis, Charles Large and many more I can’t remember ☹️.
