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| Madders on the history of Birmingham Clublife Updated 9th Oct 2001 Sundissential promoter, Madders, takes us through the history of Birmingham's club scene | ||
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 1993 was a good year, things went glam in Birmingham. Miss Moneypennys started in 1993 and immediately caught people's attention. The Chuff Chuff thing had already built up a name for itself with people who wanted to dress up, and Miss Moneypennys catered for the glam crowd.Miss Moneypennys and Chuff Chuff is for people who want to get clattered and still look good. Now that doesn't make sense to me, but there are many people who think that way. Miss Moneypennys did well and Birmingham stayed pretty much like that up until 1996. Birmingham became known as a city for glam clubbers, that was down to the influence of Miss Moneypennys and its clubbers. Now if I may be so bold, 1996 was so special because that was the year Sundissential started. We opened our doors in November 1996 not expecting to have the huge impact we did, but I feel we took the reigns over from the Marco Polo Bar, which had been shut for 2 years. We wanted to put on a massive party, but never envisaged Sundissential touching as many people's lives as it has done over the years Sundissential was very unique and ground breaking for Birmingham at the time. We'd opened this night at a PLC club. It was right at the top of the gay village, so it was ideally located for the gay people and for the rest of the people in Birmingham. Tony De Vit did the opening night and it grew very quickly. It was very colourful; everyone would come dressed up as ballerinas or Elton John. It was amazing. We run the place properly right from the start, which is why the place is still thriving today. | ||
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 Many people say that Sundissential is responsible for Birmingham now being seen as a hard house city. We are the biggest hard house club in the city, Godskitchen is not a hard house club, it plays trance and hard house. We concentrate just on hard house, and that's obvious from the DJs we book and residents we have nurtured over the years. Now I pull no punches, so I have no hesitation in saying that over the years there have been 2 DJs that have Sundissential to thank for their positions today; they are Fergie and Lisa Lashes. They don't play for me as much as I'd like these days, that's because they're on lot more money now. But they're big name DJs now, and they both have Sundissential to thank for that. I think Tony De Vit laid the foundation for the hard house sound of Birmingham. I think it was Tony's work in the mid 90s, and people like Andy Farley, Lisa Lashes and Fergie in the late 90s, that made hard house as popular as it is today.  Birmingham has finally got its clubland sorted. At last common sense has set in. It wasn't always the case. Last year when we had problems there were a few clubs trying to take advantage of the situation. Now, everything seems sorted. We don't have any hard house competition on Saturdays, Babooshka doesn't have funky house competition on Saturdays, Miss Moneypennys are doing one off parties. It's working so well.
Birmingham is a fantastic city. The inward development of Birmingham is incredible. The Bullring is now officially the biggest building site in Western Europe. When you consider the cosmopolitan cities in Western Europe, it tells you about the scale of investment going on in our wonderful city. If you've never been here, why not? Get your arses down and come and meet me, Madders from Sundissential. www.sundissential.co.uk www.moneypennys.com www.godskitchenonline.com |
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