Linked rave companies and venues

Working on the rave flyer library is time consuming stuff,  catalogue, scanning, coding etc etc, however there is many interesting things that come to light.  One of which is how many different rave companies were actually run by the same people.  Knowing many of the people as we did we were aware of some of the links however even we had forgotten who were behind some of the events (they were the competitions after all)!   We will attempt at some point to simplify some of those connections by making it clear when they are linked.  

Why did they have different brands?  Some like ESP (who's main brand ended up being Dreamscape) tried a number of different brands out at the same time before discarding, Big Bad Head, Supernova and others names to concentrate on the one that had the most resonance with ravers.  Other companies/promoters had to ditch successful/well known brands to ditch negative image or to escape creditors.  This was the case with Chris Griffin who was behind Perception, Mythology, Vision and Devotion.  I will comment some more on this at a later stage.

It also becomes clears how many of the rave events were carried out and many of the same venues.  The Sanctuary was popular and staid named the same, however many of the rave venues used over the 90's went through various names changes over the years.  We all know The Eclipse became The Edge but it changed its name again when it became the home to Coventry University and carried on holding more events.  Other venues also changed their names over the years as well.

If you can help fill in some of the links between companies and venues there do make a post as we like to hear more....

So whats different with the Rave Flyer Library?

We are putting lots of effort into the rave flyer library. It takes an ages to scan every flyer both front and back and internal pages as well. So whats the difference between our archive and other sites? Well we are making an effort to scan the flyers in a higher resolution than most sites have used (now that the internet is much faster, we think you deserve to get flyers of a resolution that can be printed. You can also read all the text on each flyer. Plus a smaller image pops up to see if this is the flyer you are looking for before having to open the main flyer.

But the biggest change is that we have also included the backs of the flyers, which most sites have not taken the efort to include. This means you can now read the details of who was on the line up, where the venues was etc etc.

We hope to also link the flyers to any reviews etc we have from the night. Lots more work to go but we hope you like what we have done.