GOOD TIMES
GOOD TIMES
pa by Alex Party performing the classic “read my lips* & “ dont give me your life”October saw an acceleration in numbers with 3 consecutive weekends of top quality fresh dance acts…
The Happy Clappers performing the timeless house anthem “I believe”
Pizzaman project of the great Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) performed “tripping on sunshine “ a ground breaking production for its time.
Umboza rocked the house with one of my personal favourites “cry India” with eclectic organ stabs & the crowd pleasing sample from Lionel Ritchie’s worldwide hit “all night long” .
DJ Pete Davis from Kiss FM & sound factory NYC joins the team, Good Times is gaining traction…
using parachutes, camo nets & backdrops the club is looking betterJX was one of our first big bookings, they were huge at the time, known for the early 90s club anthem *son of a gun* & *don’t stop movin*
Nigel Benn starred as our first big name DJ & numbers soared to 1800 people. He was booked to pull people in and he did. Although the music was not ideal so we had to take him off early. The crowd was what we wanted and this night launched Good Times on its path to success.
Enigma’s first birthday saw an incredible night of music & groundbreaking visuals from a futuristic illusionist called The Wizard (Marc Oberon) the club was plunged into total darkness for the 20 min show. It was Amazing….
Good Times goes stateside with an American themed night of US house & garage & sending 2 clubbers to the big apple on an all expenses paid trip.
The 1st Good Times summer ball was a hedonistic ‘Ibiza discovered ‘night with many entertainers, stunning visuals & cutting edge Balearic beats.We would take 8 lucky people to Ibiza for a 7 day clubbing trip to the closing parties…
Good times is packing in 1500 clubbers every Saturday
Astro Trax team performed the house/ garage anthem “the energy” with support from Dazz Norman, DJ KC and Paul Gillies alongside Dave bergin. Brilliant music and these DJs featured regularly in the future
Lovestation brought the house down with an electrifying performance! The crowd loved ‘Teardrops’ who doesn’t? When Lovestation invited the crowd to join in it felt like 5000 voices… an incredible atmosphere, then raised up a notch with the powerful vocals & hi tempo of ‘love come rescue me’
The first ‘Club Classics’ night I put on & played at. House music was barely a decade old at this point (1997) and rapidly diversifying , for me it’s important to stay in touch with my musical roots & early influences, there’s just so many awesome tunes out there forgotten or rarely played. Club Classics is born…
Good Times gets in big trouble with tobacco giant Marlboro Lights for this cheeky number… All flyers and posters had to be taken out of every shop & destroyed. A bit of corporate grovelling saw us back in business but it was a close call. This was pre digital age so this image should be fine right?
Good Times made this shockingly tacky flyer to enter into a DJ MAGAZINE competition.
it was lots of fun and we won ! A great relief after the Malboro Lights incident
March 1998 saw a Legend grace the stage at Good Times. Chicago singer Byron Stingily raised the roof with his timeless anthem ‘get up everybody’ & ‘you make me feel’ .
what an incredible voice! a real star…
Blockster in the house.
Club Classics 1988-1998 with the talented Bongo Ted on percussion
Yes we got in big trouble for this one too! Someone did not learn their lesson… Say no
more.
So no more rip off flyers…
Who wants one more….?
