New look Residentclubber.co.uk website coming soon!

The original website (from 2001-2012), originally just a place to put my photos from nights out, was around before social media as we know it today, and so was designed primarily for desktops and never optimised for smartphones, which back then, were only just beginning to become more technologically internet capable.

After the website shuttered in 2012, the official Facebook page was the only place to see photos from the nights out. But flash-forward a few years later, and I wanted to bring back the website, over 20 years after I first got the idea for 'Residentclubber', with a more independent focus, something stand alone and less reliant on social media.

With a legacy of some great nights in the local nightlife scene, I'll be cracking open the Residentclubber.co.uk vault of the hundreds of photos taken over the years. 

Residentclubber was always about the photos from fun nights out, and with the forthcoming new and updated look, you'll be able to scroll an archive of photos from years gone by, as well as being able to keep up to date on all things Residentclubber; from our new Casa Discoteca pop up nights and my latest DJ mixes, to the latest news, features, merch and more.

From partying at some of the best clubs, bars and events in and around Birmingham, Leamington Spa and beyond, plus the odd jaunt over to Ibiza, and even our own Residentclubber party nights, prepare for a wave of nostalgia from nights and with friends that I'm sure will bring back a few memories of some very good times!

Stay tuned!

Photo Flashback: Ibiza 2012

Continuing my look back at when I visited the White Isle from 2009-2013 and in 2017.

Revisiting 2012. (I'm the guy in the Hawaiian shirts 😉)

Photos: Cafe Mambo at Warwick Castle: Saturday May 13 2023

A few photos from the awesome Cafe Mambo at Warwick Castle outdoor event on Saturday May 13 2023. Not too many, as I was rather enjoying things a bit! 😁

Top DJs spinning some top tunes all day. Was great to bump into a few familiar faces throughout the day too.

Favourite set of the day for me was the Lovely Laura & Ben Santiago. They really got the crowd going and loved the music they were playing!

Really enjoyed the day and hope that they come back again!

(Photos taken on an Oppo Find X5 smartphone and edited in Affinity Photo software)

Photo Flashback: Ibiza 2011

Continuing my look back at when I visited the White Isle from 2009-2013 and in 2017.

Revisiting 2011. (I'm still the guy in the Hawaiian shirts 😉)

Photo Flashback: Ibiza 2010

Continuing my series of flashbacks from when I visited the White Isle from 2009-2013 and in 2017.

Revisiting 2010. (I'm still the guy in the Hawaiian shirts 😉)

Photo Flashback: Ibiza 2009

With the summer season now underway in Ibiza, here's the first in a series of flashbacks from when I visited the White Isle from 2009-2013 and in 2017.

Starting with the first year I went; 2009. (I'm the guy in the Hawaiian shirt 😉)

Photo Flashback: Residentclubber Nights (2002-2008) - The DJ's

Back in the olden days, from 2002 until around 2008, I organised dance music nights in bars and clubs around Leamington Spa. 

Inspired after a trip to the superclub Godskitchen in Birmingham a year or so before, and disappointed there not being anything of its like, both musically or of a similar vibe more locally, I had a plan. Why not do something about it!

After clubbing in Birmingham for a couple of years, I had garnered a few DJ contacts in the clubs and across various clubbing messageboard forums and had plenty of takers for DJ's when I put the word out looking for DJ's to play.

The first Residentclubber Night, 'Trancefusion', launched at Pacific Rim (now the back room at House) in Leamington Spa in December 2002; a dance music night of trance and hard dance! It only lasted until July 2003, but the quality of mostly up and coming DJ's spinning on the decks was pretty high.

Over the next few years, the sound of the nights evolved from the harder dance music of melodic trance and techno, to a more funky house sound, which lead to more events in several bars around Leamington Spa, before culminating in a residency night in the top floor VIP room at the club Evolve (now Neon), which proved very popular!

The events were great fun to put on, some great nights, music and memories. I had learned a lot in putting the nights on and made some new friends and contacts along the way as well.

Here's a look back at some of the fabulous DJ's (and me) that graced the decks at the various Residentclubber Nights events over the years! 

Andy B on the first decks for the first time at the last 'Trancefusion' night

Photo Flashback: Clubbing Pics from 2003 (Part 3)

Photos from 2003, the first nights the Residentclubber camera (singular, as it was just me!) was out in Leamington Spa.

Photo Flashback: Clubbing Pics from 2003 (Part 2)

Photos from various nights out in Birmingham, 2003, including Saturday afternoon event 'Reckless' and 'Polysexual' at The Dome.

Photo Flashback: Clubbing Pics from 2003 (Part 1)

Photos from various club nights out in Birmingham, including Godskitchen, Polysexual and the CODE closing party, 2003.

Photo Flashback: 'Godskitchen' from 2001-2002'

Photos from various nights out at Godskitchen in Birmingham, 2001-2002.

AJ Gibson

20 Years Ago, The Friday Night Out That Would Change My Life Forever!

Friday March 30 2001.

A night out clubbing in Birmingham with friends that would end up changing my life forever!

The club was Godskitchen, the weekly dance music night held in an old warehouse-turned-nightclub in the Digbeth area of Birmingham.

Used to clubbing it to the retro and latest pop tunes in the local clubs, I was completely blown away once I stepped in through the doors at the Birmingham superclub. What I saw was a haven full of like minded clubbers, all getting sweaty to the best in the latest and best in dance music, being played by big name DJ's, with laser lightshows, dancers and more. If there was ever was a Heaven, this was it!

I had gone there the week before, but it was this night; with a headline DJ lineup of Ferry Corsten, Armin van Buuren (his debut UK appearance no less!), Judge Jules and Timo Maas, and broadcast live on Rapture TV, a satellite TV station that was on the Sky TV network at the time, that was to be the spark to the flame that would ignite my love of the club scene. I even got on the broadcast, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo towards the end of the night at 05:19:18!!! (Yes, that's me on the thumbnail, still going at it on the dancefloor!)

You can watch the whole 6 hour video of the night below or on my YouTube channel.

Friday nights would become a regular pilgrimage to Godskitchen, whether it was with friends, meeting up with the great group of new friends I'd met at the club, or even just on my own, I just couldn't get enough! And over the next few years, as well as going to various other club events (including the Global Gathering Festival at Long Marston and Gatecrasher at The NEC amongst others), I had the time of my life!

This all sparked the idea for Residentclubber, initially just somewhere to put photos from the nights out - way before social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Instagram etc, were around - and which would later spin off  into putting on my own dance music nights and even to get behind the decks myself and DJ!

The rest is history!!!