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 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