FATHOM: 30-year Reunion w/ Third Eye guests Sir Real & Grindi

Fathom's first gig in 1994 was an all dayer at The Malt Shovel Garden, which turned into an all night house party with people dancing on top of the backyard wall at 7am.

A Friday night warm up residency at the newly opened Medicine Bar followed, leading to an all night Warehouse Rave in the Custard Factory.

Aardvark Vegan Cafe all nighters over 2 floors where a huge success, with Atomic Jam Djs coming to spin afterwards

This led to a back room at Atomic Jam, a couple of mental nights at Screamers with the Wolves crew, and some outrageous nights in the mirrored garden with big PA at The Market Tavern, that went till noon the next day.

NYE 99/2000 was seen in at Satans Paradise and a final out-door free party in the sand dunes at Gower finished us off in style!

Fathom was a good time, a crowd of friends who had all met on the loved up dance-floors of Brum, DJ's where free to play whatever they liked, but we where deadly serious about the music, no cheesy shite ever got on the Fathom decks, the only rule we had was every tune had to be really f'in good!

At a time when everyone went genre specific, we preferred to mix it up and go from Acid to Progressive to bangin' House ,Techno to D&B and back down to Deep House, with some random Rave/80's tunes thrown in, and MC Tickle providing the cheeky lyrics to keep the loved up Rave vibe alive!

Sir Real – Third Eye resident who went on to found House of God and his Festival 'Unorthodox Paradox', a mainstay on the Birmingham music scene, i've danced to Sir Real's sets more than any other DJ i reckon, but he's leaving the banging Techno at home tonight and digging deep for some 'Ecstatic tunes from the golden era' that he used to play at Third Eye

Grindi – Third Eye founder/DJ – Snobs, Que Club, dodgy warehouses , we went wherever Grindi was playing, as he had THE TUNES we wanted to hear.

Third Eye was all about psychedelic acid tinged progressive music that seemed to be everywhere in the early 90's – Leftfield/Underworld/DrumClub/Spooky/Orbital/Grid/MBM/Weatherall – that intersection of live/alternative/acid/festival/rave/summeroflove vibes that drew in people who wanted to dance but not to hyper-speed breaks and cheesy MC's. It felt like home for our crowd of students and working class misfits.

Grindi is back on the decks for one night only, so if you where there you wont want to miss this one, and if your not an old git, you can hear why us old ravers get all misty eyed and excited over these tunes

DJ Pedro – Fathom resident, came up from London with the latest Dutch and US imports, hard edged progressive house bangers that where the coolest tunes on the planet as far as we where concerned, the studios in Holland seemingly years ahead production wise of most anything else we'd heard up to that point, sending us into the stratosphere of dance floor moves, every gig people would ask ' Is Pedro playing?'

Dj Titan – Fathom founder/DJ – Titan was drum n bass obsessed for the first few years, Alex Reese and all that quality Metelheadz stuff , but an infamous trip to London saw him see the light and switch to speed Garage. All the future classics got played, bringing a fresh wild abandon from the crowd just as things where starting to look jaded

DJ Spotter – Fathom Founder – i was too busy dancing, chatting and supplying the 'vibes' to DJ properly, but i had some good tunes, so would go on the decks when people where past caring. 30 yrs later and i've had time to practise, gone back and bought all those massive tunes i loved, and cant wait to rock the Fathom dance-floor!

MC Tickle – One of the few MC's to not do my nut in, he got on the Mic at our first Malt Shovel gig and never left, before long he had moved in with us, to complete the crew. He brings the crowd up, keeps them vibing together, and pisses the serious techno bods off. Perfect

1994 vibes where seriously nuts. Hugging strangers, hands in the air, shouting and screaming approval of good tunes, no phones, no moody screw faces. It was an ecstatic blissful loved up scene, so let the music take us back for a few hours and feel that vibe one more time, come on!

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