timeline

1985:
After the DJ that ran a night I went to regularly moved abroad a group of us took
over, with no experience whatsover, just to keep the night running. The night was held
at The Rezz in Romford, we ran as a weekly club night with occasional live bands.

1988:
When the venue closed the night moved to Kings in Seven Kings (now the site of an
Aldi supermarket!) and The Playground began.

1989:
A moved to Ilford saw a slight name change to Playground II this year,
followed by a new night called Asphxia.

1990:
A move to a new venue this year saw another new club, to Berzerka.

1991:
Up til now we had always worked Wednesday nights, this year saw us start
a regular monthly Friday night alongside Berzerka, called Resolv
(named after the hangover cure!). I moved to Colchester this year.

1992:
After travelling back to Ilford each Wednesday for a while I eventaully moved Berzerka to
Colchester and ran a series of events around the town, including one on a boat, before
settling into the Embassy Club as a regular home for a short while. Berzerka finally
ended in January 1996 after the venue owners fled to Spain with the takings!
(we'd pulled in over 600 people on Christmas Eve 1995)

1996:
I began a new club night in Ipswich called Death By Misadventure and DJ'd at the
Whitby Gothic Weekend for the first of what would be five times.

1998:
Joining forces with Jamie (penfolds nemesis) this year we began InsanitoriuM,
initially called Bedlam until we discovered another club of the same name and changed it.
The night evolved from a club night into a short spell of running a live band night alongside it,
and finally back to a club night again back where it all started, in the Cambridge Arms.

2006:
I launched thirteen13 limited with my wife, Brigitte. The aim was to help overseas artists from
the genres I spin to get heard in the UK, and to help them tour. We run a distribution service
and hold a Migrant Worker Sponsor licence which enables us to bring musicians into the
UK from all over the world.

This year also saw the launch of my monthly podcast which reached
out to almost 5000 people per month at it's height before I moved to radio totally after three years.

2007:
I began a monthly radio slot this year as part of DJ Cruel Britannia's 'Fadeout' show
called 'oldgoths bit in the middle' where I played new releases and forgotten classics.

2008:
In April this year we stopped InsanitoriuM on it's tenth anniversary, it had ran its course in
Colchester and we had two choices - tone down the music policy, or stop.
We stopped.

2009:
I began a regular night at the Whitby Gothic Weekend, called Nostalgia, which despite it's name
is not a retro night, but a night with the feeling of how clubs used to be, a fresh look at long running scene
without resorting to playing metal, EBM or industrial.

thirteen13 Limited changed tactics this year to concentrate on CD promotion only,
Although we still book UK tours exclusively for The Last Dance

In October this year I stopped the 'bit in the middle and started my own
radio show on Nightbreed called thirteen13

2010:
I wrote a column for Static Magazine at the start of the year and helped to
launch World Goth Day on a global scale after the UK one in 2009.

The CD 'Hope' was released in May to raise funds for The Sophie Lancaster Foundation.

The radio show was taken up by two new stations, Cathedral13 and Radio Chaos Tampa