During another wormhole You Tube session, ended up watching that Lawler docu Art of the DJ.
Got me thinking / trying to recollect what happened to Home in London . I was deep in my Turnmills phase so never ended up going , but from what I recall took ages to complete the build and the club lasted about 2yrs - and was pants for the majority of it .
Did anyone go ? What was it like ? From what Lawler was sprouting sounded like it was trying to be Twilo .
I didn’t go and I sort of regret not going, heard conflicting stories.
Apparently it was rammo every week, so not quite the hubristic failure/white elephant it was painted as in some quarters.
Heard there was a great Tenaglia night there, also heard there were a few very good Parks & Wilson nights.
Was it really ‘pants’ (apart from tourists bumbling in)? I’d be interested to hear people’s accounts too.
Being very naive at the time, me and some mates went down there for opening night hoping to get in. The queue went around the building and into Leicester Square, never seen a longer queue. So we bailed and I never did get to go there.
Wonder what happened to the promoter Darren Hughes?
My mate was one of the residents at Home… Lawler was incredibly hard to work for/with.
Went quite a few times in the first 6 months including the opening night. I loved it, great sound system and layout and was well into Oakenfold back then so it ticked all of the boxes. I also saw Tenaglia there, he was supposed to play Fabric that night, but their opening was delayed. Apparently he still insisted on getting paid, which is why he never played there. Instead he was poached by Home. It was pretty hedonistic with the lady’s so was also good fun.
I started seeing a girl from Liverpool in 2000, so was clubbing up north most weekends. Rampling was the first resident to leave and Oakenfold not long after. Lawler went and was replaced by Howells . Tenaglia kept it a float for a while, but with that location and a few incidents their licence was always under review. Nick Warren also played once and Digweed played there on the Millennium after Geoff Oakes failed Renaissance party. Sasha was also supposed to play there one night with Darren Emerson, but was removed from the bill as he had the Tyrant residency at Fabric.
It was great fun for a short while though. You could rock out of Home at 4 am, jump in a taxis and go to Tyrant once a month.
Home at Space in Ibiza did better and went on to become We Love Sundays
The sound system was sold off and installed at Sankeys
Dan you can’t just leave that there Dan…..dish the goss!
He didn’t want supporting residents on the flyers, just STEVE LAWLER.
Quite humble.
Little man with a big ego
He came across as a bit of an egg on that documentary. Spent a big part owning up to being a coked up idiot then trying to justify it. Turned it off when that soul searching carried on for about 15min.
Home was 5 floors . “Last days of Rome” vibe that…..a good end point to 90s super club culture
“Steve opens up completely on his experiences of drugs and his self-proclaimed destruction of his reputation”
What, the reputation of of being a miserable pound shop Tenaglia with small man syndrome, who thinks he invented dark twisted tribal house.
Went twice. First on a whim after drinks in Covent Garden, second planned. First time. Remember a lift and feeling disorientated as I came out into Leicester Square at 3am trying to get a taxi. Remember Jon Pleased being very good playing after Parks & Wilson (who played Data B). He played DJ Sandy overdrive and Scorchio. Tenaglia was excellent. Around the time of his second GU and I remember him playing Schiller Ruhe and Rui Da Silva Touch me. Big main room. Some cool balconies to dance and remember bumping in Sara Cox. About it.
“I din’t have to learn to mix.. I could just mix. I was bang on from the start”
Never went to home. Wasn’t interested in the slightest. Tyrant, Renaissance and Bedrock nights were the choice at the time.
If you where heading down to that there London at the time then you where off to Fabric.
Indeed, or Renaissance at The Cross was always a boss night.
Yeh mainly fabrc but did do The Cross a fair few times too.
Cankles-McJeggings Loved Tyrant.
Home was full of cunts and hangers on - table service bottle vodka for £300 type of cunts. Way too many dealers in there - made it a pain in the arse and an obvious target for the authorities.
Steve Lawler’s Harlem nights residency at The End was always a top night. Couldn’t beat Friday night clubbing in London at that time.
