Just found this, the special T-shirt we made after the first year of the
Solid Steel night at
Ruby Lo to thank everyone who played.
Ruby Lo (short for Ruby Lounge) was a basement bar in London’s West End near
Bond Street, down a side street by
Selfridges.
DK and I were the residents each month, the night was only £3 but we didn’t announce who was playing, you had to trust that we’d get decent guests. We really wanted to do a residency at a place where it was intimate, had seating and a DJ booth on the floor rather than a stage. As it turned out, the booth was in the middle of everything with a dancefloor on one side and seating directly behind so we were virtually in the round.
What a line up, 2005 was just as good, I need to find that list too. It would fill up with after work drinkers early on but they would clear out by about 9pm and our crowd would come down to see the set list pinned to the wall with who would be playing. I’m pretty sure this was
Diplo‘s first ever London DJ appearance, he was playing
Fabric the next night and we only got him because he wasn’t announced. For
Luke Vibert‘s appearance he bought
Aphex with him and for the December resident set DK and I gave away every record we played after we’d finished with it (pre-
Serato days).
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