Gallery

In the words of Tony Hart, 'Welcome to the Gallery'.

Have fun browsing through the photos from our past events and a selection of our flyers and commissioned artworks;

 
 

Substance 10th Birthday Commissioned Artworks

In 2005 the Substance club night celebrated its 10th Birthday. To mark the occasion, various elements of the night were hosted across 3 rooms.  The main room played host to DJ Premier (Gang Starr) and the Substance live band.  The cinema room hosted a preview showing of DJ Supreme’s ‘Turntable Trixters - the Hi Jack story', a film by Birmingham’s P Kalsi.  The third room featured original artworks commissioned for the night with the kind support of Carhartt, visuals of which appear below.

 
 

Photo Gallery

I greatly regret not having been more active with my camera over the years.  Club nights by their nature come and go and eventually so do your memories of them (some fade faster than others).  Here’s a selection of photos I’ve managed to pull together. Thanks to those who contributed these.  If anybody out there has others (particularly of the early shows from ’95 – ’00) then please get in touch!  Chris

L-R top to bottom; (1) resident Roc 1 (2) resident Chris Read (3) Chief Rocker Busy Bee (4) DJ Krush (5) DJ Premier (6) Visuals (7) KRS One (8) Crowd action

 
 

Flyer Gallery

We’ve been fortunate to have some talented illustrators and designers bless us with their skills over the years.  Below are a selection of my favourites;

 
 

Series 1 (2000)

These are probably my all time favourites. These great illustrations put together by Chu were the product of many an afternoon’s brainstorming and tea drinking.  The result was this comic strip told over the course of five months, a loose metaphor for the evolution, commercialisation and ultimate destruction of the music we love (perhaps)!

 
 

Series 2 (2000 – 2001)

Another themed series from Chu. Self explanatory text accompanied with illustrations based on the guest artists’ characteristics.

 
 

Series 3 (2001)

Perhaps my second favourite.  Another twisted fantasy cartoon featuring a selection of unfortunate super heroes is played out over the months culminating with a 3 part collector’s flyer for our 6th Birthday

 
 

Series 4 (2002)

Another Chu masterpiece.  Cut out and keep Substance band members were available to collect over the course of 4 months.  The photo shows the models made up and proudly on display!

 
 

Series 5 (2003 – 2005)

Selection of flyers by Johann Chan

 
 

… and finally a selection of my favourites from over the years;