HISTORY

Pure began in August 1990 at The Venue, Calton Rd, Edinburgh with resident dj's Twitch & Brainstorm playing their eclectic selection of dance music . The club quickly changed the club scene in Edinburgh, arriving, as it did as The Summer of Love exploded on the UK.....storoboscopic flashes of scenes of crazy people in mad smoke filled rooms stick in my mind....it had a freshness that came with the birth of a scene; before cynicism and wariness crept back in. Pure was bringing the likes of Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Blake Baxter, Richie Hawtin, Orbital and Jeff Mills to play before the UK techno scene became fashionable.

That was 1990, and for a few years the madness continued, with word about the club spreading further afield. In 1993 we took the step of hiring the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow for the first of roughly a dozen 2,000 capacity parties. The first night, rather humerously known as "clash of the techno titans" with a suitable metal style tour t-shirt featured Derrick May, Jeff Mills, Lenny Dee, Ege Bam Yasi and State of Flux in addition to the Pure Residents and proved that you could put on a big event without it being a cheesy rave. These events continued for a few years untill difficulties obtaining a late licence caused us to look elsewhere for a venue in Glasgow. Maybee sometime in the future we may return to the Barrowland as it's an incredible venue with an amazing atmosphere.

The Pure monster lumbered on, with the DJs guesting around the world, and closer to home, with occasional nights in The Glasgow Arches featuring three seperate dancefloors and an array of guests. Notabley we also did a Pure Night in Amsterdamm with Twitch, Brainstorm, Derrick May & Dimitri. Around seventy adventurous nutters arrived, many getting in transit vans, busses etc immediately after the club closed in Edinburgh on Friday. An amusing weekend was had in Amsterdam as you could not go far without bumping into a mad Scotsman. One group of fifers drove all the way to Amsterdam only to miss the club because the got too wrecked to get out the hostel. The night itself is rather hazy as by the Sunday night, not many were in any fit state to remember, but the photos look good.

At the seventh Birthday party in Edinburgh, it became obvious that once a week for seven years is a solid year of Pure and perhalps it's time to slow down. We therefore stopped running weekly, switching to a fortnighly frequency. This allowed us to start regular monthly nights in London {stopped - Venue security too scary} Dublin {no longer on, Venue sold}, Glasgow {Venue burnt down}, Aberdeen {too cold} & Dundee {venue closed}.

On August 18th, 2000, It was our Tenth birthday party at the Venue in Edinburgh so we stopped as we decided that if we didn't, we would have to go on for ever, and ten years at the Venue is long enough. Pure now operates occisionally in Edinburgh...see events page for details. For what the residents are up to now they have time on their hands, go to Residents.

We have always continued on our own musical course, regardless of fashion, and to try and put it into words it may be this....We aim to entertain, innovate and keep it fresh....we do not regard ourselves as being a club whom play a particular genre or sub-genre as this in itself is a limiting factor....rather we regard music as music.

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