Summer Dance Fest 92
Summer Dance Festival 2 · Rectory Farm, Stretton · 7 August 1992 · Dance Planet / Obsession / Raven · Junior Tomlin artwork
7 August 1992 · 8pm–10am · ★ Gold Star object
Original double-sided Summer Dance Fest 92 flyer/poster for the 7 August 1992 all-night event at Rectory Farm, Stretton, Leicestershire. Presented by Dance Festival Promotions with Dance Planet, Obsession and Raven, it documents a large three-arena programme featuring leading DJs and MCs including Grooverider, Slipmatt, LTJ Bukem, DJ SS, Ratty, Fabio, Micky Finn and many others.
Read the catalogue note →- Event
- Summer Dance Fest 92 / Summer Dance Festival 2
- Promoter
- Dance Festival Promotions — Paul & Timi (Ram Jam); presented in association with Dance Planet, Obsession and Raven
- Venue
- Rectory Farm
- Location
- Stretton, Leicestershire (off A1)
- Advertised hours
- 8pm–10am, advertised as a 14-hour event.
- Original admission / price
- £23 advance-only admission, as retained in the verified catalogue transcription.
- Designer
- Junior Tomlin
- Format
- Double-sided full-colour promotional flyer/poster; large portrait sheet. Exact physical dimensions have not been measured from the supplied photographs.
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Original / reproduction
- Original 1992 event-period promotional flyer/poster — high-confidence attribution from the physical object and exact institutional/specialist matches; no paper or printing-laboratory examination has been performed.
- Edition / variant
- Junior Tomlin illustrated double-sided Summer Dance Fest 92 / Summer Dance Festival 2 state. Specialist indexes document both A4 and A3 Summer Dance Fest 92 variants; the supplied copy’s dimensions have not been measured, so no A-series size is assigned.
- Condition
- Very Good+ appearance from supplied front and reverse photographs; ungraded.
- Completeness
- Complete as the photographed standalone double-sided promotional sheet: the illustrated front and information-rich reverse are present. No separate ticket, insert or other standard issued component of the flyer itself has been established from the evidence supplied.
- Event relationship
- Summer Dance Fest 92 · 1992-08-07
- Venue relationship
- Browse Rectory Farm objects
Catalogue note
Original double-sided Summer Dance Fest 92 flyer/poster for the 7 August 1992 all-night event at Rectory Farm, Stretton, Leicestershire. Presented by Dance Festival Promotions with Dance Planet, Obsession and Raven, it documents a large three-arena programme featuring leading DJs and MCs including Grooverider, Slipmatt, LTJ Bukem, DJ SS, Ratty, Fabio, Micky Finn and many others. Its front is a physically signed Junior Tomlin illustration, while the reverse preserves ticketing, production, sound-system, lighting, venue and admission infrastructure. An exact Summer Dance Fest item is held in Northwestern University’s British Rave Flyers Collection, and surviving same-date sets connect the paper object to the event’s recorded sound history. Some recordings circulate as “Peace Fest 92”; TMR preserves that as an archive-name discrepancy rather than changing the printed event title.
Advertised programme: Arena 1 — The Energiser: Slipmatt; Grooverider; Top Buzz; Ratpack; Ellis D; Micky Finn; Easy Groove; Ratty; Sy; SS; Unity; Donovan Bad Boy Smith; LTJ Bukem; Keith Suckling; MC Robbie D; Bassman; Jack Horner; Jay J. Arena 2 — The Pleasure Zone includes Fabio; Lime; Pilgrim; Loftgroover; Stu J; Phantasy; Lomas; Seduction; Ramjack; Luke; Mash; Bad Boy J; Lisa; Swaine; Roscoe; Randall; Eze Vibe; Natz; Ribzee; Stuart Banks; Force; Kieren; Bear; Trace; Tango; Atomix; Detonator; Food Junky; Distroy; Junglist Crew; Frenzy; Magica; DJ Slipmaster (J); Nam; MC Matrix; Jessie James; Den’s; No; Mems. Arena 3 — Back to the Future: advertised as a very special guest / surprise female MC.
Graphic-design significance: The front carries a physically signed Junior Tomlin airbrushed illustration: a surreal ecstatic female face against a saturated landscape. The object is strong evidence of the distinctive sci-fi/fantasy visual language through which British rave promoters communicated scale, futurism and altered-state experience in the early 1990s.
Historical context: The reverse is unusually rich evidence of rave infrastructure: 8pm–10am hours, Rectory Farm venue, three named arenas, extensive DJ/MC billing, £23 advance-only admission, nationwide ticket outlets, 120k turbo sub-bass, lighting/laser attractions and production claims. Surviving recordings from the same date circulate both as Summer Dance Fest 92 and as “Peace Fest 92”, so that alternate tape-archive naming is preserved rather than used to rename the physical flyer.
Condition note: Light edge/corner and handling wear is visible in the supplied photographs; colours remain strong and there are no obvious major tears, losses or heavy folds.
Confidence / uncertainty: Event/date/venue/promoter wording and Junior Tomlin authorship are directly evidenced by the physical object, including Tomlin’s signature. The literal truth of the “first legal 14 hour” UK/European claim has not been independently established. Exact sheet size is unknown; external indexes distinguish A4 and A3 versions. Some surviving audio is indexed under the alternate title Peace Fest 92.
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Further sources
Event details are drawn from the held object and the qualified catalogue research above. A printed bill establishes an advertised booking, not confirmation that a performer appeared.
Why this object matters
The three-arena bill and detailed production/ticket network make Summer Dance Fest a rich surviving record of large-scale 1992 rave organisation. The exact-event institutional reference strengthens research usefulness but does not by itself justify 9.6; recorded sets and the alternate event name remain contextual evidence.
Evidence limits: Event/date/venue/promoter wording and Junior Tomlin authorship are directly evidenced by the physical object, including Tomlin’s signature. The literal truth of the “first legal 14 hour” UK/European claim has not been independently established. Exact sheet size is unknown; external indexes distinguish A4 and A3 versions. Some surviving audio is indexed under the alternate title Peace Fest 92. Complete as the photographed standalone double-sided promotional sheet: the illustrated front and information-rich reverse are present. No separate ticket, insert or other standard issued component of the flyer itself has been established from the evidence supplied.
Historical context
The reverse is unusually rich evidence of rave infrastructure: 8pm–10am hours, Rectory Farm venue, three named arenas, extensive DJ/MC billing, £23 advance-only admission, nationwide ticket outlets, 120k turbo sub-bass, lighting/laser attractions and production claims. Surviving recordings from the same date circulate both as Summer Dance Fest 92 and as “Peace Fest 92”, so that alternate tape-archive naming is preserved rather than used to rename the physical flyer.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9.2 / 10 · Gold Star.
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