Peace Fest 93
Dance Festival Promotions · Easter Sunday · Astoria interlinked to Buzby's · Junior Tomlin unity artwork · four-arena music festival
11 April 1993 (specialist-supported exact day) · 9pm–10am · ★ Gold Star object
Original double-sided Peace Fest 93 rave flyer for Dance Festival Promotions' Easter Sunday event at the Astoria interlinked to Buzby's, London, specialist-supported as 11 April 1993. Junior Tomlin's signed front artwork combines a split black/white male face with the slogan Peace Love Unity Dance, while the reverse documents a 13-hour, four-arena programme spanning hardcore, jungle, techno, trance, deep house/bumpin garage and rare groove/funk.
Read the catalogue note →- Event
- Peace Fest 93 — Easter Sunday Bank Holiday
- Promoter
- Dance Festival Promotions
- Venue
- The Astoria interlinked to Buzby's
- Location
- 157 Charing Cross Road, London WC1
- Advertised hours
- 9pm–10am, advertised as a 13-hour music festival.
- Original admission / price
- £15 plus booking fee.
- Designer
- Junior Tomlin
- Format
- Double-sided portrait flyer; A4 format is supported by exact-market listings but has not been physically measured by TMR.
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Original / reproduction
- High-confidence original event-period promotional flyer. No print run or surviving-copy count is claimed.
- Edition / variant
- Peace Fest 93 Astoria/Buzby's double-sided flyer with Junior Tomlin split black/white male unity portrait front and full programme/ticket-outlet reverse.
- Condition
- Very Good appearance from supplied front and reverse photographs; ungraded.
- Completeness
- Complete as the photographed standalone double-sided promotional flyer. Front artwork and reverse programme/ticket information are present; no separate ticket or insert is assumed to be an originally attached component.
- Absolute rarity
- No verified print run or survival count. Exact examples are documented in an institutional collection and in specialist/market listings.
- Event relationship
- Peace Fest 93 · 1993-04-11
- Venue relationship
- Browse The Astoria interlinked to Buzby's objects
Catalogue note
Original double-sided Peace Fest 93 rave flyer for Dance Festival Promotions' Easter Sunday event at the Astoria interlinked to Buzby's, London, specialist-supported as 11 April 1993. Junior Tomlin's signed front artwork combines a split black/white male face with the slogan Peace Love Unity Dance, while the reverse documents a 13-hour, four-arena programme spanning hardcore, jungle, techno, trance, deep house/bumpin garage and rare groove/funk. The object is especially strong as material evidence of early-1990s genre language, cross-scene programming, rave production infrastructure and anti-division visual rhetoric. Northwestern University preserves an exact Peace Fest 93 item in its British Rave Flyers Collection.
Advertised programme: Upstairs (Techno): Colin Dale; Loft Groover; Frankie Valentine; Dominic; Brenda Russell; Grant Harper; Trevor Rockliffe; Daz Saund. Main Arena (Hardcore): Slipmatt; Carl Cox; Grooverider; DJ Vibes; The Ratpack; Donovan (Bad Boy) Smith; Food Junky; Dream Dance; Billy Bunter. Buzby's Upstairs Rare Groove/Funk: Rodney T; Shaff; Kunle-D; Choice. Buzby's Main Room Garage Groove: CJ Mackintosh; Justin Berkman; Matt (Jam) Lamont; Linden-C; Marie. MC credits visible as MCMC and Chalky White.
Graphic-design significance: Strong Junior Tomlin example: a split black/white male face under the slogan Peace Love Unity Dance, with marine imagery and saturated airbrushed colour. Tomlin later discussed Peace Fest half-black/half-white faces as imagery about unity and bringing different people together.
Historical context: The flyer documents Peace Fest 93 at the Astoria/Buzby's on Easter Sunday 1993; specialist contemporary/event sources identify the day as 11 April. Its reverse advertises four genre-specific arenas and claims a tunnel would interlink the venues; those superlative/technical claims are preserved as promotional language rather than independently verified facts.
Production note: Not established from supplied photographs.
Condition note: Visible historic quarter-folding with strong horizontal and vertical fold lines; corner and edge creasing/wear, especially at the upper corners and lower edges; scattered small surface abrasions/marks. Colour remains strong and the printed information is substantially legible.
Confidence / uncertainty: The flyer identifies Easter Sunday 1993; 11 April is the corresponding date supported by specialist event documentation.
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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 Peace Fest unity image has an unusually strong exact-artwork case: Tomlin himself discussed the split black/white face as an expression of unity. Combined with the four-arena genre map, this sustains very high Gold; it remains distinguishable from a unique original artwork or foundational recording.
Evidence limits: The flyer identifies Easter Sunday 1993; 11 April is the corresponding date supported by specialist event documentation. Complete as the photographed standalone double-sided promotional flyer. Front artwork and reverse programme/ticket information are present; no separate ticket or insert is assumed to be an originally attached component.
Historical context
The flyer documents Peace Fest 93 at the Astoria/Buzby's on Easter Sunday 1993; specialist contemporary/event sources identify the day as 11 April. Its reverse advertises four genre-specific arenas and claims a tunnel would interlink the venues; those superlative/technical claims are preserved as promotional language rather than independently verified facts.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9.5 / 10 · Gold Star.
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Recorded contributions · 3
- Junior TomlinDesignCatalogue credit
Design credit: Junior Tomlin Original catalogue credit
Find other objects with this contribution → - Carl CoxPerformerCatalogue credit
Performer credit: Upstairs (Techno): Colin Dale; Loft Groover; Frankie Valentine; Dominic; Brenda Russell; Grant Harper; Trevor Rockliffe; Daz Saund. Main Arena (Hardcore): Slipmatt; Carl Cox; Grooverider; DJ Vibes; The Ratpack; Donovan (Bad Boy) Smith; Food Junky; Dream Dance; Billy Bunter. Buzby's Upstairs Rare Groove/Funk: Rodney T; Shaff; Kunle-D; Choice. Buzby's Main Room Garage Groove: CJ Mackintosh; Justin Berkman; Matt (Jam) Lamont; Linden-C; Marie. MC credits visible as MCMC and Chalky White. Original catalogue credit
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Performer credit: Upstairs (Techno): Colin Dale; Loft Groover; Frankie Valentine; Dominic; Brenda Russell; Grant Harper; Trevor Rockliffe; Daz Saund. Main Arena (Hardcore): Slipmatt; Carl Cox; Grooverider; DJ Vibes; The Ratpack; Donovan (Bad Boy) Smith; Food Junky; Dream Dance; Billy Bunter. Buzby's Upstairs Rare Groove/Funk: Rodney T; Shaff; Kunle-D; Choice. Buzby's Main Room Garage Groove: CJ Mackintosh; Justin Berkman; Matt (Jam) Lamont; Linden-C; Marie. MC credits visible as MCMC and Chalky White. Original catalogue credit
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