Pure XTC Pt 1

Catalogue note

Original double-sided Pure Warehouse Promotions flyer for Pure XTC Pt 1, advertised for Saturday 14 March. The flyer deliberately withholds the final venue and instructs attendees to meet at Tesco's car park, Bar Hill near Cambridge at 9pm prompt. PWP describes the event as its first of the year and promises London and Cambridge underground DJs. Its combination of secret-location logistics and striking Statue of Liberty imagery makes it a particularly clear material record of warehouse-rave organisation.

Advertised programme: Flyer promises a combination of London and Cambridge underground DJs but does not print individual performer names.

Graphic-design significance: Front combines a dramatically colour-shifted Statue of Liberty with a monumental stone head against an intense red/orange sky, overlaid with condensed yellow and pink typography. The reverse uses enormous blue PWP letterforms as a background to sparse white, yellow and pink event copy. No designer credit is visibly established.

Historical context: The physical object identifies Pure Warehouse Promotions and “PURE XTC PT 1”, describing PWP as having assembled a “hardcore team of organisers” and announcing the first of its events for the year. Attendees are told to meet at Tesco's car park, Bar Hill near Cambridge at 9pm prompt, rather than being given the final event venue. This is direct material evidence of the rendezvous system associated with warehouse-rave organisation.

Condition note: Very Good+ appearance, ungraded. Clean, flat sheet with light edge/corner handling and minor surface marks. Strong saturated colour on the Statue of Liberty / stone-head front and excellent reverse legibility; no major tears, folds or paper loss visible.

Confidence / uncertainty: The event title, promoter, printed date and meeting point are physically verified. The calendar year, final warehouse venue and performers are not printed and remain unknown. The later TMR Pure X / Hysteria objects are not assumed to be the same promoter or event series merely because they share “Pure X” wording.

Through the flyers

Explore the club-culture timeline to follow advertised dates, places and billed performers across the held flyers.

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.