Destiny — Jenkins Lane
Jenkins Lane, Barking · 10 October 1992 · Grooverider / Simon Bassline Smith / Easygroove
10 October 1992 · 9pm all night · ★ Gold Star object
Double-sided flyer for Destiny at Jenkins Lane, Barking, 10 October 1992. The front uses a dramatically colour-separated multi-armed figure and floating spheres; the reverse promises to bring Jenkins Lane back to its earlier rave atmosphere, criticising increasingly ‘stereo-typed’ events and advertising elaborate sound, laser and visual production.
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- Destiny
- Venue
- Jenkins Lane, Barking
- Condition
- Good to Very Good appearance, ungraded. Light edge/corner wear, minor handling creases and surface marks. Lower edge slight waviness/creasing; reverse small lower-right edge crease. Printing vivid and legible.
- Completeness
- Complete double-sided flyer as photographed. Both faces supplied; no separate component evidenced.
- Event relationship
- Destiny — Jenkins Lane
- Venue relationship
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Catalogue note
Double-sided flyer for Destiny at Jenkins Lane, Barking, 10 October 1992. The front uses a dramatically colour-separated multi-armed figure and floating spheres; the reverse promises to bring Jenkins Lane back to its earlier rave atmosphere, criticising increasingly ‘stereo-typed’ events and advertising elaborate sound, laser and visual production. Lineup includes Grooverider, Simon Bassline Smith, Easygroove, Jumping Jack Frost, Ellis Dee and Nicky Black Market.
Advertised programme: Selected significant billed performers: Grooverider, Simon (Bassline) Smith, Easygroove, Jumping Jack Frost, Ellis Dee and Nicky Black Market. John Douglin is credited for airbrush work. These relationships follow the retained reverse-image evidence; billing does not establish actual performance. The remaining printed credits, including Clifford, DD/Hitek Graphics and Lou/Smiley Face, remain in the accession evidence without inferring fuller identities.
Historical context: Contemporary Ravescene listings independently place Destiny at Jenkins Lane, Barking, on 10 October 1992. The flyer itself says Destiny intended to bring Jenkins Lane ‘back and beyond its former days of raves’ and criticises raves becoming ‘stereo-typed’. This is recorded as the promoter’s contemporary claim.
Condition note: Age-appropriate handling wear; no major tears/losses. No restoration inferred.
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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
Gold Star. Documents a major east-London rave site at the height of the 1992 hardcore/rave transition, with an exceptional lineup and unusually explicit promoter commentary about how rave culture had changed over the previous two years. The reverse is contemporary scene testimony as well as advertising. Strong graphic design and relationships to TMR’s early-1990s rave holdings add institutional value.
Historical context
Contemporary Ravescene listings independently place Destiny at Jenkins Lane, Barking, on 10 October 1992. The flyer itself says Destiny intended to bring Jenkins Lane ‘back and beyond its former days of raves’ and criticises raves becoming ‘stereo-typed’. This is recorded as the promoter’s contemporary claim.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9.3 / 10 · Gold Star.
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