Disco Biscuits at Kiss — Monday Bliss Revival

Catalogue note

Original double-sided flyer for the return of the Monday Bliss tradition as 'Disco Biscuits' at Kiss, Heysham Road, Aintree, Liverpool, starting Monday 21 June, attributed at high confidence to 1993. The flyer explicitly remembers the former weekly Bliss nights at Fallows and announces their return at Kiss with original Monday Bliss DJ Ralphie and 3 Beat Records' Rob Jay, while advertising Evolution, Robin S and Sub Sub as 'live + forthcoming'. Independent Liverpool history confirms Fallows closed in 1992 and the transformed Kiss venue opened on the same Heysham Road site in November 1992, making the flyer unusually clear evidence of continuity in local club audiences and promoter memory.

Advertised programme: Weekly music from Ralphie — billed as 'Original Monday Bliss DJ' — and Rob Jay of 3 Beat Records. Live + forthcoming acts advertised: Evolution; Robin S; Sub Sub.

Graphic-design significance: The illustrated face uses a large hand-painted red tongue/lips motif licking a circular 'Disco Biscuits' device, with bubble-lettering and bold black KISS X typography. It is playful, bodily and deliberately informal, contrasting with the reverse's clean teal-and-white information design. Cheshire Print & Design is physically credited for print/design on the reverse; whether that credit encompasses the front illustration specifically is not separated, so no individual artist is inferred.

Historical context: Liverpool Echo archive material records Fallows as a popular Heysham Road club known particularly for Monday and Thursday nights, closing in 1992. The site was extensively rebuilt and Kiss opened in November 1992 as a dance-oriented venue. This flyer consciously revives the former Monday Bliss tradition at that successor venue. Its artist references also fit 1993 closely: Robin S's 'Show Me Love' and Sub Sub's 'Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)' were prominent in UK dance culture that spring, while the flyer calls Evolution, Robin S and Sub Sub 'live + forthcoming'.

Production note: Colour illustrated face with two-colour teal/white information reverse on coated paper/card stock; exact process/stock not established.

Condition note: Very Good to Excellent appearance, ungraded. Light edge/corner handling and minor surface marks are visible, with several small pinholes/punctures along the lower edge of the illustrated face. Colour remains strong and both sides are highly legible; no major tears or paper loss.

Confidence / uncertainty: 21 June and Monday recurrence are physically printed; 1993 is a high-confidence attribution based on venue chronology, calendar alignment and contemporaneous artist context. The flyer does not specify whether Evolution, Robin S and Sub Sub were confirmed personal appearances or promoted forthcoming acts; they are therefore recorded exactly as 'LIVE + FORTHCOMING' rather than as confirmed performers. Ralphie and Rob Jay remain printed DJ credits without new People authorities because exact identity evidence is insufficient. Existing The Bliss Organisation authority is reused, but the relationship between that authority and the flyer’s local 'Bliss' wording should remain evidence-led.

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