RuffAge — The System Live
Room 101, Pepper Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme · Saturday 8 May 1993 · DJ Dream / The System
8 May 1993 · 9:30pm–2:00am
Original RuffAge flyer for Room 101, Pepper Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, advertising the weekly Saturday hardcore selection with DJ Dream and special guests and a live appearance by The System on 8 May 1993. The flyer preserves exact hours and admission, a custom RuffAge identity, cartoon/circuit-style graphic treatment and the printed 'Flyer by the Noyce!'
Read the catalogue note →- Event
- RuffAge — The System Live
- Promoter
- RuffAge
- Venue
- Room 101
- Location
- 101 Pepper St., Newcastle-under-Lyme; flyer additionally prints 'Stoke On Trent'
- Advertised hours
- 9:30pm–2:00am
- Original admission / price
- £3 before 11pm; £4 after
- Designer
- The Noyce — printed flyer credit; full identity unresolved
- Format
- Single-sided portrait event flyer / weekly club handbill
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Original / reproduction
- Original-period 1993 promotional flyer attribution based on event-specific printing, period venue details, admission, hours and physical handling; no evidence of later reproduction is visible.
- Condition
- Good to Very Good appearance, ungraded; light handling with small right-edge puncture/staple-type marks and minor creasing; fully legible.
- Completeness
- Complete single-sided flyer as photographed; printed front and blank reverse present.
- Event relationship
- RuffAge — The System Live · 1993-05-08
- Venue relationship
- Browse Room 101 objects
Catalogue note
Original RuffAge flyer for Room 101, Pepper Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, advertising the weekly Saturday hardcore selection with DJ Dream and special guests and a live appearance by The System on 8 May 1993. The flyer preserves exact hours and admission, a custom RuffAge identity, cartoon/circuit-style graphic treatment and the printed 'Flyer by the Noyce!' design credit.
Advertised programme: DJ Dream and special guests play the 'HARDCORE selection' every Saturday. Saturday 8 May 1993: The System live, billed 'Leads the Chaos'.
Graphic-design significance: Distinctive low-budget club-flyer design combining the custom RuffAge wordmark, cartoon figure, radiating geometric forms and circuit-like linear decoration. The front carries the explicit credit 'Flyer by the Noyce!', preserved without expanding the designer identity beyond the printed evidence.
Historical context: The flyer documents RuffAge as a weekly Saturday hardcore night at Room 101, 101 Pepper Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, with £3 admission before 11pm and £4 after. Specialist flyer evidence independently places Room 101 in active dance-club use in Newcastle-under-Lyme later in 1993, while later scene testimony records resident and guest DJs at the venue. This object adds a precisely dated 8 May 1993 local hardcore programme to TMR's growing Staffordshire/Midlands rave record.
Production note: Monochrome black print on cream/yellow uncoated paper or light card; exact printing process and stock not established.
Condition note: Good to Very Good appearance, ungraded. Light edge/corner handling and mild surface wear. Three small puncture/staple-type holes or abrasions with localized indentation along the right edge, visible correspondingly on the blank reverse. Minor lower handling creasing. Fully legible with no major tears, paper loss, writing or staining visible.
Confidence / uncertainty: The exact event date, venue, hours, admission, DJ Dream billing, The System live billing and 'Flyer by the Noyce!' credit are physically verified from the object. 'The System' is preserved as a printed act name without authority linkage because its exact identity is unresolved. The Noyce credit is likewise not expanded to a legal or full name. DJ Dream is treated as a stage-name performer; no legal identity is inferred.
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Historical context
The flyer documents RuffAge as a weekly Saturday hardcore night at Room 101, 101 Pepper Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, with £3 admission before 11pm and £4 after. Specialist flyer evidence independently places Room 101 in active dance-club use in Newcastle-under-Lyme later in 1993, while later scene testimony records resident and guest DJs at the venue. This object adds a precisely dated 8 May 1993 local hardcore programme to TMR's growing Staffordshire/Midlands rave record.
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Archive Importance: 8.8 / 10.
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