Harmony Promotions — Sex Up the Dance House

Catalogue note

Original Harmony Promotions flyer for 'Sex Up the Dance House' at The Institute, Digbeth, Birmingham, on Saturday 12 June 1993. Sasha, Angel and Danny Hussain are featured, with Tomislav as resident, Colin Dread / DJ Shag / Simon Owen in 'The Bassment', and Ryan in the chill space. The flyer pairs a monochrome portrait front with a dark typographic reverse and documents Birmingham's progressive-house club culture alongside TMR's contemporaneous hardcore and jungle holdings.

Advertised programme: Featuring: Sasha, Angel, Danny Hussain. Resident: Tomislav. The Bassment: Colin Dread, DJ Shag, Simon Owen. Chill with Ryan.

Graphic-design significance: The flyer deliberately contrasts a stark photographic portrait on the front with a near-black typographic reverse dominated by the oversized outlined phrase 'sex up the dance house'. The subdued palette and fashion-like portrait presentation differ sharply from the psychedelic and cartoon-heavy rave flyers surrounding it in the archive. No designer or photographer credit is visible, and the person shown on the front is left unidentified rather than inferred from the billing.

Historical context: Specialist DJ-set archives independently preserve a June 1993 Sasha set from Harmony at The Institute in Birmingham, corroborating the promoter/venue/Sasha relationship in the same month as this dated flyer. MixesDB also indexes 1993 Harmony material from The Institute, while broader rave chronologies show the Digbeth venue as a major early-1990s club and rave site. This flyer therefore adds exact-date material evidence to a nightlife context that also survives through recorded mixes.

Production note: Monochrome photographic front and dark ink reverse on coated paper/card stock; exact printing process and stock weight not established.

Condition note: Good to Very Good appearance, ungraded. Light edge and corner handling, scattered small surface marks and rubbing, with minor lower-edge abrasion and a few small pin/staple-type marks. The dark reverse shows visible light speckling from handling/print wear but remains fully legible. No major tears or paper loss visible.

Confidence / uncertainty: The exact date, venue, event title, admission and all printed performer/resident credits are physically verified. Sasha is linked to the existing TMR authority because the printed name and period context are secure. Angel, Danny Hussain, Tomislav, Colin Dread, DJ Shag, Simon Owen and Ryan are retained as printed credits without authority linkage because their exact identities are not yet sufficiently resolved. The photographic subject on the front is intentionally not identified from appearance.

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