Aspects of Dance — Friday 21 October 1994
A.O.D. · Function Room at 5th Avenue, Laxton Square, Peterborough · Julz / Baffy / Pat Unwin
Friday 21 October 1994 · 9pm–2am
Original single-sided Aspects of Dance (A.O.D.) flyer for Friday 21 October 1994 at the function room of 5th Avenue, Laxton Square, Peterborough. Striking pink and teal freeform abstract graphics frame vast shadowed ASPECT'S OF DANCE typography and a clean white information column advertising Julz, Baffy (Temptations/Tudor Oaks) and Pat Unwin for house, garage, trance and old-school, 9pm–2am with £3 before 11pm / £4 after entry. The original also announces 'A.O.D. back 4th November'. Its plain back and prominent cross-folds document physical circulation. Local music-history research identifies 5th Avenue's former county-court building and Met Lounge's 1991–99 tenure within it; independent local venue material names DJ Pat Unwin in later programme listings. Specific original nightclub operations, date of the 4 November return and print-run remain unverified.
Read the catalogue note →- Event
- Aspects of Dance (A.O.D.), Friday 21 October 1994
- Promoter
- Aspects of Dance / A.O.D. (the event/club-night brand physically printed). The promoter's legal name, founders and relationship to 5th Avenue's management are not established.
- Venue
- Function Room, 5th Avenue
- Location
- 5th Avenue, Laxton Square, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (printed; 'beside market'). A present-day real-estate and council description identifies the former 5th Avenue building at Laxton Square/City Road, PE1 1UQ, but this later postal detail is contextual, NOT a postcode shown on the original.
- Advertised hours
- 9pm–2am printed for the 21 October club night; a licensed bar is advertised. No exact bar closing time stated.
- Original admission / price
- £3.00 before 11pm, £4.00 after 11pm, as printed ('£3.00 b4 11 - £4.00 after'). These are 1994 nightclub charges, NOT a present-day valuation for the flyer.
- Designer
- No graphic designer, studio or artist name identified on printed face; no attribution invented.
- Format
- Landscape single sheet, one-sided colour-print club flyer with truly blank reverse. A pronounced crossing vertical and horizontal original fold creates four folded quadrants; intended folded distribution format not proven.
- Dimensions
- Unmeasured. No physical scale included; no unsupported size or stock weight.
- Orientation
- Landscape front, blank landscape reverse.
- Original / reproduction
- High-confidence period-original October 1994 promotional item, based on explicit date and era-specific printing, regional venue-era independent history and photographed physical wear. Paper manufacture/provenance unverified.
- Edition / variant
- Specific Aspects of Dance / 'ASPECT'S OF DANCE' 21 October 1994 printed variant listing Julz, Baffy and Pat Unwin at 5th Avenue and advising 'A.O.D. back 4th November'. No verified reprints, print-order, or formal issue number. Other listed 'Aspects of Dance 1994' original flyers with different performers might be separate months/events but exact designs/physical print states not compared.
- Condition
- Good to Good+ (photo-based, intersecting fold creases and modest surface/edge wear).
- Completeness
- Complete as a single-sided club flyer: full colour printed face and blank reverse separately photographed.
- Absolute rarity
- Unknown; no production run, dated surviving copy count or comparable print-state census. A different dealer-listed 1994 Aspects of Dance programme does not establish scarcity or this exact design's edition status.
- Acquisition rarity
- Not assessed.
- Event relationship
- Aspects of Dance — main-room programme · 1994-10-21
- Event relationship
- Aspects of Dance — advertised return · 1994-11-04 (provisional date)
- Venue relationship
- Browse Function Room, 5th Avenue objects
Catalogue note
Original single-sided Aspects of Dance (A.O.D.) flyer for Friday 21 October 1994 at the function room of 5th Avenue, Laxton Square, Peterborough. Striking pink and teal freeform abstract graphics frame vast shadowed ASPECT'S OF DANCE typography and a clean white information column advertising Julz, Baffy (Temptations/Tudor Oaks) and Pat Unwin for house, garage, trance and old-school, 9pm–2am with £3 before 11pm / £4 after entry. The original also announces 'A.O.D. back 4th November'. Its plain back and prominent cross-folds document physical circulation. Local music-history research identifies 5th Avenue's former county-court building and Met Lounge's 1991–99 tenure within it; independent local venue material names DJ Pat Unwin in later programme listings. Specific original nightclub operations, date of the 4 November return and print-run remain unverified.
Advertised programme: MAIN ROOM: Julz; Baffy (printed 'Temptations/Tudor Oaks' under Baffy, nature of affiliation unverified); Pat Unwin. No MC or live acts named. Promoter advertises House, Garage, Trance, Old School. Performers' appearance not independently proven.
Graphic-design significance: A confident mid-1990s graphic vocabulary combining hot pink, teal-green amorphous net/mosaic shapes and massive staggered black-shadow dimensional white letterforms, contrasting with a restrained white announcement column in pink and teal. Visually distinct from the highly illustrated/prodigy-headline flyers of 1991, and an example of affordable print identity for modest city-centre dance events. The face appears styled 'ASPECT'S OF DANCE' with a decorative apostrophe, while the brand is catalogued in normalized form 'Aspects of Dance'; exact printed spelling is retained.
Historical context: Regional music historian They Played Peterborough identifies 5th Avenue Nightspot at Laxton Square in the former Court building, and documents the Met Lounge occupying it from 1991 to 1999 before moving to Bridge Street. Peterborough City Council later called the building a locally listed former courthouse, and a specialist property agent identifies the same Laxton Square premises as a former 5th Avenue bar/nightclub. The original 1994 handbill therefore evidences another named club event in that building, not a Met Lounge co-presentation: no involvement of Met Lounge is printed or assumed. A later local Charters Bar original gig notice advertises 'DJ Pat Unwin' for funk, soul, hip hop and house, offering name/place continuity but not independently certifying the person or this original set. 'A.O.D. back 4th November' documents a prospective return, not a verified event.
Production note: Full-colour/limited-palette printed flyer on pale paper; stock and reproduction process not confirmed by photographs.
Condition note: Good to Good+ from photographs. Prominent intersecting vertical and horizontal fold creases visible from both sides; some crease whitening and handling/abrasion through teal-pink printed face; minor corner/edge scuffs, small surface flecks and light reverse soiling/discolouration. Original remains intact, clear and fully legible with no visible large tears, extensive paper losses, adhesive tape or holes. Not mint/uncirculated; fold could have been original distribution or later handling, unverified.
Confidence / uncertainty: PHYSICALLY VERIFIED: Aspects of Dance/A.O.D., Friday 21 October 1994, main room Julz/Baffy/Pat Unwin, Temptations/Tudor Oaks parenthetical, genres, Function Room/5th Avenue at Laxton Square, 9pm–2am, £3 before 11 and £4 after, licensed bar, advertised 4 November return, blank reverse and cross-fold. INDEPENDENT VERIFIED: historic 5th Avenue site and 1991–1999 Met Lounge co-location, former courthouse and later continuing DJ Pat Unwin namesake. UNVERIFIED: every advertised DJ actually played; provenance of name affiliations; whether 4 November event happened; underlying label ownership, exact design studio, print run, uncommon variant, owner provenance or resale price.
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Historical context
Regional music historian They Played Peterborough identifies 5th Avenue Nightspot at Laxton Square in the former Court building, and documents the Met Lounge occupying it from 1991 to 1999 before moving to Bridge Street. Peterborough City Council later called the building a locally listed former courthouse, and a specialist property agent identifies the same Laxton Square premises as a former 5th Avenue bar/nightclub. The original 1994 handbill therefore evidences another named club event in that building, not a Met Lounge co-presentation: no involvement of Met Lounge is printed or assumed. A later local Charters Bar original gig notice advertises 'DJ Pat Unwin' for funk, soul, hip hop and house, offering name/place continuity but not independently certifying the person or this original set. 'A.O.D. back 4th November' documents a prospective return, not a verified event.
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Archive Importance: 7.9 / 10.
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