Slipmatt at Radius — The Solstice, Peterborough

Catalogue note

Original A4 owner-reported, single-sided Slipmatt/RADIUS at The Solstice promotional flyer for Friday 8 October 2010 at Northminster, Peterborough, 9pm–2am. Deep-blue/violet club/equalizer design advertises Slipmatt with MC 3-Flow, DJ String, Jay Palm and NSK B2B and DJ Glory, £8 tickets, over-18 admission, 'old/nu skool rave breaks jungle DNB', and free UV face painting. Facebook, Skiddle and DontStayIn logos/links provide contemporary evidence of online/social-network rave-event publicity compared with the record-shop sales networks of earlier rave ephemera. CAMRA independently confirms Radius as the upstairs space in The Solstice; dated entertainment histories confirm 2010 use. Distinct MC 3-Flow is corroborated by other 2007/2010 rave-event listings. Exact advertised night independently unconfirmed. Reverse unprinted with minor smudges; no TMR duplicate.

Advertised programme: Headline: SLIPMATT ALONG SIDE MC 3-FLOW; repeated billing 'DJ SLIPMATT WITH MC 3 FLOW'. DJ STRING; JAY PALM & NSK ('GOING B2B ON THE DECKS'); DJ GLORY. All named performances advertised, not independently established as completed. No inferred identity/authority matches for String, Jay Palm, NSK or Glory.

Graphic-design significance: An evocative example of 2010 British rave-revival promotional design: oversized square-edged pale-blue and white SLIPMATT headline, flanking 'the solstice entertainment venue' marks, cursive Radius wordmark over pixel/equalizer bars, deep ultraviolet-blue/violet gradient, faint DJ equipment deck photograph, spaced techno-style white event typography, and a bottom row of Facebook, Skiddle and DontStayIn promotional marks. The style juxtaposes legacy rave billing with social-networking and web-ticket infrastructure, unlike the dense record-shop outlet grids of TMR's 1991–96 rave originals. No designer credit or famous-artwork attribution is present.

Historical context: On 8 October 2010 a Peterborough flyer advertised DJ Slipmatt as the headliner at Radius with MC 3-Flow and regional acts String, Jay Palm & NSK B2B and DJ Glory. His own official retrospective identifies Slipmatt's longstanding role in the rave circuit and SL2's 'DJs Take Control'/'On A Ragga Tip' releases, giving this 2010 small-room booking a generational link to the archive's foundational 1991–96 rave records. Independent event listings establish MC 3-Flow was a recurring old-school MC by 2006–10: 2007 Epidemik 20 Years of Dance at Ministry of Sound and September 2010 Nu-Rave Awards include him, but neither verifies this exact Peterborough performance. Peterborough & District CAMRA's venue research identifies Radius as the upstairs function/event room of The Solstice, and archival Ents24 comedy-event listings verify Radius performing space in early and mid-2010. The poster advertises old/nu-skool rave, breaks, jungle, DnB, and free UV face painting. It promotes £8 admission through The Solstice bar or Skiddle, an event page under Facebook's 'happy.dayz1' username, and the DontStayIn nightlife-social-network logo; all are primary evidence of digital and physical promotional channels coexisting. These old URLs are not assumed operational today. No independently corroborated exact 8 October event listing, attendance or individual DJ set recording was found.

Production note: Front full-colour printing on pale/uncoated-looking paper verso; actual ink technology, finishing, stock type/weight and print-house unverified.

Condition note: Full edge and corners largely intact with minor corner whitening/softening, small edge waviness and a faint upper-right tip bend; isolated rubbing/speckles over dark front, particularly top and background; light rubbing at lower margin. White/unprinted back shows uneven faint grey-brown smudges/spotting in the upper-left/upper-central region and small isolated flecks, plus subtle paper surface/handling marks. No prominent deep transverse fold, large tear or major missing paper visible. Apparent lighting/shadows and the actual cause of verso discolouration cannot be distinguished conclusively. Exact paper weight, dimensions, unseen repairs and professional conservation grade require direct inspection.

Confidence / uncertainty: Date, advertised venue address, names, 9pm–2am, £8 admission, over-18 rule, advertised genres, UV face painting, Skiddle/Ticket logo, Facebook Happy Dayz URL, DontStayIn logo and named 'Eda' contact are physically readable. The printed words 'Radius' and 'the solstice entertainment venue' are independently verified as linked names of separate upstairs room and host building, not necessarily different event promoters. The flyer contains no explicit event or promoter brand beyond featured Slipmatt/venue, so public title is descriptive not a formally established event-series name. MC 3-Flow has independent contemporaneous multi-event references but no personal/legal name safely identified. 'Jay Palm & NSK' is a back-to-back pairing only, not one named permanent musical group. The plain reverse is not a lost panel or second print side. A4 from owner rule, unmeasured. No exact event occurrence, print count, value, studio/design credit or known provenance.

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