Amnesia House - The Beginning 1988 part 2

Amnesia House profile part 1

Shelly's was a mecca for rave. Things went on at Shelly's which no other club experienced. For example, Altern8 performing a live PA in the car park for the ravers at 3am after the club was close!  Neville was not only a promoter, but also appeared as security at their events, then he began to go on the mic at Shelly's. He wasn't really an MC, he was just giving a shout out to the crowd - he never MCd for any other organisations. However, his friends said he should be called Loud N Nasty. Shelly's was sadly closed down, the police stopped them from getting their Entertainment's Licence. Amnesia House found this to be a great loss for they had had 18 months in there and found it to be some of the best times. The Eclipse was still being used by Amnesia House, and was becoming more and more popular at their parties on Fridays.

Donnington Park was the next big step. The first Donnington Park event was July 9, yet again standards not dropping, and on the best DJ and MC line up, and the first event pulled in 7500 people, showing they had a mass following. The only thing letting them down was the sound system, and after four events there, with the sound system getting letting them own each time, they thought it was best to move on for they felt that they were letting down the ravers. If Amnesia House would have stayed at Donnington Park, they would have been offered the event that Fantazia did in the open air for 25000 people. 1992 saw Amnesia House start preparing for the 'Book of Love' event, featuring the wedding of their then partner, Mickey Lynas. Amnesia House could still have done the event without the marriage of Mickey, but although it was to the disagreement of Bambam and Neville they decided to let it go ahead as it was just an extra attraction on stage, and in fairness it did go down well.

Two years previously, Mickey Lynas had a dream. He wanted to get married on stage in front of 15000 people. On that day his dream came true. Other members of Amnesia House did not want him to do the wedding for they knew that they could pull the numbers in anyway, but Mickey and Nemesis thought that they could get all the DJs and PAs to play for free... but they all got paid in the end. The event was an unbelievable success, all the DJs played very well, the weather stayed dry and fine and there was an excellent atmosphere in the crowd all night. The sound system and lighting was to Amnesia House's usual high standards.

THE FALLOUT

It was after the wedding that Amnesia House and Mickey fell out over money. Mickey decided to go his separate way and leave Amnesia House and started up a company called Dance Trance. This proved a very emotional time for Neville and Bambam because of all the hard work they had put into the 'Book of Love'. They could not believe there was no money left to put on their next event, they felt they had been conned, they did not make a penny, in fact a loss, so they were back to square one. Amnesia went back to their roots and started all over again back at The Eclipse, still pulling in the crowds of 2000 and more and holding their heads up high, they hadn't lost peoples faith. Neville and Bambam believe in a different style of event keeping it unique to Amnesia, always booking the country's top DJs. Everyone that goes knows what to expect.

Leading up to Xmas they had some really busy nights, on Boxing Day it was packed, but their real biggy was New Years Eve. Neville and Bambam found things to be ticking over just fine. Amnesia House was left alone for a while when a big shock came for everyone - "The Wedding Anniversary", although they didn't call it Amnesia House Mickey used all the original pictures from the first event and gave out free videos leading people to believe that it was an Amnesia House event. The original Amnesia House came back with a vengeance. They did an event at 'The Sanctuary', even though it was bad timing as there were a lot of other big events going off at the same time, the production was still spot on and it was still a huge success, Amnesia House still pulled a large crowd proving they are still a leading promoter in the UK. Amnesia's next big event was at 'The Institute' in Birmingham and it was crammed in.

(story ends October 1993)

Amnesia are still around today and are still putting on parties.
 

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