The Pavillion

The reason I think Circus stopped was because they moved and started a night called Space Funk, which was at 131 Portland Street. The first one was in March 1992 and it ended March 1993. That was a really important night in lots of different ways and in the venue upstairs you went on to the dancefloor, you went right to the bar and it was sort of a bar in the middle of the room. Everything was nice, it was sort of like going into, not a hotel, but kind of a classy joint that all these other clubs weren’t, you know? Because they were all a bit dirty and sometimes the toilets were blocked and these were all things you dealt with [laughter] you know what I mean in the 90s? But this was nice, this was a really nice venue you know. The bartenders would serve you spirits and shooting them straight into the glass, they weren’t measuring shots and all that sort of nonsense. It was just fired out, it was continental, it was all sort of European.

It was important for, one of the reasons was just in terms of the actual venue because it was a restaurant but it had this really sort of ornate opening, a massive big door which you walked through and then there was a really tall ceiling and sort of walk-way, entrance-way sort of hallway and if you walked up a set of steps there was a fish tank which you walked over obviously, a glass ceilinged fish tank [laughter] on the steps up. I don’t know if that influenced Mark Cain when he opened Velvet or not, but whether they were the same fish I don’t know.