This week takes us to the first ever Pleasuredome at Fantasy Island. Pleasuredome started off at Festival Pavilion in Skegness in 1992 and would remain there until the end of 1993 bar a couple of events at Venue 44 in Mansfield. Then in 1994 they moved to Eastgate Leisure Centre in Ingoldmells which is a small town just north of Skegness up until a couple of weeks before this event.
This is arguably the venue the Pleasuredome is best remember for being at and they would remain there until mid-97. Unfortunately this event has no tapes so I won't be able to comments on the tunes which were played.
There were 3 rooms at this event, the main room which had a mixture of genres, the second room was house and the third room was drum & bass.
In the main room were resident DJs Fergus and Rush who were also residents at Vibealite plus Brisk, Ratty and Easygroove.
It's a pretty safe bet that Brisk was playing happy hardcore, but what the other DJs were playing was anyone's guess. An interview with Gary from Vibealite stated that Fergus and Rush would adapt their sets to suit the night as resident DJs, presumably the same would apply to Pleasuredome. Easygroove isn't one you can slot into a particular genre and although Ratty was better known for doing drum & bass, he didn't play it all the time.
My guess is that it would have been more happy hardcore given that drum & bass was already catered for in the 3rd room.
That's pretty much all I've got to say. I'm sure Pleasuredome will feature again but hopefully there will be tapes to listen to from the next one.
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