Name: FATHOM 30yr Reunion with Third Eye
Start: 2024-06-29T05:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-06-29T10:00:00+01:00
Location: Hare & Hounds Kings Heath

Fathom's first gig in 1994 was an all dayer at The Malt Shovel, which turned into an all night house party, people dancing on top of the backyard wall till 7am.
A Friday night warm up residency at the newly opened Medicine Bar followed, leading to an all night Warehouse Rave in the Custard Factory.
Aardvark Vegan Cafe all nighters over 2 floors where a huge success, with Atomic Jam Djs coming to spin afterwards
This led to a back room at Atomic Jam, a couple of mental nights at Screamers with the Wolves crew, 'morning after' parties at the West End Bar and some outrageous nights in the mirrored garden at The Market Tavern, dancing till noon the next day!
NYE 99/2000 was seen in at Satans Paradise and a final out-door free party in the sand dunes at Gower finished us off in style!
Fathom was a good time, a crowd of friends who had all met on the loved up dance-floors of Brum, our DJ's where free to play whatever they liked, but we where deadly serious about the music, no cheesy shite ever got on the Fathom decks, the only rule we had was every tune had to be really f'in good!
At a time when everyone went genre specific, we preferred to mix it up and go from Acid to Progressive to bangin' House ,Techno to D&B, Rave and back down to Deep House, with some random 80's tunes thrown in, and MC Tickle providing the cheeky lyrics to keep the loved up Rave vibe alive!
DJs
Sir Real – Third Eye resident who went on to co-found House of God and his Festival 'Unorthodox Paradox', a mainstay on the Birmingham music scene, i've danced to Sir Real's sets more than any other DJ i reckon, but he's leaving the banging Techno at home tonight and digging deep for some 'Ecstatic tunes from the golden era' that he used to play at Third Eye
Grindi – Third Eye founder/DJ – Snobs, Que Club, dodgy warehouses , we went wherever Grindi was playing, as he had THE TUNES we wanted to hear.
Third Eye was all about psychedelic acid tinged progressive music that seemed to be everywhere in the early 90's – Leftfield/Underworld/DrumClub/Spooky/Orbital/Grid/MBM/Weatherall– that intersection of live/alternative/acid/festival/rave/summeroflove vibes that drew in people who wanted to dance but not to hyper-speed breaks and cheesy MC's. It felt like home for our crowd of students and misfits.
Grindi is back on the decks for one night only, so if you where there you wont want to miss this one, and if your not an old git, you can hear why us old ravers get all misty eyed and excited over these tunes
DJ Pedro – Fathom resident, came up from London's Juno Records where he worked, with the latest imports, hard edged progressive house bangers that where the coolest tunes on the planet as far as we where concerned, the studios in the US/Holland seemingly years ahead production wise of most anything else we'd heard, sending us into the stratosphere of dance floor ecstasy, before every gig people would ask ' Is Pedro playing?'
Dj Titan – Fathom founder/DJ – Titan was drum n bass obsessed for the first few years, Alex Reese and all that quality Metelheadz stuff , but an infamous trip to London saw him see the light and switch to speed Garage. All the future classics got played, bringing a fresh wild abandon from the crowd just as things where starting to look jaded
DJ Spotter – Fathom Founder – i was too busy dancing, chatting and supplying the 'vibes' to DJ properly, but i had some good tunes, so would go on the decks when people where past caring. 30 yrs later and i've had time to practise, gone back and bought all those massive tunes i loved,I'm back visiting from Canada for one night only, and cant wait to rock the Fathom dance-floor!
MC Tickle – One of the few MC's to not do my nut in, he got on the Mic at our first Malt Shovel gig and never left. He brings the crowd up, keeps them vibing together, and pisses the serious techno bods off. Perfect
1994 was seriously nuts. Sweat dripped off ceilings, hugging strangers, giving massages rolling around on bouncy castles, hands in the air, sniffing poppers, shouting and screaming approval of good tunes, no phones, no moody faces. It was an ecstatic blissful loved up scene, so let the music take us back for a few hours and feel that vibe one more time, come on!