Brighton Clubland Institution Calls It A Day

Wow, it really is the end of an era then. It’s official — Stompa Phunk has called it a day, in terms of weekly club nights anyway. The underground house night is ending a more than ten year run with a final party that brings together some of the key players at the night: Deepgroove and Orbital/Long Range’s Phil Hartnoll alongside long time residents David Parr and Tula. It takes place on Friday 14th March.

Everyone will have their memories of favourite nights — normally massive stars like Derrick Carter or Josh Wink playing in venues smaller than the cloakrooms of the clubs they typically played in. Our fave memory is the time that Ralph Lawson brought the 2020 Vision crew down to squeeze in 45 minutes sets for his wife’s birthday. All was going well until the after-party where Luke Solomon fell asleep in the middle of the room with a box on his head, while Ralph and Carl Finlow did the washing up and cleaned the whole kitchen for fun.

Stompa Phunk promise some one-offs in the future, but until then we’ll leave you with a list of some of the DJs they blagged to come down.

Laurent Garnier, Norman Cook, Josh Wink, Derrick Carter, Phil Hartnoll, Ralph Lawson, Lottie, Dave Angel, Darren Emerson, FC Kahuna, Metro Area, Rolando, Evil Nine, Ivan Smagghe, James Holden, Andrew Weatherall, Ewan Pearson, DJ Heather, Simian Mobile Disco, Mula, Tiefschwarz, Koma & Bones, Nic Fanciulli, Craig Richards, D. Ramirez, Will Saul, Damian Lazarus, Layo & Bushwacka!, Mr. C, Crazy P, Green Velvet, Luke Solomon, Midfield General, Andy Mac, Deepgroove, Paul Woolford, Carl Finlow, Dave Mothersole, Eddie Richards, Nathan Coles, Hakan Libdo, Dirt Crew, Nathan Fake, Mark Knight, our friends at Mulletover, Secretsundaze, Sancho Panza, Technique, The End, Kliks, Ape-X, Covert, Rounder, Hedonizm, Catskills, Positive, Skint, Underwater, 20:20 Vision, Rekids, Bugged Out, and of course, the ever-reliable residents over the years — David Parr, Serge Santiago, Matt ‘Radioslave’ Edwards, Tula, Dan Hill, Cagedbaby, Kenny Hawkes, Lee Smith, and Holly Cooper.