mulletover toasts to ten years

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  • Dyed Soundorom, Laura Jones and Ryan Elliott will play at the party's anniversary at Pulse.
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  • London party mulletover will celebrate ten years with a party at Pulse featuring the likes of Ryan Elliott, Dyed Soundorom and Laura Jones. Founded by Rob Star and Stuart Geddes, mulletover has long been one of the city's best-known house and techno events, with heavy-hitting lineups in all sorts of locations. The party will celebrate its tenth birthday on Thursday, April 17th, at Pulse in London Bridge. In addition to Elliott, Jones and Dyed Soundorom, Meat, Futureboogie and resident DJ Geddes are also on the bill, with more names to be announced soon. We recently spoke with Rob Star via email to discuss the highs and lows of the party:
    How did you guys come together to start mulletover? Stu actually had the idea for mulletover with his initial partners Kelly Love and Jafar. Unfortunately they lost the venue for their first party (this has been an ongoing theme in our history). At the time, I was running an illegal party space in Aldgate and I invited them to host one of the floors at an event I was doing. The party was amazing and from there we continued to work together, putting on parties every month for the first few years. How has London's clubbing landscape changed since you started the party? In those days, you couldn't get a TEN (temporary event notice) to license a venue, so the parties we put on weren't strictly legal. This meant we had to hold our parties as private, invite-only events, which meant not much advertising and lots of cat and mouse games with the police and the council! We started the event as a reaction against the more mainstream clubs in London, which we felt didn't have the same vibe as more underground parties. This seems pretty strange now as everyone bemoans the loss of The Key, The Cross, Turnmills etc., but at the time we weren't always that keen to go to those places! Now it's the opposite, with no clubs everyone puts on parties in TBC venues and things have gone full circle, with promoters under the same restrictions that stopped me wanting do parties in clubs in the first place (large hire fees, over-the-top security, the need to put a big name on to fill the venue, etc.). I wouldn't like to say we are in a worse position now, things are just different, and there are still some great parties happening. What have been some of the biggest hurdles you've faced in those ten years? Venues have always been an issue. Even with our tenth birthday, we had last minute venue dramas, meaning we had to delay the announcement of the event. This can get a bit tiresome after ten years! The issues we had with the cloakroom a few years ago was obviously a major low for us. This also stemmed from us losing the original venue for the event (The Pleasure Gardens) and the greed of the person who ran the venue we moved to in Hackney Wick. Their inexperience in running that venue meant some people didn't have a great time at that party, which ultimately we had to take responsibility for. Putting on amazing parties is the ultimate reason for us doing this, and we thought long and hard about giving things up after that, but we didn't want to end the party with that as our legacy. Since then we've had some really amazing events. Are there any parties from the past decade that stand out as the best mulletover experiences? We've got so many stories from the past ten years, but the defining events for me are the first ever party, the secret parties in the hills of Ibiza, the forest party, the Kwik Fit rave and the events at Seager Storage Units.
    Tickets to the party are available here on RA.

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