Lost in the Lights

Shelley’s Laserdome in Stoke was an important early hardcore venue. In February 1991 the Coventry crew Amnesia House took over Saturday nights there, bringing a big Midlands rave following with them.

Opening nights featured the likes of Grooverider, Stu Allan and Doc Scott, with a live PA from N-Joi. Queues were often a thousand deep and the nights regularly made the local news.

The nights

It became part of the circuit that included the Eclipse and other Midlands venues. Ravers leaving Shelley’s at dawn would often stop at Sandbach Services on the M6 and carry on in the car park.

What happened to it

Like many of the early venues it didn’t last into the later 90s in the same form. The building has long since gone or been converted.