Club Profile  

The Edge - Coventry - Profile 1993

We’ve all heard of The Edge, from Scotland to Cornwall, from Wales to East Anglia. Some say it’s good, others say it’s blinding, but most of us agree, that once you’ve been there it’s the place to be. If you haven’t been yet, then go – you don’t know what you’re missing. 
 
When The Edge kicks, it kicks. It is the home of some of the best rave/club nights ever staged in this country. Playing host to only the best DJ’s including Carl Cox, Ratty, Phantasy, Top Buzz, Slipmatt, Swan E, Pilgrim, Groove Rider, Fabio, the list is endless.

So lets take a walk round this famous old club formerly known as the Eclipse.

The Edge

Based in Lower Ford Street, Coventry. The club towers 4 stories high in the heart of Coventry. With loads of cheap parking, there’s no problem finding spaces to throw your car into a spot and run like f**k to the entrance. You reach the doors, go in and your straight away into another world.

On the ground floor you find the chill out lounge. You can’t help, but jump on to those triangular pillars. From here you can chat like hell to fellow raves or just mong and watch the giant projections cast against the walls. Anyway enough of that, lets go up the stairs to the first floor.

Here we find the Juice Bar. Basically it’s a room where you can hear the best tracks from yesteryear to help you relax and perhaps full asleep or whatever. That’s enough old music for one night, lets climb the stairs to the second floor.

Now it’s starting to get going, at last we find out what the clubs is all about. Hardcore, or as Mix Mag say Aadcore. Perhaps one day they will learn how to spell Hardcore and find out the true meaning of the word. As we walk into the hardcore room you’re suddenly hit by steam, sound and light. The sound is pucka and totally built into the dance platforms and stage to create an excellent dancing arena. As ears start to explode with the sounds of bass, breakbeats and frequencies you can’t help but dance to create your own steam. Oh yeah by the way, if the floor starts moving don’t worry. It is built to move to give you the ultimate in frills. Now we are talking losing these pounds as you move your waist to the bassline. To blow your mind away and out, now you have no choice but to be zombied and dance the way through the night.

There is one more floor, for yet we must explore. Tear yourself out of your transfix, head towards the door and go up the stairs again towards heavens gates. Enter the one and only balcony. The perfect place to watch the nutters in the crowd stomping or whatever it’s called, whilst you relax or dance to the thumping tunes.

Who say’s hardcore rave is dying. That’s bollocks. There are too many narrow minded people trying to convince you that rave is dead. These people are either old or Mix Magged to realise that hardcore is the young peoples choice. Don’t let these people fool you. The Edge is not a monument for hardcore raver, but a place of worship and so will it continue to be over the coming years. Hardcore may change, but it will always be there for the foreseeable future. Anyway, enough of that, back to the club.

Entry cost to The Edge can vary from week to week as sometimes there are promoters in doing special nights such as Fibreoptic and Quest, ESP, Amnesia House plus many more. So entry varies from between £10 to £20 – value for money.

Finally, The Edge is a club well worth visiting, with safe security who don’t bother you all night, friendly ravers with a good atmosphere and everything you need to make the night a blinder.