Glam house superclub event from the mid-Nineties, resident at
Sheffield, UK's
Leadmill nightclub on Friday nights.
Rise was second only to
Cream as *the*
northern house night of the mid-Nineties. Featuring residents the
Luvdup twins, with regular appearances from the likes of
Sasha,
John Digweed and
Pete Tong, Rise was the epitome of
designer label house
chic.
One of the most memorable things about Rise was the
flyers. Every month, the club would release the newest flyer, with the details of the upcoming events on one side, and simply beautiful
cartoon artwork on the other, featuring some
dreamy club chick or gang of Rise clientele lovingly re-drawn in an almost
manga style.
My most vivid and treasured memory of Rise was the
Christmas '95
Renaissance Tour party. As we left for the club around nine, heavy snow was starting to fall on the
Steel City. Arriving at The Leadmill, we discovered a
queue the likes of which is never seen outside
Alton Towers. We stood there for
three hours in the blistering cold, getting soaked to the skin by the
blizzard - but we were as one, huddled together in the snow - 300
loved-up club kids sharing about four
umbrellas. We finally got into the
club about midnight, by which point the
dancefloor had disappeared behind the clouds of
steam from peoples' drying clothes. The rest of the night was the happiest, most together night I've ever experienced clubbing, and when we finally left at 5am, the roads were two feet deep in snow. Merry Christmas.
Rise. You gave birth to
Gatecrasher. You did not die in vain.