Godskitchen

After a lot of travelling around the world in search of the ultimate dance event experience, it’s about time to share with you the history of Godskitchen. Godskitchen is an international superclub brand associated with dance music and organizes events, particularly in the UK and US. The company runs a club night of the same name at their own nightclub AIR, in Birmingham and has an in-house music label. This label annually releases compilation albums, in addition to supporting new artists whom they believe bring something new to the genre.

While trying to come up with a name for their new house night, promoters observed that the best house parties always seem to gravitate around the kitchen. They soon concluded that the very best parties would be held in God's kitchen, hence the name. This name was also used by the 1980s synthpop group Blancmange who produced a song called "God's Kitchen", although the two may not have been connected.

Godskitchen's roots begin back in the golden era of the UK rave scene back in the early 1990s.They held their first event back in the UK at the Junction Nightclub in Cambridge, launching a series of sell out nights across the UK.

In 1997 Chris and Tyrone staged an event for 4.000 people at the Sanctuary Music Arena in Milton Keynes. The party sold out in advance at a venue that fellow superclubbers Cream had failed to fill only 12 months previously.

Looking for a "somewhere to call home", Godskitchen moved to the 2000 capacity Sanctuary Nightclub (formerly the Digbeth Institute) in Digbeth, Birmingham. Godskitchen filled the Sanctuary week after week and 1999 saw Godskitchen take their clubbing to the Amnesia Nightclub in Ibiza, pulling in 5.500 revelers every Tuesday night. Godskitchen continued to flourish on Ibiza for another three seasons, moving to Eden in San Antonio for one summer in 2002.

In Birmingham, Godskitchen continued to go from strength to strength and began work on a nightclub of their own, the superclub "CODE", which opened its doors in the autumn of 2000. With Friday's Godskitchen fast becoming synonymous with the Trance sound, Godskitchen launched two further clubbing nights at CODE. Expanding into the north of England, the first Godskitchen night was launched at Club Mission in Leeds in 2008.

In 2003 Godskitchen completely transformed their home venue CODE, renaming it to AIR. After another successful year and Global Gathering in 2004, Godskitchen took the party overseas to the Ireland and the US. The final jewel in the Godskitchen crown was to take place in July 2005 when Global Gathering was expanded to cover an entire weekend and the Friday night saw a fresh music policy with more emphasis placed on live acts. The capacity was again increased to 45.000 and the following day saw Godskitchen take Global Gathering to the Republic of Ireland for a 15.000 capacity event in Cork.

Godskitchen released their first compilation in 1999, "Divine" and has since released a further 11 compilations, the most recent being "Godskitchen Underground".