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'Pams House' has put East Anglian clubbing onto the International stage, but many are unaware of its humble (and accidental) beginnings.

The unusual name for a club night originated from a top floor flat housing the two original promoters. The flat, a shrine to Baywatch and its most famous & voluptuous star was known to its regular visitors as 'Pamela's Penthouse'. It was soon shortened, aptly, to ' Pams House' – an obvious move because of their love of House Music...

'Pams House Promotions' was formed to front a clubbing coach trip to the Big Smoke for a group of close friends – a trip that went disastrously wrong !??!!

The destination, Club UK in Wandsworth, was raided and shut down by police only 30 minutes after the coach's arrival. Undeterred, the 'Pamela's Penthouse' boys conjured up 15 taxi's to move the party onto another club in Vauxhall as the coach driver had disappeared and was set to sleep for the next 6 hours.

After jumping this first hurdle and enjoying a very eventful night out the 'Pams House' coach excursion was well and truly tripped when the coach broke down in Chelmsford for 4 hours on the way home!!??!!

The calamity ridden coach trip followed an inspirational holiday in Ibiza and combined to inspire the boys to move on to create the biggest club phenomenon that East Anglia has ever seen.

A 'Boys on Tour' / 'Club 18-30' holiday to the White Isle which included an eye opening evening at the worlds biggest club night 'Manumission' was enough to prompt the young entrepreneurs to bring a bit of the Balearics to the East Coast.

'Pams House - The Party' was born but had to be disguised as two friends Birthday Parties at a private members club called the 'Attic' in January 1996. Promoters Danny Banthorpe & Keith Tilley were joined by close friend & bedroom DJ Pete Walkden to host a fun night for a small gathering of like minded friends.

A memorable night was followed by another a couple of months later, then a cult monthly event formed to create the formula of ' Pams House'.

A close knit (some say crazy) group of friends were the key to the success of the early days of Pams. Antics, Manumission inspired, such as costumed dancers, entertainers & club freaks with crowd interaction were never seen in clubs outside of London.

The party become the talk of the town and soon attracted interest from the bigger venues and promoters of the time – Within a year of existence Pams House were offered a monthly Saturday at UK Ipswich – The biggest Dance event in the East Anglia.

The bigger stage gave ideal opportunity to express imaginations and create some of the craziest theme nights courtesy of a team of entertainers that have built the foundations of Pams House as we know it today. The event was attracting the most colourful & extrovert characters to the fold while the theme nights and crowd interaction became the main reason why clubbers flocked in every month – the atmosphere was unrivalled. Pams House never relied on guest DJ's but built their reputation around the crazy entertainment. Characters such as ' Norman the Tunespotter' became as famous as the DJ's and entertainers such as Gareth Beck, still involved today, were a key part of the organisation.

The musical backdrop provided by Pete Walkden and new resident Macca D was classed at the time as 'Handbag House' – It has since been split into many sub divided genres.

Pams House has also been split into two – Moving with the times – ' Pams House' now offers uplifting Harder edged House & Trance while 'PHunky' caters for lovers of Funky Vocal House though to Electro & Tech House.

Pams House & Phunky can now be found hosting regular parties at the University of East Anglia while PHunky goes solo with monthly events at Norwich's home of House Music - PoNaNa on Bank Plain.

In between those unique beginnings & todays established Norwich residencies Pams House have had an amazing journey playing some of the biggest venues in our Region, across the UK – London, Birmingham & Brighton - and the rest of the World - hosting parties in Thailand, Northern Ireland, Greece & Ibiza, where the seeds were planted many moons ago.

The love affair with Ibiza hit an all time high in 2003 when offered a Summer residency.

The East Anglians co-hosted a weekly event with Tonic in San Antonio's super club Eden, every Thursday night and followed every Friday morning with an all day party on the terrace at Space.

Space has, on many occasions, been voted by clubbers all over the globe as the worlds favourite clubbing destination. Situated in Playa D'en Bossa next to the AquaPark. The terrace was created by a good friend of Pams House - Alex P - so it was an honour to host the weekly event with Brandon Block & Alex P as residents.

Some of the Worlds favourite DJ's graced the Pams House decks in Ibiza while Pams House have also been responsible for bringing some of the biggest names in Dance Music to Norwich City. To name but a few, Erick Morillo, Judge Jules, Boy George, Jeremy Healy, Tidy Boys, Lisa Lashes, Lisa Pin Up have all featured for Pams in Norwich.

Pams House were also heavily involved with the very ambitious 'Summerfest' dance event in September 2004 when over 7000 clubbers invaded the Norfolk Showground from all over the UK for an all night event in 4 arenas.

Danny Banthorpe has been ever present over the ten years while partners Keith Tilley and Pete Walkden have since moved onto pastures new.

New partners have got involved & many team but on a whole the ethos has remained intact – Pams House offers a playground for like minded & adventurous clubbers from all over the Region, a non pretentious, fun filled night which oozes atmosphere. The UEA venue offers a perfect platform to perform the production that clubbers have come to expect but one promise that should always stick in your mind with ' Pams House' is to 'expect the unexpected'.

Pams House is here to stay – so why not, 'Come Taste Pams '

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