Electric Dreams was started on 13th January 1997, by a group of enthusiasts for eighties synth and new wave music. They had got to know each other through having met at some of the various eighties clubs that sprang up in London in the mid nineties. By 1997, however, most of these had either become defunct, or were playing very tourist-orientated, commercial eighties music that held no appeal for the promoters who were to start their own night. One of them, (Stix), had had the idea of doing his own club, but had been unable to find a suitable venue.