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Fitzherbert Discotheques was founded by two teenage brothers, Nick and Ivan Fitzherbert, in 1975 on the eve of the ‘golden age’ of disco music.  Having just left Charterhouse school, their clear intention was to create the mobile disco to outdo all others.  And so they took to the road with the biggest mobile disco anyone had ever seen, complete with one of the first ever portable dry ice machines.

For five years the Fitzherberts became a regular fixture in London and across the South of England at country house parties, society weddings, hunt balls and birthday, Christmas and New Year celebrations.  The disco took Nick and Ivan to venues as varied as embassy ballrooms, a Lord Mayor’s private apartment and Oliver Reed’s empty swimming pool.  (Click on the portrait of Ollie to find out what they were doing in his swimming pool)

Eventually, careers in public relations and the law beckoned for Nick and Ivan respectively, but in the 30 years that followed they were frequently nagged with  ‘when are going to bring back the disco?’ questions.  With the exception of a few special guest spots at 40th birthday parties, Fitzherbert Discotheques lay dormant until the next generation of Fitzherberts - also teenagers at Charterhouse - started taking an interest in the vintage vinyl and original Technics decks that lay stashed in the attic.

With the music of disco’s golden era as popular as ever, the 70s generation refusing to grow old and the 21st century producing a whole new breed of DJs, the Fitzherberts saw the potential for a father/uncle/son/nephew combo that provides the best of all disco worlds.  So Nick and Ivan are back doing what they did to great acclaim in the 70s and passing on their experience to Freddie and Archie, who keep the culture right up to date, often with fresh new mixes of the music that continues to survive and thrive.