The guys behind Birmingham super club, Miss Moneypennys are, Jim, Dermot, Michael Ryan and Lee Garrick.
The Miss Moneypenny’s story reads like a fairytale: beginning with a clothes stall funded by a government scheme, the brothers Ryan and their trainee Garrick gradually built an empire which now comprises the Birmingham club, a clothes shop, a clothing label, a record label, a DJ agency, the three-monthly Chuff Chuff parties, tour events all over the UK, and Christ knows what else. Their events attract the cream of the industry, together with numerous VIPs and the boldest and most beautiful that club land has to offer, their name is synonymous with glamour and style, hug corporations are queuing up to sponsor them (last year XS, this year Marlboro), they’ve just moved into a new venue, the Church in Birmingham, where they’re enjoying capacity crowds every week, as well as at BCM and El Divino, Dermot’s become something of a celeb after his feature in FHM and Villa are still in the Premiership. It seems only logical that the next step will be the acquisition of their own venue and, indeed, rumors are currently rife that the guys are working on achieving just that.

“When we started off back in 1985”, volunteered a suddenly, mysteriously, extremely talkative Dermot, “the clothes stall was in a wicked location, right in the city centre. We
pretended to be designers to get into this great development with 40 or so young, talented types, which was the perfect starting point for organizing parties. The goings-on in
Birmingham at the time were, to be perfectly honest, pure, unadulterated shite, so having such a good opportunity to get together 150 or so likeminded people enabled us to really
c reate something. We began a great vibe, then started the boat parties, which were just awesome, 12 hours of lunacy. We would sail away with a boatload of people, and there
were no outside influences, as we handled everything from security to music to the bar. This is actually the first year that we haven’t managed to put on our annual boat bash,
and I’m a bit gutted because they were always the most enjoyable thing for me. It was a handpicked crowd, half guys, half girls, and the idea back in the glory days was to
attempt to get off with as many of that 50% of girls as humanly possible within the twelve hours!

“Then”, he continued, “we hooked up with Venus and began doing some joint parties, which was great for both of us because they’d been struggling and we needed something
regular. Without sounding big-headed, we gave the place a new lease of life, and the joint party we did on New Year’s Eve was just incredible. When Venus closed shortly
afterwards, it seemed like launching our own club was the natural thing to do, as we’d basically held it together for the last year or so of its existence. So, Miss Moneypenny’s
kicked in, and we were doing the big stately home Chuff Chuffs at the same time. From there, things just kept growing, the club doing better all the time and all sorts of spin-offs
coming up, like the tours and so on. All along, though we’ve never compromised on anything, from the door policy to the music, everything is kept tight to maintain top quality
throughout the club, and this will be the defining factor in our grandiose future plan”.

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