He looked at it and said if he likes it he will wear it, he said it is a cool t-shirt and said can he keep it and wore it.” “It was worn by Fatboy Slim when he was in Beats International, it was worn by Horace Panter who was an artist in The Specials and it was worn by Paul Weller, he did a concert in Coventry at the Lanch. On the first night of The Eclipse opening, it was sold in a very popular shop in Coventry at the time called Revive on the Burges where you bought tickets for the raves. It was even worn by members of Coventry band The Specials and punk rocker Paul Weller. Joe said that the tee flew off the shelves when first printed in the '90s.
Speaking about how he came up with the design, Joe said: “So, there was a famous, well-known t-shirt in Manchester which was created by Central Station who did the artwork for Happy Mondays, and it said 'On The 8th Day God Created Manchester' so a friend of mine called Adrian Rafferty came up with the tagline, basically I liked it so I designed it.” READ MORE: A trip down memory lane to the night Coventry Skydome opened in 1999 But we had this nightclub called The Eclipse and a lot of people came down from Manchester and from around different parts of the country to actually go clubbing all night in Coventry.” Coventry in around '89 and '90, they did win the FA Cup in the late '80s and the Two-Tone thing was old at the time, so there was not much going on in Coventry. “Back in the day, people really were not proud of Coventry as much as they are now, they talk about the City of Culture and Coventry City Football Club. Coventry had the first all-night club so a lot of people were starting to come to the city.” Heart of England.'Įxplaining the backstory of the tee, Joe told CoventryLive: “In the 1990s the music scene was very orientated around Manchester, the Happy Mondays and Inspiral Carpets and there were a lot of raves going on at the time. Emblazoned on the front of the tee are the words: 'Coventry. Created by Joe Kerrigan, the tee was inspired by the ‘90s rave scene which saw thousands travel to the city to party all night long. An iconic Coventry t-shirt, worn by Paul Weller and DJ Fatboy Slim, will be on show at an exhibition in the heart of the city.