LIQUID SPIRIT Gozo 2026: Bobby & Steve's Club Zoo Reunion

A House Music Revival Built on Legacy and Love

London, early 1990s. The rare groove scene is mutating. Acid is everywhere, techno is beginning to spike, but in the underground club rooms of Soho and pirate FM frequencies, a movement was rising. One made of gospel, disco, soul and unfiltered love for the dancefloor.

Helmed by identical twins Bobby & Steve Laviniere, the night was the natural extension of their trailblazing Kiss FM show, which aired every Friday night from 10 to midnight. For over a decade, it wasn’t just a radio show; it was a lifeline for a generation. Their broadcast offered a direct line to the soulful undercurrents of New York’s garage scene, championing sounds that many in the UK would have never otherwise heard.

The Zoo Experience was part celebration, part resurrection. A living, breathing monument to the deep, affirming soulful roots of house music. Inside the pitch-dark venue, the crowd moved as one. You didn't need to know what’s coming next. You just trusted the ones behind the decks. And when Bobby & Steve are in the booth, trust is easy. The likes of Lisa Lisa’s “Let The Beat Hit ’Em,” and The Sounds of Blackness “Optimistic,” emerged as huge hits from this night alone. 

For many, those Friday night radio sessions were more than entertainment. They were a lifeline.

One of those listeners? A 17-year-old Danny T, Co-Founder of LIQUID SPIRIT Gozo. Danny would make his way to Soho Theatre Club, a key spot for the underground scene at the time. That’s where The Zoo Experience first entered his bloodstream. Kiss FM aired the soundtrack. Bobby & Steve supplied the magic. And in those sweat-drenched, joy-fuelled rooms, the seed was planted.

“It was everything,” Danny says. “The Zoo Experience, Kiss FM, Bobby & Steve. The music, the community, the way it made you feel. That’s where it all started for me. That was my education.”

By the age of 20, Danny T was promoting his own events in Essex, bringing Bobby, Steve, and Chrissie T out to crowds hungry for something with heart. Fast-forward 30 years, and he’s flying them out to Gozo, an island dancefloor steeped in sunshine, sea air, and soul.

Danny's first ever promoter gigs with the legendary Bobby & Steve.

By the age of 20, Danny T was promoting his own events in Essex, bringing Bobby, Steve, and Chrissie T out to crowds hungry for something with heart. Fast-forward 30 years, and he’s flying them out to Gozo, an island dancefloor steeped in sunshine, sea air, and soul.

Pioneers since 1987, Bobby & Steve cut their teeth in London’s East End, spun in warehouses alongside Norman Jay and Jazzy B, and took their first inspiration from Larry Levan at Paradise Garage. They launched Garage City, a night that defined a generation and introduced US house royalty, Louie Vega, Kerri Chandler and Tony Humphries to UK dancefloors.

They hosted the main stage at the 51st State Festival, held a residency at Ministry of Sound, and launched the powerhouse label and brand Groove Odyssey with Michael Hughes, now celebrating its 15th year.

They’ve remixed for Faith Evans under Diddy’s Bad Boy Records, released compilations with Defected, and toured the world relentlessly. In 2016, they were honoured at the iconic Chosen Few Festival in Chicago, the birthplace of house, with a lifetime achievement award in front of 40,000 people.

It's widely known that in 2020, both brothers contracted Covid-19 at the start of their debut album tour, “Let’s Stand Together.” Bobby recovered. Steve, tragically, sustained a rare neurological injury and remains in specialist care. Still, Bobby continues to fly the flag, launching the Dance For Stevie fundraiser and a new charity, the Bobby & Steve Foundation, supporting others living with neurological trauma.

“Carrying the legacy forward without Steve beside me is the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” Bobby has said. “But this music is part of us. It always will be.”

In July 2025, they brought their Club Zoo Reunion back to London at BBE. And in September 2026, it travels to Gozo, where the island’s limestone walls will echo with the sound of decades past.

“It’s about soul,” says Steve. “That’s what’s missing in a lot of nights now. Soul in the music, and soul in the people.”

LIQUID SPIRIT Gozo got plenty of that!

Danny wasn’t the only one shaped by that room. That same Soho Theatre Club would also play host to Sunday Happy Day, the long-running underground party built by Yvonne Taylor, years later. Andrea (LIQUID SPIRIT Gozo's other Co-founder) champions and celebrates them as part of her own clubbing lineage. They weren’t just parties. They were sanctuaries and they will both be united in Gozo this year. 

And Zoo was one of the originals.

Club Zoo Reunion. From Soho to Gozo

This interwoven history spins the first tastes of club culture and the roots of soulful house into the heart of LIQUID SPIRIT Gozo 2026 alongside newness and passion for music.

That's aligned magic right there.

“This is about honouring the people and places that shaped our culture".

More than 30 years later, the story comes full circle and spirits are kept alive as Bobby & Steve and their Club Zoo Reunion join the Liquid Spirit Gozo 2026 - Legacy And Love.

And we can't wait.