Name: Ministry of Sound Houses of Parliament Projection Negatives
Brand: Ministry of Sound
SKU: LDN_MOS_012
Price: 250.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Ministry of Sound Houses of Parliament Projection Negatives

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Of all the images in the Ministry of Sound story, this is the one that keeps coming back: the club’s crest, lit up across the front of the Houses of Parliament. Beamed over the Thames onto the Palace of Westminster, it was one of the boldest stunts any British club has pulled off, a nightclub from a former bus garage in Elephant & Castle putting its name on the seat of government. The photograph has traveled with the brand ever since.

Club director Matt Long singles it out as a highlight of the whole archive, calling it “one of the most iconic and infamous” images the club has, the photo “you see with the brand and the logo.”

These are the original negatives from that night, the source of the image rather than a later print. The strips, shot on Agfa 200 film, show the crest glowing on the front of Parliament, seen across the river with the lights reflected in the water, and from Westminster Bridge with traffic trails streaking past. Anyone who has seen the picture on a poster, a T-shirt, or in the club’s books is looking at something that started here.

Key details & collectability

Original negative strips of the Ministry of Sound crest projected onto the Houses of Parliament
The source of one of the most widely reproduced images in the club’s history
Views across the Thames and from Westminster Bridge
Shot on Agfa 200 film; first-generation material, not prints or copies
Offered together as one lot

Provenance

Consigned directly by Ministry of Sound, 103 Gaunt Street, London SE1
From the club’s own archive

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Provenance

Consigned by Ministry of Sound, 103 Gaunt Street, London. From the club’s own archive.

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Ministry of Sound soundsystem

When Ministry of Sound opened in a former bus garage at 103 Gaunt Street on 21 September 1991, co-founder Justin Berkmann had one rule: “soundsystem first, lights second, design third.” He wanted to bring the sound of New York’s Paradise Garage to London, and around £500,000 of a roughly £750,000 build went on the system. The Box, the club’s main room, was built as “a box within a box,” as club director Matt Long puts it, with the whole emphasis on the sound and the experience in that room. The club even opened without a drinks license; the night was about the dance floor, the speakers, and the DJ. The Box was built around six speaker stacks, a layout it kept for thirty-five years.

These six Martin Audio stacks are the system that ran the Box from 2010 to 2025, fifteen years of Ministry of Sound’s most famous room. Each stack pairs two Martin Audio W8C Wavefront tops with two 18-inch bass bins and two passive 21-inch subwoofers, and is capable of around 25kW.

The rig won Best Club Sound System at the International Dance Music Awards four years running, from 2010 to 2013. Louie Vega, David Morales, Kerri Chandler, and DJ Harvey all played through it. “These speaker stacks are one of the most iconic sound systems in dance,” says Matt Long.

In the club’s thirty-fifth-anniversary refurbishment in January 2026, the Box got a new six-point KV2 system, a DJ booth brought closer to the dance floor, and new lighting and video, and these stacks were retired, the first change to the Box system in fifteen years. The club wants them to go somewhere that carries the legacy on. Long says it would “be amazing to see it go into another nightclub,” though a collector or a private home is just as welcome. All six stacks come with XTA amplifiers, direct from the club.

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Configuration: 6 complete Martin Audio stacks
Each stack: 2 × W8C Wavefront Series 3 · 2 × 18" bass bins · 2 × passive 21" subs
Output: Approx. 25kW per stack
In the Box: 2010–2025, 103 Gaunt Street
Included: 6 × XTA amplifiers

Not part of the auction. Offered by private sale, price on request. We welcome enquiries for some or all of the stacks.