Police (dressed as goths) undertook surveillance of the venue and saw no club managers or owners at the place: just the 20-year-old DJ.
Simon then moved into Drum and Bass, opening two underground DnB nights, Fusion and Vivid.
"If Popstarz had failed," he told Alternative London Magazine, "I wouldn’t have embarrassed myself, because I didn’t know anyone in the gay community."
“So many people said to me it was like coming out of the closet for the second time.” In more recent years, his passion was the Ghetto (previously the Tube Nightclub), a small basement club behind the London Astoria, where he had the opportunity to nurture a number of criss-crossing alternative gay scenes.
[1] Simon Hobart died in the early hours of Sunday 23 October 2005 outside his home in Borough, London.