Initially, the club room beneath Turnmills pub was sparse with little or no décor. The space was dark, and a little unsavoury. Pushed into one corner was a beat up old grand piano. In later interviews, Laurence recalled, ‘"Trade" had been running on an underground tip for the first few months’ Three or four months into the residency, and still finding it difficult to pull in customers, Laurence took decisive action. ‘I invited Tim Stabler to co-promote it with me and oversee the décor in the club.’ At the time, other clubs such as Heaven, G-A-Y and The Fridge closed at around 2am to 3am on Sunday mornings, an hour or so before "Trade" opened at 3am. It took a while for clubbers to cotton on to the fact that they were able to go straight on to "Trade" to continue clubbing all night after the other clubs had closed. Once they did, "Trade" exploded into the phenomena it became.