Forget smoky gentlemen’s rooms and throbbing sticky dancefloors; we take a look at how the city is really moving after (and way before!!) midnight.
London in particular is a city that knows how to party hard alongside working hard. Despite the fact that we don’t have the weather of Spain where staying out until 8am is less a question of endurance and more a matter of dropping from bar to bar without worrying about anything, London does make up for it in innovation and new ideas.
One club I am very excited about this summer is not a nightclub at all, but a performance-ish event that brings together some of the biggest names in the city’s cabaret and live art scene.
The Boom Boom Club, a collective of the city’s burlesque and circus-inspired club performers, is presenting Prospero’s Tavern. On at London Wonderground, the show includes Jonny Woo as Prospero, overseeing a ramshackle and glamorously twisted crew of cabaret maestros.
If you’re up for a weekend of alternative, underground clubbing, forget Piccadilly Circus and those spots. Basing yourself centrally, within good reach of the west, north and east, as well as Elephant and Castle, is most important. Somewhere like London Regent’s Park could be a nice respite to the pints and painful feet.
Head out west to Notting Hill Arts Club for reggae and hip hop nights, and great events during the day too; if you want something a bit more laid back, this is the place to be. Take a walk along the Regent’s Canal from Little Venice and then you’ll be back near your accommodation, and within a stone’s throw of Camden’s pubs and bars.
Down at 93 Feet East in Brick Lane (hectic place to go out; you have to start learning to be a bit choosy about where you go, but this spot can be a suitably scuzzy safe bet) you can dance to your heart’s content all Sunday daytime.
Clubbing during the day has already become a bit of a franchise in Sweden, where a club called Lunch Beat is serving up twenty minute bursts of clubbing mayhem for office workers looking for an alternative to a cheap sandwich and a cigarette outside the building at 1pm. And ‘micro clubbing’ is also an option if you’re about for a weekday, or want a smaller night: this is a new trend for commuters who want to go home before the last train!
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There are lots of nice and inexpensive hotels in Central London.