School's Out

Across town, school nights are thoroughly off the wagon again

Ah, school nights. I couldn’t possibly have another. No really, I must head home: I’ve got a meeting at tomorrow morning and blah-blah-blah.

Then you knock back a cheeky one for the road (because there’s nothing more dangerous than a sober road) and call it a night. The party was just getting started, the whiff of mischief ripe. But your responsibilities won out in the end and home you trotted for an early night. Well bully for you.

Be thankful there’s not that much to tempt you from your righteous midweek path. Not in London. Oh no. Never.

Oops.

So Sketch is kicking off a new slice of midweek, lace-donned, disco-to-krautrock distraction this Wednesday with Ceremony. Which is great because, aside from the décor, the afternoon tea and the charming, tall Irish manager who remembers everyone, we’d really a love a reason to revisit The Parlour again.

Out East, meanwhile, a certain well-known, flame-haired popstress is the latest in a short-but-impressive line-up of names to get the midweek mayhem rolling at Pizza East’s subterranean Concrete.

But if you’d still like to at least pretend that it’s a school night, then Future Human should be right up your alley. After all, where else can you mix “Advertising at the Frontiers of Consciousness” with a decent margarita? It’s like the School of Life Sermons, but mid-week, without the lecturer and with a cold, well-earned drink in your hand instead.

Which in turn is a little like doing your degree all over again. Only with a touch more class.

INFO
TeenagersInTokyo / Back Yard Recordings present Ceremony. Wed Feb 10, 10pm-2am, Free. The

Parlour @ Sketch, 9 Conduit St, W1S 2XG. (Dress code: Black, White & Lace)

Secret guest DJ set. Thurs Feb 11, 6pm-1am, Free. Concrete, 56 Shoreditch High St, E1 6JJ

Future Human: Advertising at the Frontiers of Consciousness. Wed Feb 10, 7:30pm, £8 The Book Club, 100 Leonard St, EC2A 4RH

by AC

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