The clubbing connoisseurs have lots planned for the May bank holiday!
Hold onto your harnesses boys, there’s another Bank Holiday peeking round the corner, just like that Kim Kardashian in the foliage gif. You know the one. Obviously we can’t put it here. We’re a magazine. This is why print media is dying.
Anyway, let’s not get too thinkpiecey. Let’s talk about the latest in a fluster of Spring Bank Holidays. By all means, you could use it sensibly. Don’t let us stop you going home to visit your Mum. She’s dying to see you again. “Bring some washing home,” she keeps saying. Or you could take the train out of London to one of those made-up counties in the middle of England, like Rutland or Shropshire, stay in a cottage with a thatched roof, take bracing walks in unpolluted country air and sit out in the garden to look up at some actual stars. That sounds idyllic.
But you’re not going to do that though, are you? You’re going to use the extra day off to dive deep into an oscillating dance floor stuffed with hundreds of topless hedonists. And you know what? We don’t really blame you. No amount of North Pennines Trail strolls or pub lunches will come close to that feeling. As per usual, Orange Nation have got you covered from Friday evening to the middle of Monday with a series of balls-to-the-wall parties!
A:M
Things kick off on Friday night, or Saturday morning to be precise, with A:M. A bit of an institution around these parts, you’ve got three packed rooms playing a bouncing mix of tech, house and Latin. Please don’t ask the DJ to play that Kylie Stop Me from Falling reggaeton remix though. You will probably be escorted outside and placed on a list. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Saturday 5th April, 3am-10pm, £8 before 6am with conc/flyer/NUS, £15 OTD
Beyond v Daddi
Here’s a biggy. On Saturday night, one of Ireland’s hottest gay nights, Daddi, will be jumping on the Holyhead ferry and heading to Vauxhall to collaborate with the ever-relentless Beyond! You’ll be getting non-stop house and techno from the likes of William Sizen Bell, Nik Sg, Tom Stephan, and Sam Londt, as well as beefy gogo action from Marshall Arkley, Zack Riley and Ricky Boon. All until the gloriously decadent time of 4pm! Book a babysitter.
Sunday 6th April, 4am-4pm, £11 early bird from seetickets.com
Orange is the New Black
And if you’ve still got the energy (we’re sure you’ll find a way somehow), Sunday superstars Orange are paying homage to everyone’s favourite lesbian prison drama since Bad Girls with another marathon 12-hour party. More DJs than an EasyJet flight to Ibiza and none of the creeping sense of doom normally haunting a Sunday evening, because guess what? NO WORK THE NEXT DAY.
Sunday 6th April, 11pm-11am, £12 with flyer/conc, £15 OTD
