TUESDAY 9 FEB, 2010

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 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. Well bully for you.

Be thankful there’s not that much to tempt you from your righteous midweek path. Not in London. 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.

We’d never be so crass as to declare Wednesday the new Friday, nor even Tuesday the new Thursday. Instead, we’re just letting you know – out of respect – that Open Season has officially been declared on all days of the week. Yep. Monday through to Sunday, school night to weekend: all your hides are officially for the taking.

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

PLAYLIST 9th February

This week's playlist is all about love, passion and everything else that ol' St.
Valentine got up to after dark. Opening with a slither of The XX sexy enough to loosen anyone's pre-V-day's corset, it's downhill faster than you can order another bottle of bubbly… From A-Ha electroclashified to Captain Beefheart, Owl City to Big Boi, and careening from dancehall through to dreampop, the whole sweeter-than-chocolate package gets wrapped-up in a tight disco/soul Roots Manuva x Bar-Kays mash-up to which we defy
you not to bounce your head and shake your loving derriere.

Click here to listen the playlist…

MUSIC – Peruvian Post-Punk on a Tuesday? Gawd bless the Red Bull Music Academy 8pm. Old Blue Last, 38 Gt Eastern St, EC2A 3ES. Free.

SHOP – Satisfy your A Bathing Ape cravings from home/work with the brand new EU online store.

DANCE – Tonight's Resolution triple-bill of dance has it all from hats to air punches… 8pm. The Place, 17 Duke's Rd, WC1H 9PY. £5-£15.

LOVE – Nighties & naughties at the ready for the boozey pre-valentine bedtime stories at 40 Winks. 7-10:30pm. 109 Mile End Rd, E1 4UJ. £25 adv.