Halloween Events, The Round Up
There are A LOT of Halloween parties going on this year. It seems everyone is well and truely on and strapped in to the scary bang wagon. We thought it only right to get the best of the goulish bunch together for you so that you can make an educated decision on how to spend your Hallows Eve, you don’t want to spend it with these guys above now do you?
Gilgamesh : Terrifying Halloween Party : Saturday (30th)
Gilgamesh hosts a party that is promising to be an evening of unforgetable music and visual displays. They have the obligatory Halloween cocktails on offer with touches such as lychee eyeballs, fleshy watermellon and dry ice along with misty rooms full of ‘hidden dangers lurking ‘ in every corner so get ready for some jumps.
Camden View, Camden Stables Market, Calk Farm Road, London, NW1 8AH
E.T.A : Halloween Party with Grave Expectations : Tonight (Friday 29th)
E.T.A (Estimated Time of Arrival) hosts an unforgettable (we are told)Halloween party at one of the highest, most spine tingling points in London. Again here you will find your music and visual displays (its all about the visual displays this October). The party starts at 9pm on the 29th Floor of the Millbank Tower offering 360 degree panoramic views over london. There will be mazes of cobwebs, pumpkins and of coruse top UK remixers in the form of Leo Zero and Hugo Heathcote.
9pm-4am, 29th Floor, Milbank Tower, London, SW14 4QP
The Committee Halloween Party
This takes place at the Valmont Club and is an annual affair that starts at 10pm and the venue comes in the form of a haunted house filled with ghost and other creepy creatures. They expect decent fancy dress and the music is of the Ibizan ilk AKA electro house. Please note those without costumes will be painted with blood by door girl Jen on arrival.
Valmont Club, 266a Fulham Road, SW10 9EL
Held at The Last Days of Decadence this is another Saturday affiar (30th). The venue are celebrating Halloween with with the villains, monsters and general oddballs of the early years of cinema. From Nosferatu to Klaatu, Buster Keaton to things half eaten, they want to see your Karloffs, Orlocks, Chaplins and Lloyds, Lugosis, Costellos, Abbots, Bows, Garbos and all the rest! There is also live music, caberet and queen of pain Missy Macadre.
144-145 Shoreditch High St, E1 6JE
Sunday 31st and it’s time to get on the boat. This is as you may have guesses a Halloween Party on a steam boat. You can pay £35 for a normal ticket or £65 to include fine dining. There are burlesque dancers, escapologists, bands, complimentary campagne on arrival.
The team behind Winterwell bring you a truely terrifying Victorian Halloween on saturaday the 30th. Set in Village Underground (Shoreditch) there is caberet, music, DJs and a time machine in the shape of resotred Victorian Warehouse complete with London Dungeon and heroes and villains of the past. The party has been built around an interactive Victorian stage complete with actors playing a w hole host of Victorian characters such as Jack the Ripper, Jekyll and Hyde, Sweeney Todd, Sherlock Holmes and even Miss Haversham. Be shaved by Sweeney Todd or eat a pie from Mrs Miggings pie shop. Tickets are £20
The Village Underground, 54 Hollywell Lane, Shoreditch, EC2A 3PQ
Opal Nera Halloween Ball
We save the best till last. This Sunday (31st October) its the Opal Nera Halloween Ball. A firm favourite with the Jack crew for about 5 years now the Opal Nera party always has a bit of an edge, even if it has moved from the Tea Building to Punk this year. Fancy dress is mandatory and you won’t be allowed in without it however it is worth going purely to see the extent to which others make an effort. It no doubt wins the most creative dress up catagory. Entertainment will be laid on by Russell Brands favourites, the Satanic Sluts and there will be copious amounts of free black sambucca flying about. But dear readers, you have been warned, Opal Nera needs to be drunk responsibly, it is also very sticky and will leave you most likey having to call in sick on Monday.
Punk, 14 Soho Street, Soho, W1D 3DN
