If you think the imposing 88,000 square foot Victoriana Cable Street Studios is a mere stone's throw from Shoreditch think again! This cavernous lair is layered with annexes, narrow corridors and time honoured facilities that resonate life on the city's urban Thamas flow, a hop, skip and jump away from Bangla City.
House of Wheat teamed up with Seductive Alchemy on New Year's Eve to bring a masquerade ball teaming with men, women and those in between of all sexual persuasions to bandy their swords, machetes and inflatable penguins in the hottest, most alternate alternative to Hoxton electrolytes and Leicester Square lotharios. The 1890s masquerade ball belched out deep house which got progressively harder which was fittingly interspersed at midnight by a band backed by two Peaches robotic dancers (not Mademoiselle Geldof!) with the singer blaring Happy New Year in a professorial demise, whilst city slickers threw off their Thomas Pink to truly think outside the Square. Factor in live porn, screaming PVC, mad hatters' tea parties, tarot readings, fire eaters and stilt walkers, subversive scavengers made this venue a night to remember in that distant Victorian epoch. Spectacularly freaky. read more