The marvellous splendour of Musical Bingo

I admit I was somewhat sceptical when I was invited to Musical Bingo, mainly because it's bingo if I'm honest. Oh! How sorry I am for ever doubting you Musical Bingo, for you are a truly stupendous entity. How can anything involving Bingo lead to so much mischief and debautury?! The concept is pretty obvious so I wont go into detail, they play songs you cross them off your sheet. You also have to race to the  DJ booth to claim your line or full house so there is more of a challenge than usual.   

Believe me it can get quite heated, elbows are involved and pride is at steak. My friend has twice now thrown her toys out of the pram and given the death stare to the poor DJ who failed to check her line first, essentially meaning she missed out on a prize. Poor little Crae Crae. 

But hold on, the fun endeth not there. Once your line has been checked by one of the DJ's you forget all about remaining nonchalant and composed and hurry excitedly to the stage whereby you are showered with confetti (If only this happened every time I entered a room) as you choose to keep your prize (think novelty lollies and shots) or gamble. You might get gherkins, you might get champers (The gherkin was a booby prize btw, although not to some-weirdos). 

The compares are most entertaining, the tunes are banging and there's always dancing on the table, a must for all my nights out.  My experiences of Musical Bingo have thus far involved lots of wine, shots, dancing, shouting, much over gesticulation, glitter, non Scottish shortbread, glow sticks, bad chat up lines, meeting amazing new people and almost not being able to make it into work the next day. Perfect night then really. It really is the best organised fun Ive had all year, hurry up 19th December. Plan your visit, you must. 

Blaze-ing up the place

On Saturday I took F to see Blaze, a street dance performance at Saddlers Wells Theatre. I knew if I told him that was the plan that he would never agree to it but once there, we would love it. I was correct, this is not unusual ; ) It was AMAZING! If you’ve been sitting in awe at ‘So you think you can dance’ and then deciding you really should be a world class dancer and that Online Marketing is really not the way forward, then you need to go see this show. The dancing was mind blowing, the choreography truly inspiring, the tunes absolutely banging and best of all it was full of kids (posh one’s mind you as a ticket was £38.50) so you could see straight over their heads to the stage. We then went on to cocktails at Chancery Court Hotel, unfortunately it was too early for the Pearl so we made do with The Bar, not the best atmos but the best Lychee martini I’ve ever had. I say that as if I’ve had a lot of them but that might actually be my first, hmmm, but I could tell it was good and will be hard to beat, I think, oh well I enjoyed it at the time is what I’m saying. Then we went to One Aldwych Lobby Bar, managed to get a seat yipee and proceeded to drink cocktails until we could drink no more. I even met the guy who invented my blushing Martini, lovely fellow. So basically thoroughly enjoyed F’s Birthday night of fun, maybe a little too much as it reads like my perfect night out and not his. Oh….