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June 08, 2010
Well this is a good idea
1940 London Blitz ww2, originally uploaded by brizzle born and bred.
Take one of the darkest periods in your nation's history. Then party about it. That's what some party people in London are doing: every five to six weeks, they're hosting "Blitz Parties."
Blitz Party is billed as a 1940s evening with community spirit, where people have the chance to escape the drab safety of the modern world for a time when Londoners defied Hitler's Luftwaffe bombers from behind the blackout curtains.
"This seems to have hit the ticket," said Blitz Party founder and organiser Mark Holdstock, who launched the club night last year. "We get people that know how to have a party and have probably been going to parties and clubs for quite a while -- older than your new, younger clubbers.
"They are looking for something a little bit more interesting and inclusive."
Blitz Party's venues are specifically picked to give an authentic wartime bunker feel, and then kitted out with old fashioned memorabilia and artefacts - such as sand bags, oil lamps, ration books and military bunk beds.
Swing bands, performers and DJs then bring the night alive with sounds from a bygone era.
I think very few modern people have gone through something like The Blitz. Everything I've read about it says Londoners took the Blitz with grim determination, refusing to break under the constant threat of death. I just don't see how this lends itself to partying.
I suppose that something like a nuclear bomb party might be analogous, except for the fact nuclear bombs weren't dropped on the same city, every day for a year. Maybe I'm an old fogey, but it seems sort of in poor taste to me. I wouldn't have a 9/11 party, for example.
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Posted at June 8, 2010 10:30 PM