10 February 2006

The Big Cheese

Guilty Pleasures Disco Nights

There’s nothing wrong with eating Nutella from the jar or wearing the same pair of pants two days in a row. But they shouldn’t be life’s only guilty pleasures.

Here’s another: dancing shamelessly to cheesy tracks of the ’70s and ’80s (David Essex, Dolly Parton, Olivia Newton-John), like those played at Guilty Pleasures.

From humble beginnings at the Hammersmith Working Men’s Club, via Cannes, Glastonbury and Kelly Osbourne’s birthday party, Guilty Pleasures moves to Koko in Camden on February 25.

It’s a party worth dressing up for (leg warmers essential), with Pete Wiggs, Terry Hall and Sean Rowley on the decks and formation dancing from The Pleasurettes.  And on February 14, The I’m Not in Love Valentine’s Day party invites you to grind freely to overlooked favourites with fellow lust-seeking cheese balls.

It’ll be hot and sweaty and unbelievably naughty.

Better pack a spare pair of pants.

Guilty Pleasures, at Koko, 1A Camden High Street, NW1; I’m Not in Love, The Lock Tavern, 33 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 (guiltypleasures.co.uk).