By Leo Owen.
My name is clearly printed on the guest list but unlike other entries mine has an additional capitalised bracketed word beside it: Leo Owen (FEMALE). Sure, this is the ‘Gold Party’ celebrating the renovation of Soho’s The Shadow Lounge – “Europe's number one gay members club” - but I am certainly not the only female. Accompanied by my little sis, we begin our night playing ‘spot the lady’ but soon realise it's really not as challenging a game as we first thought.
Reminiscent of the infamous Studio 54, The Shadow Lounge is tastefully decorated, successfully amalgamating flamboyant disco with Edwardian themed intimate chandeliered booths and a granite grotto bar. The flashing chequered dance floor is accompanied by the obligatory disco ball (it’s the law!) and rather beautifully reflected on the ceiling where faux bullet holes twinkle like stars.
Right now, the club is quiet enough to admire the array of inaccessible eye candy, all far too attractive to be in one room – guys in tweed jackets, others in boating attire, one resembling James Dean, another going for the classic Rat Pack look, some topless and others outrageously dressed. The clientele is as varied as the music and moves from Janet Jackson to Tina Turner, via Jackson 5 dance remixes, Spiller's famous dance tune “Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)” and the sudden appearance of a talented crooner belting out “Can't Take My Eyes Off You”.
Still it's not all disastrous, the quiff is popular and while chatting to some of these hospitable hotties, it's difficult not to laugh when we're mistaken for an exceedingly wrong couple! Floating around in this ocean of talent are plenty of friendly and intriguing folk – an Andy Warhol wannabe, the “Got To Dance” guy, a hypnotist and rumours of Graham Norton safely harboured somewhere in a cordoned off private booth. Chatting to a regular, I'm told it's impossible not to have a good night in The Shadow Lounge. Sure, the drinks our pricey, but hey, it's central London. Pretty packed now and we've had such a good time, we've almost missed our tube.
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