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| Right at the end of the night, outside Oxford Rd's Spar, one girl noticed- with some prompting- that the pocket square was actually a piece of kitchen roll. |
On
the corner of the Palace Hotel on Oxford Road, inside the
111-year-old Victorian building, lies Refuge, a new bar inside what was the lobby
of the building. The 70s-inspired décor includes vibrant patterned
art ontop of the original exposed brickwork, complimented by funk
music at talking level. It's a good starting place if you're heading
to the Witworth St area (which we were).
It's
early days for the new bar- a lot of the ingredients for the
non-alcoholic cocktails they didn't have, which slimmed the options
for drivers like me. But it's nice to have something not-so-studenty on Oxford Road.
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| Good job. I didn't fancy going back to Oldham and getting changed again |
We
then moved on to VIVA, a smart club I'd
been in only once before for Miss Swimsuit UK. Blume, the Saturday weekly night, was quite different to the Thursday night event, with a much
younger clientele. Unfortunately they were much ruder too, and kept
bumping into me and my group without apologising, when there was
plenty of space. I felt that people were quite cold and not willing
to chat. There was phone reception in the first half of the bar, but
once you got to the club at the back O2 coverage dropped out. (But
then, O2 is shit.) My friend paid £2 to leave her coat in the
cloakroom, but then at the end of the night let her pick out her coat
from the rail. So anyone else could have picked it up if they wanted.
I
definitely posed for an official picture but I'm not in the album.
Plenty
of other places to try. As the club started to empty out I took a
walk around the city to see what was happening. I found a load of
police vehicles on Peter St at the crossroads of Deansgate, where one
woman was already in handcuffs.
So
although my Halloween wasn't as good as some others I'd had, in 2016
it certainly wasn't as bad as it was for some other people.
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| Utter gridlock trying to get out of the city at 3am |
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