Fiction and Salvation

Our regular favourite nightclub is Fiction, a Friday night party at The Cross nightclub. It's located just north of Kings Cross station, under the arches, near the goods yard. The location and decor is best described as casbah-meets-bomb-shelter. Check out my Fiction photo set for more photos.

My favourite London night out is at Salvation, a once-a-month party held at the Café de Paris on Coventry Street between Leicester Square and Piccadilly. Unfortunately I only have some grainy photos at the moment, in my Salvation photo set.

This is the party that I described as like walking on to a Falcon film set. The venue is something out-of-this-world. Built eighty years ago, it was the London nightspot for a very long time, favoured at variuos times by Princess Margaret, the Duchess of Kent, Jerry Hall, Mick Jagger, Boy George etc etc. Now it's used for functions and regular special events. Located two stories below ground level, it was the only London nightspot allowed to remain open during World War II. The owner claimed that the five stories of masonry above the club would protect the partygoers from a direct hit. That proved false when the building suffered a direct hit, with the bomb landing on the Cafe de Paris dance floor!