Silent

After work, we headed to Cote on St Martin's Lane for a meal with Phil and Wei before our silent disco. PY and I arrived first, so I ordered a glass of wine while we waited. We stuck with variery throughout the meal and, when reviewing the bill, realised we'd have been better ordering a bottle up front as we consumed the equivalent of two bottles between three of us but ended up paying more, and there was a bottle equivalent of single glasses.


Then, to the Crypt at St Martin-in-the-Fields, the parish church at the northeast corner of Trafalgar Square. The crypt has a cafe and is often used as a music venue. Tonight it was a silent disco. We arrived, handed over our coats, and were presented with headphones from which we could select a music track from the three options controlled by a button on the side. I hadn't expected it to be live DJs on each channel, but they made it much more fun as they were competing to see how many people could be persuaded to switch to their channel. And it certainly wasn't silent: every time one of the channels played a big hit song, a portion of the crowd sang at top volume. It was best to keep the headphones on.


We had expected the three channels to be very different musically. There was a broad cross-section of ages, and I'd imagined there would be age-appropriate channels to choose from, but it was quite a mix, and it made it more fun swapping between the DJs to find out what I was missing. I was surprised to find that we all got into it and ended up dancing the night away until the channels combined for Bohemian Rhapsody, the song that closed the night. It was a lot of sweaty fun.