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THE LOST CHANCE SALOON: LONDON

It was our great pleasure to announce the most hedonistic happening to date and seminal spectacle of 2014 ‘The Lost Chance Saloon’ which opened its doors on 16th and 17th May 2014 under the cover of darkness. Guests were invited back to a vintage age of gambling and glamour, dancing and debauchery, jazz and gin. In an age where drinking was a clandestine pursuit, last chance saloons sprang up in border towns, to provide revellers with a final helping of fun before entering the ‘dry zone’. The Lost Chance Saloon was an intellectual infusion unlike any other: a debauched delicacy of delights known only to those in the know. From drag queens to deep web dwellers, brass bands to crazed chemists – this was an event to remember with some behaviour worth forgetting! Pics and vids are below Lostlings…

 

 
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Prof. Dame Sally Davies

Dame Sally is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England and the first woman to fill this post. She is a haematologist with specialist research interest in sickle cell disease. In her advisory post she guides government decisions on diverse subjects such as superbugs, drug trials and obesity. Her recent book The Drugs Don’t Work outlines a frightening vision of…

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Vicky Pryce

It's pretty extraordinary for an ex-offender to walk into a top government job just a few months after leaving jail. But then Vicky Pryce is no ordinary ex-offender. She spent nine weeks in prison for accepting points on her driving licence for her husband (former cabinet minister). Always one to find a silver lining, she wrote a book about her…

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Joseph Cox

The Deep Web is the new Wild West, a vast foreboding World beneath the surface of the searchable web we know and love. Accessed through special software and anonymized at every stage, this murky underworld brims with sordid secrets and terrifying tales. It's scale (several magnitudes larger than the searchable web) is astonishing, it's a place you can buy drugs,…

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Nir Paldi

Nir is probably the first artist to explore the Israel- Palestine conflict through the medium of drag and Caberet. Garbed in a gold lamme dress, he’s toured his experimental show nationally to critical acclaim. Described as a ‘theatrical hand grenade’, his show Ballad of the Burning Star, is a fiercely emotional attempt to understand the complexity of the occupation and its…

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Andrew Szydlo

Andrew specialises in the history of chemistry. However, unlike most academics, he practices what he preaches. Known for his highly performative approach to talks, he's given sellout lectures everywhere from The Wellcome Collection to the Royal Institution, all of which went down with a bang; audience member abound with anecdotes of him whipping out gypsy violins for a quick fiddle…

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Hackney Colliery Band

Imagine The Prodigy but with more trumpets, trombones, saxophones, sousaphones and marching percussion. Follow this with nuggets of funk, hip-hop and high-octane rock from the musical coalface and throw in a few chunks of Balkan brass, ska and contemporary jazz for good measure, and you’re starting to get the idea. The Hackney Colliery Band are a nine piece brass band…

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Paris Lees

Paris is a multi-award winning ‘media whore’ (her words) a transgender activist, journalist and campaigner and a leading voice in the LGBT community, recently named most influential LGBT figure in The Independent’s Pink List. She contributes regularly to Vice with acerbic articles like ‘We Need More Common Slags Like Me in British Politics’ while working to promote diversity in the…

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Aubrey De Grey

Aubrey’s research is as astonishing as it is ambitious. To those technically minded amoungst you, he is a theoretician in the field of gerontology. If like us, you have no idea what this means, Aubrey studies the metabolic behavior of cells in a bid to end aging. He is the Chief Science Officer at SENS, an organization that is using…

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Christine Cynn

Christine the BAFTA-winning co-director of one of the most surreal, innovative and harrowing documentaries of recent times. The Act of Killing invited the war criminals responsible for the Indonesian Purge of 1965-1966 to reenact their murders through the medium of film. Using a variety of genres, such as musical and western, the men portrayed their role in one of the…

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Julian Baggini

Is food the key to what makes us human? And should we spend even more time thinking about it? Julian is a philosopher, author and founder of The Philosophers' Magazine and Microphilosophy, a website of small thoughts about BIG subjects: from ego tricks to atheism, pigs ‘that want to be eaten’ to those that presumably don’t. His most recent book,…

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Cassetteboy

Cassette Boy are an electro comedy duo who’s identities to this day remain something of a mystery. They have taken YouTube by storm with all manner of cuts, edits and frenetic mashups gaining millions of views and earning them several (slightly awkward) TV appearances. They’ve mocked the world at large with their vids (The ‘Bloody’ Apprentice was a notable contribution)…

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Alabama 3

Loyal Brixtonites, but with global success. Alabama 3 were catapulted to fame when their track ‘Woke Up This Morning’ (Chosen One) became the The Sopronos theme tune.  Since then, they’ve been touring across the world, with a sound that mixes rock, dance, blues, country, gospel, and generally epitomizes cool. Following an intro by one of their reveared founders ‘Larry Love'…