NIGHTLIFE
EARLY NIGHT CLUB
A WINTER UNION
Miss your dancing days but feel a bit out of place in a nightclub these days? Love a night out but can’t bear the thought of battling through a ten-deep mob of 18-year-olds at a bar? Crave a night of dancing but need to be a responsible adult come 8am the next day? Listen up! Early Night Club is a club night with a difference. It’s aimed at grown-ups after a great night with like-minded people, with music you can dance to and best of all: it finishes early enough that you’ll have a fighting chance of not being a zombie the next day. This month they’re hosting a special Christmas party at La Raza on the 13th, featuring excellent tunes, lovely tipples, tasty food and as always, we’re sure, a lively dance floor. Expect lots of sparkle and sequins, a good three or four hours solid dancing and a generally fun time with a great crowd. “The big debate every year is whether to play any Christmas music,” says Early Night Club founder, Alex Ruczaj. “It’s a no from the majority of our clubbers – they just want stuff they can dance to. If it does happen it is at the end of the night and then people do get into the spirit of things. For the most part, the Christmas party is simply a shinier, more glittery version of all our nights, filled with great music, cocktails, tapas and people that love to dance.” Tickets are priced at £12.50 – snap them up quick if you’re interested as they tend to sell out. buytickets.at/ earlynightclub1/73134
Set to be a real treat for Cambridge folk music lovers this month (we know there’s plenty of you!), St Barnabas Church on Mill Road will host a musical celebration of the season on Friday 16 December. The event, which begins at 7pm, features leading lights of the British folk scene performing gorgeous songs inspired by Christmas and the winter solstice. On the bill are Jade Ward, Debbie Hanna, Ben Savage, Hannah Sanders, Cliff Ward and Stu Hanna, with the organisers promising plenty of “soaring harmonies, exquisite musicianship, and some Christmas classics.” Tickets cost £19 advance and can be booked via the Cambridge Junction website and purchased on the door. www.junction.co.uk
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THE OVERTONES Doo-wop dreamboats The Overtones are back in Cambridge this month for an evening of Christmas crackers at the Corn Exchange on 20 December. This slick vocal harmony group have now sold over five million records and had five top five albums, but not so long ago they were working as decorators together. In a story straight out of a Hollywood script, the boys were working at a shop on Oxford Street, singing out in the street on a tea break, when lo and behold a top talent scout heard them. Soon after they signed a major record deal and the rest, as they say, is history. The suave songsters will be performing favourites from their back catalogue, as well as reworks of classics such as White Christmas, Santa Claus is Coming to Town and Let it Snow. Tickets start at £25.25. www.cornex.co.uk
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