Thanks to all who came along on Saturday, for an event that marked an astonishing 13 years of the Candlelight Club—happy birthday to us! The Candlelight Club has been many things, starting in a basement room where we made sandwiches for the guests before moving into a larger room upstairs, where our parties were often themed around places or aspects of the 1920s world, such as Paris, Shanghai, London or Chicago, or the Kentucky Derby, Super Tuesday (our corrupt politics special, in which guests could stand for mayor) or rum running off the East Coast with Bill McCoy. We’ve used a couple of larger civic halls, we’ve had events with separate cabaret shows running at the same time as the live music, we did a couple of event at Kettners before it got absorbed by Soho House, and we even popped up three times at the Wilderness Festival. (And every Christmas we put on a few private events for corporate clients: see our Private Events page.)

At our current ballroom venue in south London we this time had live music from the Swing Ninjas, with a special six-piece line-up for the occasion. There was burlesque from Miss Betsy Rose, DJing from Baroness JoJo of the Bee's Knees and hosting as ever by Champagne Charlie. In the bar Michelle Krausz was running her vintage jewellery pop-up. (Commiserations to Lucius the tarot reader who had to miss out because he was recovering from surgery—get well soon.) Here’s to our teenage years!

You can see more photos from the event at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sheridanclub/albums/72177720311454662.