SCISM Night Club?Show up and DO YOUR SHIT! A Space? A Workshop? A Rehearsal? A Free for All? YES YES YES Anyone and everyone is offered a 15min slot – to do, say, project or play anything they want! Tech needs supported.
Sat 8 Oct: Mammory Tapes
Bringing your mammories out of the closet and onto the dancefloor. DON'T STAY IN. COME OUT.
Because we all know the best part of a night is hang times with the gals (or guys) at home, but what if you could bring your bedroom beats (it's cool, we're still listening to Britney when we get ready too) to the big speakers?!
Requests at the ready, come and make mammories with us at our launch party! #makingmammories
VFD £3 ADV / £5 DOOR 10pm-3am We shake our money makers to the likes of:
THE SLITS | YEAH YEAH YEAH | CHVRCHES | ICONA POP | LE TIGRE | BANGLES | BLONDIE | SHANGRI-LAS | HAIM | HINDS | GRIMES | MADONNA | ROBYN | JENNY LEWIS | KATE BUSH | LAURYN HILL | BEYONCÉ | GIRLS ALOUD | LITTLE MIX | SPICE GIRLS | LA ROUX | SHOPPING | TLC | THE RUNAWAYS | CYNDI LAUPER | DESTINY'S CHILD | TRASH KIT | COURTNEY BARNETT | PJ HARVEY | SISTER SLEDGE | DOLLY PARTON | DONNA SUMMER | BUSH TETRAS | B52S | SLEATER KINNEY | AU PAIRS | DELTA 5 | SLANT 6 | MARINE GIRLS | RAINCOATS | SHURA + LOADS MORE
Plus, this month we're remembering all the rad women in our lives - mums, sisters, aunties, friends. And their mammories.
On that note, we'll be collecting for Breast Cancer Care on the night, so bring some change to help make change for people affected by breast cancer.
Advance tickets available here.
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Wed 5 Oct: Spoken Word London
Spoken Word London is an open-mic poetry and performance night for anyone to come and join in, whether to speak or listen. Everyone who wants to speak gets five minutes, but no one gets more than five minutes. Speak in whichever format you want, sharing your own or others' work. Doors open 7.30pm, sign up for a slot 7.30-8pm, readings begin at 8pm.
Free entry, but please buy a drink (or more) at the bar.
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Watch a brilliant short documentary upon SWL and some of its regular readers, made by Amelia Hazlitt, here: http://vimeo.com/103176010
And a feature length film of our first anniversary of SWL 'Anti-Hate', made by Timothy Lock, here: https://www.youtube.com/
SWL host Patrick Cash talks about SWL and spoken word in London on Lunar Poetry: https://www.youtube.com/
SWL's second anniversary Anti-Hate is covered on Push Pony by Tracy Kawalik: http://pushpony.com/
Sat 1 Oct: Winky Winky Fanny Pun
She's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!! Save the date: Sat 1 Oct, for the 2nd edition of Winky Winky Fanny Pun.
Our first party was an absolute riot and we're just about recovered and ready for round 2...
Winky is the bastard child of two discerning lesbians with a love of soulful house, and a penchant for soulful ladies.
**All welcome in our sanctuary of non-binary finery**
Expect: classic house, jackin' grooves, goosebump vocals, and some truly outrageous moments in a basement of friendly faces. Strictly rhythm / strictly no attitude / house music all night long.
Girl DJs packing some massive deck action on the night will be:
Dawn Chorus MamaSutra Mitch Imeanit
Fri 30 Sep: Sassitude
Summer is dead (RIP).Your hopes of an Indian summer have been washed away with the torrential rain that has swept the nation. But fear not, for the weather may be getting colder but the sass is only getting stronger. As TLC once said, don't go chasing waterfalls, stick to the sass that you're used to.
That's right, we're back stronger and sassier than ever before. Grab your fur coat and high heels and get on down to VFD on Friday the 30th (but maybe sport an underwear as outerwear look underneath - it gets pretty hot inside when you're living for the dancefloor and have had 5 shots of tequila)
♥ ♥ ♥ UR DJS FOR THE EVENING ♥ ♥ ♥ Everyone's favourite portu-gal diva ALEX SIMOES Sassy startlet of the night EMILY ROSE ENGLAND
+ more to be announced
£5 entry all night 10pm-3am #keepitsassy
THU 29 SEP: Matthew Glamorre's presents SCISM
Matthew Glamorre presents SCISMEVERY Thursday at VFD.
Check this out for a taster ! SCISM Referendum Night Show https://goo.gl/YK6eCE
“A nightclub should challenge current ideas and aesthetics, break new boundaries and create new modes: it should be a beacon to the brilliantly dispossessed.”
Known as one of British Nightlife’s most significant innovators, Matthew Glamorre’s clubs are more installation art than disco.
SCISM is Matthew’s new audio visual project: a band, a club and a show. This weekly residency @ VFD is the 'Club Experiment' where Glamorre explores "'new musical directions, people & possibilities, I am going back to go forward, my first club in 10 years. For me the nightclub is essential,exciting, the crucible of the zeitgeist. What is born on the tiny floors of London can later move the world"
SCISM is all about polarities "… as the world becomes more polarised so ideologies and identities become more extreme. I explore the fault lines between the black & the white, the yin and the yang, that’s the field of potential, where opposites collide.”
SCISM is video & sound manipulation fused with performance, technology, politics and ideology.
SCISM launched on the night of the EU referendum “heralding the great British division”
SCISM Night Club will feature The Rainbow Curtain, an interactive light installation by artist Terry Payman.
Bio Glamorre has been at the forefront of many British underground movements since 1987, his clubs like 2XS, Smashing, HARDERFASTERLOUDER, The Siren Suite & Kash Point were instrumental in the development of the music, art and fashion of the times. He is also an award winning short film and video director.
In 1991 Glamorre pulled the band Minty together around Leigh Bowery & Richard Torry and went on to front it after Leigh's death. He founded & directed The Offset, am amorphous live art collective; artists such as Ron Athey, Grayson Perry, David Hoyle & That Donald worked alongside musicians and technicians to create epic 5 hour shows. Most recently he completed a world tour of 'Albion Voice', a 10-year collaboration with the artist & singer Bishi. He co-wrote and produced the album, designed the artwork and directed the videos and live AV performance.
A multi-faceted artist for sure this ‘Dalston period’ promises an ever-evolving sketchpad of ideas, provocations, and confrontations; where technology and performance will be harnessed to question our divisions and play with what unites us.
SCISM Night Club will bring together an exciting range of multi-disciplinary artists and performers, no one night will be the same !
£5 // £3 g-list
Sun 25 Sept: Sunday FUNDAY - binbag ball 2016!!
After the colossal party that was [error_404_] bet you didn't think we had it in us for another one, but we're back and this time we're getting fashionable darlings!!! In light of Vogue's September issue and Yeezy's latest atrocities, Maxi More and her merry Sunday~Funsters are flagrantly disregarding normative notions of clothing and costume to bring you THE BIN BAG BALL 2016!!!
That's right, we're throwing a trashy toga party, where everyone is Donnatella Versace!
With even the tattiest of Dalston fashions now prohibitively priced due to brexit and luxury flats, the future relies on us being able to express ourselves through cheap immediate fashion! SUNDAY~FUNDAY is here to ignite the flame of fashion inside you, whilst reminding us all that everything is trash and our colourful lives are trash, and even the shiny perfect people in your newsfeed, THEY'RE TRASH TOO!!!
(If you think this is harsh, then you're not cut out for fashion).
The Bin Bag Ball 2016 will be all the FUN you've come to expect from our Sunday night queer dance party come late~night~drag~show, but basically covered in bin bags. But because we know all about fashion now, there are a few extras!
Because of fashion, we're being all edgy and have live music performance, which is very AW16. There will also be a promenade (some call this a catwalk) of our most outlandish bin bag fashions, and our esteemed judges will decide who gets the crown and title of "MISS BIN BAG 2016", as well as a hamper of coveted fashion accessories and £10 to start your own fashion empire!
Doors open from 9pm, with fashion show and cabaret from 10:30 onwards.
DANCE~DRAG~DRINK~GAMES~SHO
Fri 23 Sep: I'm Not Okay
SEASONS CHANGE, PEOPLE MOVE ON, BUT EMO IS FOREVER, IT'S NOT A PHASE MOM ! It's September, we're feeling the seasons change. It's getting a bit darker and a bit colder and all these bloody leaves are about, and we're feeling very emo.
Ten years ago, it was tough being gay or a girl (or a gay girl) and being emo to boot. You spent your days crying and painting your nails black while listening to sad boys in eyeliner, singing songs that expressed somehow, exactly how you felt inside. Writing the lyrics in your MSN messenger username, complaining about how your parents don't get you, constantly changing the spelling of your birth name to sound cooler, taking high angle selfies so you got your ENTIRE fringe plus your Converse in the photo, seeing just how many letters you can remove from a word before it stops being that word coz you only had 160 characters per 34p text message and you only have £10 credit per month, wearing that Nirvana hoodie till it literally fell apart, answering 100 pointless questions on a Myspace bulletin and posting "PC4PC" on all your friends photos. Recently we all got a bit of a heart attack when MCR posted THAT VIDEO, and suddenly all these things came flooding back (or perhaps they never left) and since it turns out there is no reunion tour (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ we are going to throw a flippin party instead! Dress to the nines in your best Disco Goth and come down to our Emo Ball to mosh around/scream at the top of your lungs/cry standing still to your favorite bleeding heart tunes.
All night we'll be playing bands like Panic! ATD, My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte, Green Day, The Used, Hawthorn Heights, Papa Roach, System of a Down, Fall Out Boy and basically anything emo or pop punk from around 2001 onwards and there will be absolutley NO Lostprophets.
£5 entry all night, we are so DAMN EXCITED Ｏ(≧▽≦)Ｏ
Sat 17 Sep: Sister Magazine - The Size Issue - Launch Party
THE SIZE ISSUE IS COMING! Celebrate the fifth issue of Sister Magazine ♥
Full deets coming soon, so keep your eyes peeled!
Sat 17 Sep: TILDE SSW17 Presentation
TILDE SPRING/SUMMER/WHATEVER 17 A FASHION PRESENTATION ON THE LONDON OVERGROUND
DEPARTING 15:00 FROM NEW CROSS STATION (PLATFORM D)
ARRIVING DALSTON JUNCTION 15:22
(JOIN AT ANY STOP ALONG THE WAY!)
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Spring/Summer/Whatever 17 is a pastiche of fashion objects inspired by domestic handicraft and American art in the 1970’s, intended to defy the traditional restraints fashion imposes on gender and genre.
“My inspiration started by imagining a hapless teenage punk band in the late 70’s practicing in their grandmother’s basement and using the textiles found there to make their own clothes.”
Tilde Snyder is a designer, performance artist, and musician (formerly of SAILOR POON), originally from Austin, TX now residing in London. She primarily works with vintage fabrics and reclaimed materials to create one off and limited run pieces, an antithesis to the mass production fast fashion model.
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Tues 13 Sep: Extra Second London - We Don't Need No Education
We're back! And this time it's (slightly more) personal. Extra Second London is a monthly poetry/debates night where we take an extra second to reflect on the ideas touched on by our featured poets. We give you, the lovely audience, a chance to make your voices heard - because poetry shouldn't be a spectator sport.
This month's theme will be Education. We'll be discussing our experiences with the education system, what we think is wrong with the current system and, most importantly, what a better system would look like.
We have three incredible featured perfomers this month, as well as an open mic! And once all that's out of the way we will open the floor for the main event - a round table audience discussion. We had some brilliant thought-provoking discussions at the last event and this one promises to be no different!
Doors open at 7.30, entry is £5 and the open mic sign up is first come first served at the door.
This month's features:
POETCURIOUS is a HipHop poet from north west London spitting political provocations for youths of all ages.
HANNAH GORDON is a Spoken Word Poet from North West London. She has featured at events across London and won the Boomtown festival slam 2014. Her poetry is honest and deeply rooted in her experiance. She is a primary school teacher and is looking forward to sharing some of her pieces around the theme of education.
THOMAS ‘GHETTOGEEK’ OWOO is a psychology and sociology teacher who, for last 13 years, has been using rap, spoken word and poetry to engage disaffected young people in north west London. He has been a manager of an alternative education seclusion unit and was an SEBD Advisory Teacher for Brent Council where he has trained schools, staff and pupils in finding ways to reduce exclusions from school. He is soon to take on the role of rap therapist and spoken word teacher in a primary school in London and is launching his poetry organisation called Ghettogeek Academy in September 2016. He is also the founder of the new creative arts YouTube channel called GhettogeekTV. http://tinyurl.com/
These three have all spent their fair share of time in and around the education system and are just as excited to share their views as we am to hear them! BE THERE!
Weds 7 Sep: Spoken Word London
Spoken Word London is an open-mic poetry and performance night for anyone to come and join in, whether to speak or listen. Everyone who wants to speak gets five minutes, but no one gets more than five minutes. Speak in whichever format you want, sharing your own or others' work. Doors open 7.30pm, sign up for a slot 7.30-8pm, readings begin at 8pm.
Free entry, but please buy a drink (or more) at the bar.
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Watch a brilliant short documentary upon SWL and some of its regular readers, made by Amelia Hazlitt, here: http://vimeo.com/103176010
And a feature length film of our first anniversary of SWL 'Anti-Hate', made by Timothy Lock, here: https://www.youtube.com/
SWL host Patrick Cash talks about SWL and spoken word in London on Lunar Poetry: https://www.youtube.com/
SWL's second anniversary Anti-Hate is covered on Push Pony by Tracy Kawalik: http://pushpony.com/
Sat 3 Sep: HELP!!!!!
Do you need HELP!?!?!?! This Saturday at VFD we will be hosting the END OF THE WORLD!!.
Imagine if everyone else outside the 4 walls of VFD suddenly died? What would you do? How would we survive? These are the questions that HELP! hopes to answer (seriously) through the spirit of dance, performance and alcohol-fuelled fun. We plan to figure this out together.
With your dystopian queen and host for the evening Ms Kevin Le Grand guiding you through the apocalypse. She will be bringing with her the comedy talents of Ms Emily Pope who will be asking the question 'is a queer end of the world really so bad?'.
We will then dance the night away with the DJ stylings of Josh Quentin as we twirl our way into the new world.
ALSO: there will be a prize given to the best end-of-the-world couture, so dress to DESTROY
MORE DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED VERY SOON
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN BEGINS NOW
£5 ENTRY ALL NIGHT
Sat 27 Aug: Straight Nasty Bank Holiday Weekender
“We’ll offer you 100% of the party, but we want 33% of your bank holiday.” – Deborah Meaden Debbie’s taking a night off from rubbing her fingers together to celebrate the BANK HOLIDAY the only way she knows how – cha-cha-sliding her way onto Drake’s controlla. Join her for THE NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE!
CLICK 'GOING' FOR £3 ENTRY ALL NIGHT
Straight Nasty's ICONIC playlist includes: Rachel Stevens ♥ Geri Haliwell ♥ Mis-Teeq ♥ Kelly Rowland ♥ Madonna ♥ Jennifer Lopez ♥ Kylie ♥ Aaliyah ♥ Cher Lloyd ♥ Sophie Ellis Bextor ♥ Cheryl Cole ♥ Eve ♥ Rihanna ♥ Cher ♥ Sugababes ♥ S Club 7 ♥ Aly & AJ ♥ Steps ♥ Diana Ross ♥ Backstreet Boys ♥ Peter Andre ♥ Nicki Minaj ♥ Cascada ♥ Gaga ♥ The First Wives Club Soundtrack ♥ Loreen ♥ Atomic Kitten ♥ Ariana Grande ♥ Mel C ♥ Mel B ♥ Victoria Beckham ♥ Emma Bunton ♥ Spice Girls ♥ Amerie ♥ Beyonce ♥ Althea and Donna ♥ Donna Summer ♥ Cheryl Lynn ♥ Billie Piper ♥ Janet Jackson ♥ Kelis ♥ Missy Elliott ♥ RuPaul ♥ Britney Spears ♥ Katy Perry ♥ Little Mix ♥ Shakira ♥ tATu ♥ Charli XCX ♥ Venga Boys ♥ Scissor Sisters ♥ Lil’ Kim ♥ Lady Sovereign ♥ Lily Allen ♥ Kevin Lyttle ♥ Selena Gomez ♥ B*Witched ♥ Khia ♥ Gloria Gaynor ♥ Christina Milian ♥ Wham! ♥ Olivia Newton John ♥ Dead or Alive ♥ Pet Shop Boys ♥ Gareth Gates B Sides (jokes) ♥ Alesha Dixon ♥ Aqua ♥ Azealia Banks ♥ Fergie ♥ Gwen Stefani ♥ Blondie ♥ Christina Aguilera ♥ Girls Aloud ♥ Destiny’s Child ♥ M.I.A ♥ Taylor Swift ♥ Holly Valance ♥ Shania Twain ♥ Dolly Parton + MORE CLASSIC HITS FROM THE BLITZ!
AUGUST 27th 10-3AM £3 FB guestlist / £5 VFD, 66 Stoke Newington Road
With resident DJs TR!NNY & $U$ANNAH (Debbie, Slagbox) SHY CHARLES (Clit Rock, Best City Fashion) JE M'APPELLE ROCHELLE & GG BEAR (Nancy's @ Dalston Superstore)
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CHIC C'EST LA VIE!
Thu 18 Aug: Pakeezah
KIM HOWELLS & RYAN LANJI INVITE YOU TO CELEBRATE THEIR #MAJE& #FRESH JOINT BIRTHDAY 18th AUGUST 2016 9PM - 1AM STRICTLY INVITE ONLY! PLEASE RSVP TO >> MAJEFRESHPARTY@GMAIL.COM <<
**PASSWORD WILL BE GIVEN FOR ENTRY 24 HOURS BEFORE THE PARTY **
HOSTED BY: PAKEEZAH (DALSTON'S FIRST BOLLLYWOOD / RNB NIGHT)
BOLLYWOOD | HIP HOP | BHANGRA | RNB | GARAGE
DJ SETS BY: RYAN LANJI LIL INDIA (FROM JALOOS FAME IN VANCOUVER, CANADA) TRU BLU
Wed 17 Aug: Spoken Word London
Now on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month, Spoken Word London is an open-mic poetry and performance night for anyone to come and join in, whether to speak or listen. Everyone who wants to speak gets five minutes, but no one gets more than five minutes. Speak in whichever format you want, sharing your own or others' work. Doors open 7.30pm, sign up for a slot 7.30-8pm, readings begin at 8pm.
Free entry, but please buy a drink (or more) at the bar.
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Watch: a brilliant short documentary upon SWL and some of its regular readers, made by Amelia Hazlitt, here
a feature length film of our first anniversary of SWL 'Anti-Hate', made by Timothy Lock, here You can also read an academic dissertation written on SWL here, by William Barns-Graham, on 'Lost in the Moment: Opening Up Utopian Performance With the Lost Generation at Spoken Word London'
SWL host Patrick Cash talks about SWL and spoken word in London on Lunar Poetry
SWL's second anniversary Anti-Hate is covered on Push Pony by Tracy Kawalik
Tue 16 Aug: Extra Second London
Extra Second London is a new monthly poetry/debate night where we take an extra second to reflect on the ideas touched on by our featured poets. We give you, the lovely audience, a chance to make your voices heard - because poetry shouldn't just be a spectator sport. This month's theme is: The Future of British Politics.
With the Tories taking a sharp turn to the right, Labour seemingly on the verge being torn apart, the rise of UKIP, the possibility of another Scottish referendum and the small matter of an EU exit to negotiate, our political system seems to be approaching a turning point. So where do we go from here? Come along and have your say.
We have 4 wonderful featured performers this month as well as an OPEN MIC! If you'd like to perform we ask that you keep it topical, but it is a free county (for now...).
Sign up is on the door from 7.30.
Once all that poetry is out of the way we will open the floor for the main event - a roundtable audience discussion on the month's theme. Looking forward to hearing all your opinions on a topic that's sure to spark some heated debate.
This month's featured speakers:
JASON PILLEY has been performing poetry in London for the last four and a half years. In 2012 he won and lost various slams, he featured at all the best and most of the worst poetry-nights, he won the oh-so-prestigious "Farrago Zoo Awards" award for Best Debut Performance and was selected to take part in Apples & Snakes's "The Word's A Stage" programme. In 2013, in a futile but glorious attempt to position himself as the Humphry Osmond of poetry, he put together a group called The Mind Gang and organised open acid-trips at various unlikely sites: groups of poets took legal analogues of LSD in the British Museum, Kew Gardens, the Tate Modern, Durdle Door, etc. In 2014 he collaborated with the classical violinist Oktawia Petronella on the epic "The Invention Of Opera": having decided that pubs and bars and coffee-shops are the opposite of poetry, the pair performed their reimagining of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice at graveyards and in churches, in art-galleries and on random buses, in a disused cavernous tunnel under the Thames and by the legal-graffiti wall in Leake Street... Also that year he handed out three million free copies of his one-off poetry-zine entitled "Uh! Uh! Uh! Uh! Uh! Uh! Uh!" 2015 was boring. So far in 2016 he's published a collection of his and his friends' poems called "SPIES 4 LIFE," he's distributed three hundred copies of that collection to random strangers as part of Intergalactic Poetry Day, and September will see the release of his new poetry-pamphlet, a depraved experiment entitled "SEEDPOETRY.".
MARC LIVINGSTONE is marxist poet from Glasgow. He writes poems slagging off capitalism in the vain hope that he will be appointed poet laureate after the revolution.
DEAN MCKEE is a spoken word performer based in west London, who has a taste for word play and imagery and uses these to create stories that will touch your very core. He uses honesty about his upbringing and childhood to give you a look into who he is and his almost rap like flow will mesmerise you. Definitely one to watch for the flow alone.
SAM BERKSON, aka 'Angry Sam', has been hosting and promoting live poetry events with Hammer & Tongue for ten years. He has won slams, performed in three continents and published two books of poetry with Influx Press. His debut, 'Life in Transit' was described as "a highlight of 2012" by cultural theorist Mark Fisher. He followed this with a commission for Fishbar photogallery of poems written around Dalston's Ridley Road market, composing the text of Lorenzo Vitturi's award winning photobook, Dalston Anatomy. His most recent collection, Settled Wanderers, records his experience living on the Western Saharan refugee camps and contains the first English translations of Saharawi poetry. Poet Chris Searle, writing in the journal Race & Class, said that the "poems carry a particular kind of powerful witness in their lyrical solidarity. They are narratives of empathy with the lives of people he encountered”.
Sat 13 Aug: Dirtbox
Summer is here! Are you ready to get sweaty? Then cum and get hot and bothered at the Dirtbox den of manfun. Throw on your jockstraps and harnesses, slide down those steps into VFD's sleazepit and take a deep breath of amyl to loosen you up. Residents Gibson and The Duchess of Pork are joined by guest DJ Wes Baggaley, bringing you heavy loads of hiNRG, electro, new beat, house, italo and whatever else they fancy to get your treasure trails in a twist.
10pm - 3am
Fri 12 Aug: Dirty Diana
DIRTY DIANA"..an adoring dancing disco for homos and their homies.."
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Meeeeanwhile, hit attending for £5 entry FRIDAY August 12th and ready yourself for all the LOVE with some unexpected surprises alongside your usual suspects and a li'l bit more..
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Sat 6 Aug: Callbox Club
Welcome to the first instalment of the Callbox Club. Let’s go back, way back, to a night of music from a single year – with pop hits, underground sensations, remixes and reworks all released within those 12 months. Some you’ll know, some you really should know, and some you’d never have expected.
We’re going to rinse one year for all the good music it’s got.
This is not a retro night. Leave your rose-tinted glasses at home. We’re here to prove that great music always feels timeless.
Join us and help transport a year’s worth of energy, emotion and love onto the dance floor.
And no - we’re not going to tell you which year we’ve chosen. So don't ask.