The Queen Adelaide is sort of the reincarnation of the
George and Dragon, a famous LGBT venue in Shoreditch that was one the many
victims of London’s nightlife crisis (rent hikes in this case). I never got there before it shut, but the
people behind it have moved along the same road (closer to me in fact) and re-opened the Adelaide to recapture what the G & D used to provide.
On a Saturday, at 1 am my friend and I decided we should
probably go out for a drink after all, and as the Queen Adelaide is open until
3, decided we should probably go there. I’m glad we did. We headed straight
downstairs to where the party was going in the main bar area. But there are
plenty of other little rooms and nooks if you’re not in the dancing mood to
just hang out, which is what we did. People were friendly and we soon got chatting
to a couple of guys who were out on a bit of a bender.
The crowd is quite obviously, but not exclusively, LGBT and
the music policy was pretty decent in terms of playing ‘floor fillers’.
Sometimes a little too poppy for me, but they played quite a good selection of
RnB type stuff, and also a bit of retro 90s stuff too. Ace of Bass I
particularly remember featuring.
3 am came around very quickly and we, and those remaining,
rather reluctantly made our way out of the venue. So good to have a fun (late) local.
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