Run for Shelter – The Blitz Party Is Back

Pin up your victory rolls and wave your Union Jack with pride, dust off your stripes and polish your medals. Turn out that light and pile into our East End air raid shelter because The Blitz Party is back with a bang on Saturday 7th September 2013.

Taking place in Village Underground, Shoreditch, this night promises to be another fantastic showcase of the finest 1940s music and dancing. The venue will be transformed into a wartime air shelter with a swing dance hall, a live music stage, and a bunker complete with sandbags, searchlights, blackout curtains, oil lamps and military bunk beds. Ration books will replace bar menus and scarce provisions will line the walls.'Run For Shelter a night of Forties Fashion and Frolics On 65th Anniversary of D-Day' 

Coinciding with the 65th anniversary of D-Day, 6th June Blitz Party event under the railway arches in Shoreditch, [54 Holywell Lane , Ec2 ] remembering and honouring Britain’s finest with 1940s music and dancing. 
  
The Blitz Party gives party goers the opportunity to step back in time at our 1940s East End air raid shelter, where drinks, dancing and neighbourly spirit are the order of the evening.   

Dress code: 1940's glam, home front utility clothing and allied uniform 

The venue transformed into a wartime East End air raid shelter; c/w : with sand bags, searchlights, blackout curtains, oil lamps & ration books replace bar menus and scarce provisions line the walls. The perfect setting to enjoy 1940s entertainment, including the UK’s finest swing bands, performers and DJs, drink tasty cocktails and dance the night away. 
  
www.theblitzparty.com 
part of the Bourne & Hollingsworth Group

pics and copyright Nick Cunard
commission The London Lite
 

The evening will host the UK’s finest live swing bands, performers and DJs. Big band tunes will play for fun-loving party girls who long to share a Gin French cocktail with a handsome man in uniform. The dedicated Spitfire Bar will quench the thirst of soldiers with hearty British ale and champagne. There will be plenty of war time snacks on hand to keep those jitterbugs going. Another room will project original newsreels and wartime films, accompanied by live music, for a touch of that wartime authenticity. IMG_8719

Ladies, don your lipstick and tea-dresses and draw on those stockings. Gentlemen dust off your medals and wear your uniforms with pride. The Blitz Party returns to London for a blowout party where dancing and neighbourly spirit are the order of the evening.

Dress Code – 1940s glam, home front utility clothing and allied uniform all welcome

Bunker Opens at 8pm, Floor shows & entertainment from 9pm

Blackout till late

Tickets are £20 and sold in advance by visiting The Blitz Party website or calling 020 7724 1617.

Village Underground

54 Hollywell Lane

EC2A 3PQ

www.theblitzparty.com