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There’s not a whole lot of examples where the sequel is better than the original but the House Party 2 – not the 1991 ‘hilarious’ film featuring Kid ‘n’ Play but our own take on domestic revelry featuring cheese and pineapple on sticks – seems to have garnered some pretty impressive reviews.
 
“More of the same from the people who put on the best New Year party we’ve seen in years” The Guardian Guide.
 
“the one place that can bring back the memories of some of your most treasured teenage nights but with none of the curfew issues” The Manchester Evening News
 
Sticking with the film analogy that’s wearing as thin as a Hollywood leading lady, the cast list was pretty impressive too. Our papps grabbed shots of members of Elbow, The View, The Courteeners and Kid British variously dancing, cavorting and propping up the bar and we’d got all our favourite DJs under the one roof for one night only.

The doors opened at 8pm when our 12 hours of preparations were completed (all hail the magical powers of The Ruby Lounge’s Sarah) – the teenager’s bedroom sported some groovy new space themed wallpaper alongside the videos, cars and  health and safety friendly dartboard. Heck, this time we even has a real life ‘Mum’ perched in bed with rollers, dressing gown and multiple copies of TV Quick. There was a steady succession of overly refreshed party goers taking a power nap on the bed, only to rise Lazarus-like to get stuck back into proceedings by jumping on the beds.
 
Ornaments got broken and things got nicked – all £3,000 worth of the Boxfresh T shirts, and bags as well as the England shirts, hoodies and training tops from Umbro. Eagle eyed Will Cooper decoded the cryptic message on the postcard from Jamaica on the side of the fridge and figured it was the VIP Kendal Tickets and the lucky person who bought to 100th Jack Daniel’s got the tickets for the JD Set gig featuring Tim Burgess, John Cooper Clarke and The Whip.
 
The garden was a spring like blast of tulips and daffodils with Ciaran’s hand painted hanging baskets and the tree that just about survived the last shindig. Musical highlights were supplied from the likes of Good Vibrations who partied like it was 1969 and Mind on Fire dropping the brass band version of Snoop Dogg’s finest hour. The Wasted Little DJs not only brought their favourite records but also a bag of gorgeous vintage dresses – one of which was seen on a boy in Burger King at 4AM – Nice!

Will Cooper winning himself two tickets to Kendal Calling festival!

Loose Fit smashed it with their DJ/Live hybrid thang showcasing their new tracks that have been remixed by Greg Wilson and Envy and Eddy Temple-Morris delivered on their promise of something unique for an MC DJ mash up of her new album and his Dance Rocks remixes. The London contingent in the shape Allez Allez and Chop Shop arrived en masse in their very own minibus and brought a little bit of what makes them so popular at Fabric and Cargo – their first gig where the catering is ham sandwiches and space raiders and served in our best 70s crockery.
 
Any fears that Easter over indulgence would affect anyone’s stamina were put to one side as Juicy and Murkage took over from 2am till chucking out time with some of the best party sounds you could wish for. As quickly as we could sneak more beer into the fridge it was snaffled by the sell out crowd and hot cross buns couldn’t be re-stocked fast enough.

People filed out with everything from washing baskets to all our family snaps and we had two hours of sweeping up the broken ornaments and crushed monster munch till we emerged blinking into the daylight for our walk of shame in all our party frocks and newly acquired garments. Keep your eyes peeled for next time the folks are away…