next party:​
Saturday 15 November
Limehouse Town Hall
646 Commercial Road, E14 7HA
7:00pm to 4:00am
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future dates:
17 January, 7 March, 16 May
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about
All Our Friends is a Saturday evening community dance party featuring a high-end stereo sound system hosted by Cyril Cornet, Cedric Lassonde (Beauty and the Beat, Lucky Cloud Sound System) and Tim Lawrence (Love Saves the Day, Lucky Cloud Sound System). We hold our gatherings in Limehouse Town Hall.
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Because we want to build a community, entry is via an invite list. Once you join the invite list you're on forever! The list is also inclusive, not exclusive! If you want to join Friendship Train, just email tim@allourfriends.org!
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Our parties run from 7:00pm to 4:00am unless otherwise publicised. Prepared by Wendy, a vegan buffet is available until 9:00pm. We encourage early arrival for more socialising, more food, more music, more dancing and more fun!
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Entry is £15 or £10 for the unemployed and the hard up (please let us know if this applies to you). Wendy's buffet is a fiver. If the cost of entry is prohibitive you can always help out with the set up and/or take down, just send us an email!
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We like human interaction so nothing is automated at All Our Friends :)
If you'd like to reserve in advance please email us specifying the number of entries (up to four) and meals and Tim will send you a unique payment link. If you reserve in advance you'll be guaranteed immediate entry up to 11:00pm.
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We also hold back a large number of places for sale on the door on the evening of every party. Once we reach capacity we go to one-in, one-out, but usually we don't get to that point as there's plenty of room in the hall!
We politely request that dancers don't use phones/cameras or wear backpacks on the dance floor as this makes for a much more lovely dance floor experience. We offer a complimentary cloakroom (no charge, no tips). We ask dancers to be considerate of the people around them. We also insist that everyone should be able to gather and express themselves free of harassment.
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​See you on the All Our Friends dance floor!
All Our Love,
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xxx Ced, Cyril, Tim and the All Our Friends team xxx
more info
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All Our Friends held its first party on Saturday 13 January 2018 at Chats Palace, starting at 5:00pm and ending at 1:00am. Quite a few people told it was a really bad idea to hold our first part in January and to start it at 5:00pm. But the placed was rammed and everyone had a lovely time!
The party came about after Tim went to party called Joy, an offshoot of the Loft in New York, in the spring of 2017. Having authored the first book to tell the story of David Mancuso's Loft and having co-founded Lucky Cloud Sound System with David and other friends in London in 2003, he left with the feeling that he’d come as close as he ever would to David Mancuso’s first location at 647 Broadway and resolved to start something that would complement Lucky Cloud Sound (especially as David had stopped travelling over during 2011). The new party would gather more regularly, introduce a Loft-style invitation system, take place on a Saturday and not a Sunday, feature shared turntables and foreground a less historically indebted mix of music.
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Tim discussed the idea with his friend and colleague Jem Gilbert, and soon after Cyril Cornet and Cedric Lassonde, all of them good friends from Lucky Cloud. Cyril, Ced and Jem had co-hosted Beauty and the Beat, the first audiophile community party to evolve out of Lucky Cloud, since the 2005, where they combined David's Loft aesthetic with a more global sound. All Our Friends followed a sonic trail that opened up between Beauty and the Beat. After a year Jem stepped back. Since then we've invited guests to join Ced, Cyril and Tim, usually once every two parties. Post-covid restrictions led us to move to Folklore on Hackney Road. Space restrictions prompted us to move to Drop Studios in Haringey. Management restrictions then ushered us to Limehouse Town Hall, which feels like a true home.
The All Our Friends name draws on the Arthur Russell/Dinosaur L line from “Go Bang”, “I wanna see all my friends at once, go bang”. It also alludes to the house party/high-end stereo ethos that dates back to David Mancuso’s Loft, where Arthur would head to listen to his music.
Our evolving sound system now features: six Klipschorn loudspeakers refitted with custom-designed crossovers, one custom-made Klipschorn loudspeaker featuring top-of-the-range components (built by Johnny Craven), seven sets of “false corners”, Mark Levinson and Sugden amps, an Isonoe mixer and a custom-made splitter (both designed and built by Justin Greenslade), and two Technics 1200s fitted with upgraded Jelco tonearms and Audio Technica VMN50-SH cartridges. We are attentive to the importance of dampening.
Our open-ended music selection brings together a range of soulful, jazzy funky, cosmic, tropical, live and electronic sounds.
The heart of All Our Friends can be found on the dance floor. A beautiful, spirited and generous team of friends make it all happen.
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Our invite list is closely modelled on the system introduced by David Mancuso at the Loft, with the exception that we communicate via email rather than physical mail.
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All Our Love,
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All Our Friends
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helpful hints
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If you reserve in advance your name will be on the reserve list on the door.
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If you reserve for friends we don't need to know their names, everyone will be under your name.
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You can pay for food on the door.
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Last entry is around 1:30am.
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We offer refunds if we're given 24 hours notice :)
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The bar/chill-out area is great for catching up, the dance floor is great for dancing!
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If you have any concerns about harassment you can approach the venue’s experienced security team, who are the first line of care for safety and are also first-aid trained.
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We ask dancers to keep their tops on :) We ask drinkers to be considerate of people dancing around them :) If you want to make out with someone please find a private space away from the floor :)
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We are welcoming of birthday parties but ask everyone who comes in a large group to be respectful of the existing community and to enter into the spirit of the party.​​​​​​
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We're quite insistent about no phones on the floor, not for texting, shazaming, photograph, nothing. We ask for this so that everyone is able to be present in the moment and folks on their phones don't spoil the energy in the room for others. If you have to check your phone you're welcome to do that in the bar/chillout area :)
Small hip bags and belt bags​ are fine but please check anything larger into the cloakroom.
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If you bring a guest please pass on this info.
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Thank you thank you thank you!​
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All Our Love,
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We upload party mixes to our mixcloud.​
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​We aren't on social media because we're more into community parties than multinational corporations. Instead tim@allourfriends.org sends emails with info about upcoming gatherings. We also love getting requests join the invite list :)
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