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, 14 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!
helpful hints
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.
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 :)
We ask​ ask everyone who comes in a large group, including birthday parties, to be respectful of the existing community and to enter into the open spirit of the party.​​​​​​
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We're quite insistent about no phones on the floor, so no texting, no shazaming, no photography, 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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xxxxx​​
history, sound, heart
All Our Friends about came about after Tim wrote a book about David Mancuso and the Loft, started to co-host Lucky Cloud Sound System parties with David and friends in London in 2003, questioned the meaning of life after David stopped travelling to London in 2011, and felt inspired to start a new party after visiting a New York house party called Joy held in 2017. He wanted the new London party to gather more regularly, introduce a Loft-style invitation system, take place on Saturday evenings, not Sunday afternoons, feature shared turntables and refresh the musical mix.​
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Tim discussed the idea with Lucky Cloud co-director Jem Gilbert, who suggested teaming up with Cyril Cornet and Cedric Lassonde, also from Lucky Cloud as well as Beauty and the Beat, which Ced, Cyril and Jem had started back in 2005.
We held our first party on Saturday 13 January 2018 at Chats Palace, starting at 5:00pm and ending at 1:00am. Some people told it was a really bad idea to start our first party at 5:00pm in January but the place was rammed and we had a lovely time!
Our name draws on the Arthur Russell/Dinosaur L line from “Go Bang”, “I wanna see all my friends at once, go bang”. Correct, Arthur danced at the Loft. Because we are a we and not an I we became All Our Friends (not All My Friends).
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Our sound system features six Klipschorn loudspeakers refitted with custom-designed crossovers, one custom-made Klipschorn loudspeaker (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 VMN40-ML cartridges. We are attentive to the importance of dampening.
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After Jem stepped back in 2019 we began to invite guests. We also relocated from Chats Palace to Folklore to Drop Studios to Limehouse Town Hall, which we think of as home. Our open-ended music selection brings together a range of soulful, jazzy funky, cosmic, tropical, live and electronic sounds. A beautiful, spirited and generous team of friends make it all happen!
My Story
We upload party mixes to our mixcloud.​ So you don't need to Shazam :)
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​We aren't on social media because we're more into community parties than multinational corporations so wanted to try to build All Our Friends by word of mouth and sending out simple emails. We also love receiving emails, especially from people who want to join the invite list, just write to tim@allourfriends.org :)
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