Forthcoming debates will feature YBA Mat Collishaw, software developer Dan Williams and art critic David Lee on whether technology is ruining art and writer Julie Bindel discussing whether we are ‘post-gay’ with drag collective Sink The Pink and Made In Chelsea’s Ollie Locke. Held at venues across the city - a current series is running at the St Martin’s Lane club, Library, while another is planned for The Hospital Club in Covent Garden - the evenings will be advertised on Twitter.
Guest speakers discuss a subject for 20 minutes before it goes to the floor. Now, with her friend Zara Shirwan, she runs First Edition Talks, a roving social debate forum - a modern-day salon, if you will. ‘It almost killed us,’ says Glass, but the experience opened her eyes to an unfilled niche in the capital’s nightlife: ‘It became apparent that people are really interested in coming to these kinds of events.’ For six weeks, Glass and Lo Dico virtually lived in the venue, a small room in Soho’s Kingly Court. News of the club spread by word of mouth, on Twitter and on Facebook. Tickets for almost every event - including a debate between Playboy Bunnies and a member of the No More campaign musicians Katie Melua and VV Brown on their experiences of the male-driven music industry and the classicist Mary Beard on rebellion throughout the ages - sold out within a week. ‘There might be this humiliation where you tell everybody you’re doing this thing and then nobody comes.’
‘It was like having a party,’ says Glass, a columnist at The Sunday Times Magazine. Hen the journalists Katie Glass and Joy Lo Dico set up a pop-up members’ club, The Other Club, last autumn, with a different debate, talk or dinner each night of the week, they had no idea whether anyone would show up. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
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