LONDON: The Phoenix

Saturday 10th October, 2020

5:00pm

Event information

How Does It Feel To Be Loved?
Saturday October 10th, The Phoenix, 37 Cavendish Square, London W1, 5pm-10pm. Last orders is at 9.30pm and the music will stop at 9.30pm as well. The pub will remain open for drinking up until 10pm.

I'm very happy to announce that we'll be returning to The Phoenix on Saturday October 10th, for a seated, socially distanced version of HDIF.

The idea is to provide a safe, regulated space, where people can meet in distanced groups of six, and have a drink, some food, and listen to some lovely music.

I'll also be livestreaming the set, so you'll be able to tune in on mixlr if you can't make it to the club. Dancing is strictly off the agenda of course, so this will be more of a listening lounge than a regular club night, a chance to be in the room while the livestream is happening.

How will it work?

We'll sell tables in advance - there are nine tables of six, one table of five, and four tables of four, all socially distanced. You'll need to buy the table as a whole - you won't be able to turn up as an individual and hope to be seated. The staff at The Phoenix will provide table service, so you'll be able to order drinks and food from your table. There'll be a smoking area outside the pub, so you'll be free to go outside as and when you need to. You won't be able to mingle with people on the other tables - each social group must remained distanced - but the mixlr app has a chat facility so you'll be able to use that to chat with other tables and people listening to the live stream.

How much does it cost?

The price is £5 a head for all tables, apart from the two big tables in the back room (we won't be using the middle table to ensure social distancing), which will be £6 a head.

We play:

Belle & Sebastian * Dusty Springfield * The Magnetic Fields * Love * Orange Juice * The Ronettes * The Ramones * Aztec Camera * Beach Boys * Buzzcocks * The Supremes * The Cure * The Temptations * Velvet Underground * Felt * The Shangri-Las * Allo Darlin' * Otis Redding * The Field Mice * Dexys Midnight Runners * Camera Obscura * The Four Tops * The Go-Betweens * Tammi Terrell * Jens Lekman * Jonathan Richman * Le Tigre * Pat Powdrill * The Sea Urchins * Sleater-Kinney * Os Mutantes * Neutral Milk Hotel * The Left Banke * The Associates * Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

Reviews of How Does It Feel To Be Loved?:

"This hugely popular night knows there are few better ways to enter the new year than with a soundtrack of classic sixties soul and the most danceworthy janglepop and shimmering indie tunes." - Time Out
“A speakeasy for anyone who suspects that their life is one big Smiths song' - Big Issue
'Absolutely the best night in the whole of the world!” - The Guardian
“Much-loved indie pop institution” - The Quietus
“Legendary indie club” - NME
"How Does It Feel To Be Loved has, since 2002, easily been one of London’s best club nights. Its unpretentious and welcoming nature, often fuelled with everything from Belle & Sebastian and Orange Juice to Tamla Motown and Dusty Springfield, swipes away any negative connotations our capital has for being a cold, brutal and rather heartless place." - Music OMH
"With a tag-line of ‘From the Smiths to the Supremes’ it’s the music policy that shapes How Does It Feel To Be Loved?; indie-pop and soul draw a quietly hip bunch of revelers. Best of all they are just so friendly; no aggro or posturing here – it’s all crooked smiles and handclaps." - For Folk's Sake
"With a decade of great nights under its belt How Does it Feel to Be Loved? is one of London's most enduring and influential underground indie get-togethers." Flavorpill

37 Cavendish Square
London
W1G 0PP

www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk