Review: HOT DUB TIME MACHINE

I can safely say that my friends and I fell in love last Friday night. It appears that London Wonderground is currently a thriving hub of mysterious activity with circus acts, music and comedy gracing it’s stages.

So where does falling in love come into the mix might you ask? In the form of Tom Loud and his time travelling party I’d be inclined to reply. Welcome to the London leg of Hot Dub Time Machine.

My friends and I view clubbing with mixed emotions, sometimes you can’t wait to get your jam on however the tunes can be so monotonous and each club night often only plays one type of music. Snnnooorrreeee. However Hot Dub totally smashed this concept.

Basically they play a song from each year starting at 1954 all the way to 2014. This in itself is a idea I’m surprised has never been adopted before, but you totally realise along the way how many cracking tunes there have been in the last 60 years. Everything from David Bowie, ACDC and The Beatles to Snoop dog (who actually appeared a couple of times), Rihanna and Franz Ferdinand. The sort of music where you look at your chums and scream ‘Omg I love this song!’ just like a gazillion times. It was a mash of indie, Motown, cheese, basically a haven for every themed club night going.

And do you know what? Time flew as we traveled through the ages with the help of Tom and his crew. 99 Red Balloons was sung in its homeland German as balloons exploded from the ceiling, Michael Jackson had his own 10 mins tribute and we belted out ballads until we were blue in the face.

The best thing was you got a good snippet of each song, without getting bored of it as the next one snuck up and swiftly took its place. Hence we *hearted* Tom and his time travelling team.

As the clock struck midnight we crashed back to 2014 with David Guetta (he won the vote over Pharrell and ‘Get Happy’) and wandered home along Southbank singing ‘Drop it like its Hot’. Bliss.

For a Friday night when you’ve had a crazy week at work it was totally perfect. Doors at 9.30pm with the set culminating about midnight. So no 4am finish with large amounts of residual alcohol in your bod and bloodshot eyes the next morning, you wake feeling perky, fresh and humming some cracking tunes.