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Clubs, Drugs & Canapes


Clubs, Drugs & Canapes

A Deep Journey into the Shallows of the Night

von: Nick Valentine

8,49 €

Verlag: Unbound Digital
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 17.10.2013
ISBN/EAN: 9781783520114
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 240

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<p>Armed with a bottle of Milk Thistle and unshakeable optimism, Nick Valentine has spent most of his adult life in fifth gear, betting on a Royal Flush while covertly holding a pair of deuces. This is his story, the odyssey of a suburban bloke who has blagged, lucked and laughed his way into just about every party, club, stage and hot-tub imaginable.</p>
<p>Following his first brush with celebrity at an impressionable age, and spending his teens and twenties as, amongst other things, a journalist, publicist, club promoter, musician and DJ, Nick eventually banked in the shallows of party central. He spent 15 years as a social editor on London’s celebrity canapé circuit, while co-founding the Entertainment News press agency. An enterprising period acting as a social PR to the super-rich led to him co-founding three London nightclubs in quick succession, including the much lauded Cuckoo Club. With the West End as his nocturnal playground, he then bid sleep a final fond farewell.</p>
<p>Nick professes to have attended well over 5,000 parties in his time, drunk enough champagne to test the Thames barrier and occasionally made it home in time for Countdown. 'I'm a night person,' he says. 'The trouble is I'm a morning and afternoon person as well.' This account is a surprisingly touching, light-hearted look at the daily mechanics of enjoying life to the max and then some.</p>
One man, 5,000 parties… If Adrian Mole and Janis Joplin had a bastard lovechild, his name might very well be Nick Valentine.
One man, 5,000 parties… If Adrian Mole and Janis Joplin had a bastard lovechild, his name might very well be Nick Valentine.
Nick Valentine has been in more bands that he can remember, slept on more couches than he cares to admit and starred in a film he co-wrote and got terrible reviews for … playing himself. He’s been a film technician, trainee surveyor, paste-up artist, DJ and once had a record deal. He was Music and Nightlife Editor for
<i>London Alternative Magazine</i>, spent five years at
<i>Time Out London</i> &amp; co-founded the Entertainment News press agency, and three London nightclubs, including the private members club The Cuckoo Club. His biggest challenge to date however, has been trying to recall the past 35 years of partying so as to write
<i>Clubs, Drugs and Canapés</i>.

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