CANDYBOX AT PROPAGANDA 21/5/3
Candybox used to be the student�s choice of a Wednesday night in Soho, with the words �baggy flares and cheap drinks� appearing in every review. Then it seemed to disappear up it own backside for a while � a la Trash � and I for one stopped going. But hooray! Candybox is back and a fantastic time was had by all. Why? First, the venue never fails to please � stylish but laid back, dark enough to dance (i.e. not a Student Union) with the crappy toilets we all loved (?) at Le Scandale (confusingly now the top floor of propaganda � it hurts my head to think too much about it). Drinks are still amazingly cheap - �1 for a spirit and mixer and I don�t care about beer but that was probably cheap as well. Bar queues are thankfully a bit shorter but still not great. The crowd was happy and pretty- not as stylish as Trash but when mullets are back in style I think that�s a good thing. And the music�Mainly feel-good indie without (on the whole) being too cheesey and this interwoven with some funky Motown cuts. The Djing was perhaps a little predictable- Teen Spirit followed by Just � and there was at least one disastrous-10-seconds-of-silence moment but on the whole it was crowd pleasing. Heck, we even sang along to Ocean Colour Scene � although I can�t emphasise enough how very cheap the drinks were. However, no amount of alcohol could ever make me appreciate Justin Timberlake and for that I give a stern indie snob look. But on the whole, a great night out � they had to make us leave at 3 � and definitely a recommendation. Do you ACTUALLY have something better to do on a Wednesday night ?!