In a time ruled by instant information and the Instagram story-fication of fun, the mystery shrouding Lost has encouraged everyone from Central Cee to Daniel Lee to give it a try, writes Jordan Page.
“It feels like we’ve gone back in time!” my friend shouts in my ear over the blaring techno remix. Instead of our usual stomping grounds of Hackney, Peckham or Tottenham, we’re spending our Saturday night in — god forbid — a postcode that starts with WC. Specifically, we are standing in what used to be the Odeon cinema on Shaftesbury Avenue, which for the past six months has been transformed into a nightclub called Lost.
We’re here because, since the end of last year, Lost has been the club on everyone’s lips but on nobody’s camera roll. It’s strictly a phone-free zone — and I’m not talking about a sticker placed over the camera à la Fold or Fabric. Devices aren’t seeing the “multi-layered venue” — a playground for live music, cinema, performances and dancing — at all, thanks to the magnetic pouches they are placed in on arrival and released from during departure.
In a time ruled by instant information and the Instagram story-fication of fun, the mystery shrouding Lost has encouraged everyone from Central Cee to Daniel Lee to give it a try. I heard about it on a date with a guy who prides himself on being one of the first to try the newest night out. Then suddenly I couldn’t escape it — every post-work drink, coffee catch-up and smoking-area chat included one of three: “Have you been to Lost yet?” “How long did she queue for?” “Did he tell you about what he saw in there?” I have a decade’s worth of nights out proudly sitting under my belt, but I’ve never experienced people talking about one club in such a way.
When I experienced it for myself last month, I understood why. The banishment of phones — and the posing, distracted illuminated faces they bring with them — was refreshing, but it wasn’t the only reason my night out felt like it could have happened decades ago . . .
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