Sunday, 8 October 2017

Anthony Crolla's Afterparty WENT OFF


Who saw Mancunian Anthony Crolla's fight against Scotsman Ricky Burns last night? If you missed it...


I caught up with it this morning, but had previously set up a meetup for the afterparty in new Deansgate Locks bar El Diablo, and secured guestlist from promoter and Love Island competitor Scott Thomas. He'd suggested it would be £10 on the door, but as my name was down the girl at the entrance let me straight in.

The club's dรฉcor was quite unique, with brown couches and backlit mesh covers to the arches that make up the Locks, a set of bars built into the arches of a viaduct. The club's music was refreshingly dancier than most, but what made it more unique was the luminous stilt-walking robot men. Obviously.


The club still has a few growing pains- a couple of plasma screens froze, and there was a strange smell at times that I couldn't define.

The clientele seemed pretty chilled out, friendly and with a good mix of ages. One guy could have passed for a very drunk Michael Fassbender, but I'm pretty sure the guy who's hand I shook was Love Island season 2 winner Nathan Massey. Someone in there looked like season 3's Tyne-Lexi Clarson, and she promoted it over her Twitter a few days ago, so I'm guessing it was her. I didn't quite ask in time.

As the night drew to a close I managed to say hi to Anthony Crolla himself. We'd both been at a youth boxing event in Oldham a few years ago. A good guy, he remembered the event.


Good fun. The bar's worth going back to!

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