The Hoxton Pony Says Screw Valentines this Friday (12th Feb)!

Celebrate your singledom this Valentines the Pony way, with no hearts, fluffy animals, flowers and definitely “No-strings” attached.

So you’re hot stuff and don’t want to schlep around town like a single loser this Valentines, well we say come for a ride at the Pony with our Screw Valentines night complete with whips, free drinks and anti valentines games.

Come along and try your luck at ‘Spin The Pony’, win drinks, shots, dinner with another single of your choice or tokens to be used on the following games:

The Spanking Booth: Comes complete with a Hoxton Pony model: have your spank and win a drink.

The Naughty Cupboard: Complete with handcuffs, whips and blindfolds. Take another single in for 60 seconds and win free shot.

Mug Shots: Complete with dress-up outfits find a single and try your luck with making the funniest photo of the night to win a free shot

Bring down your worst Valentines gift to gain free games vouchers.

All gifts collected at the end of the night will be given to charity.

Table Bookings

The Hoxton Pony offers pre-bookable tables at the event. Everyone who reserves a table will receive the unique infusion jar filled with an alcoholic love potion to share amongst your group. The love potion is intoxicating and irresistible to any single containing Belvedere Vodka included in the price of your table. Now if that doesn’t get you screwed nothing will!

Contact: Elodie@thehoxtonpony.com 020 7613-2844 for table/group bookings

Lineup:

Groove Bionix, Andrew Collingwood

Tickets are on sale here:

http://www.clubtickets.com/gb/2010-02/12/the-pony-says-screw-valentines-

But don’t despair ye fellow singletons. OK so the shops are already brimming with all things ’I love you’ and your coupled-up friends are planning their romantic meals for two, but we at Yogo have decided to embrace the big V-word this year. Yep you heard us; no sitting in the darkest corner of the grimiest pub, gripping your umpteenth glass of – well whatever it is it’s dangerous – and bitching about the sorry state of the world. It’s time to get out there and make the most of being single on Valentine’s Day. Seriously, who’s to say you won’t get lucky in love and even if you don‘t, surely it’s a good excuse for a night out with a twist?

To give you a gentle push in the right direction we’ve compiled a list of fun and quirky events to help get you into the spirit of luuurrrvvve this February. Whether you’re in the mood for some fast-paced speed dating, lock and key game playing, grey-hound racing, football-table-flirting, or courting the animal way, read on for a bit of Valentine’s Day inspiration.

The Yogo Valentine’s Diary

- Tuesday 9^th Feb

SpeedDater’s Dating in the Dark. Speed dating with a Twist! Stanza Bar, Shaftsbury Avenue.

- Thursday 11^th Feb

Music Speed dating, with Pure Groove DJ’s providing the music. Pure Groove, Farringdon.

- Thursday 11^th Feb:

X-Factor’s mid-week Valentine’s Speed Dating Party, The Chapel Bar, Islington.

- Saturday 13^th Feb:

X-Factor’s Weekend Valentine’s Singles Party, Stanza Bar, Shaftsbury Avenue. An evening that kicks off with some speed dating fun, followed by some lock and key game playing and a chance to get involved with a Photo Flirt Wall.

- Saturday 13^th Feb:

Single Solutions’s Valentine’s Party for smarter professionals, The Cuban, City Point. Ice-breaker games to start with champagne prizes plus optional speed dating sessions.

- Sunday 14^th Feb:

Drop in and Flirt, Bar Kick. Table-football flirting with a game of 2 halves. This event is free for Valentine’s Day!

Animal Magnetism, The Grant Museum of Zoology. Learn a little more about courting the animal way. Not strictly a Valentine’s event – but who knows how you might feel after the talk?!

Greyhound racing, with a special Valentine’s Day menu. Continuing the animal theme. Will winnings at the bookies lead to success in your lovelife, or will you come home with a dog?!

So check the diary, chat with your chums and join us in making the V-Word fun for singles in 2010.

London seems to be overflowing with people coming up with creative singles events at the moment!

We recently featured Shoot Experience’s photo dating treasure hunt, and now we’ve come across the ‘Lone Ramblers and Rambling Roses’ evening at the Rambling Restaurant, open for two nights only on 3rd and 4th December.

via Airs and Graces

The Rambling Restaurant is one of these ‘underground restaurants’ that have popped up in the last few years in London, where people open up mini part-time restaurants in their front rooms. They’ve exploded in popularity recently, spreading their reach via blogs and Facebook.

People love the illict thrill of attending these parties, which fall in somewhat of a legal grey area (they normally don’t sell booze as they’re unlicensed), and because they are part of an underground foodie scene you’re likely to meet some like-minded people.

Dinner dating has been around over in the US for a while and has been very successful – people like the relaxed atmosphere and the chance to meet new people and have a proper chat rather than shouting in a busy bar

So it seems a natural step to get a whole load of single people around for what is basically a public dinner party. No longer will two singles get stuck on the end of the table, ‘to see if they get along…’

Update: All the ‘Rambling Roses’ (ladies) tickets have sold out on Thursday!

Guys – a room full of amazing food and ladies awaits! For Thursday tickets click here, or for Friday’s event click here

These are services offered in London as a form of an event where people are presented with the opportunity to meet new people who are not familiar to them with the hope that they will see them often. London is among the cities that has adopted this service of speed dating.  Speed dating in London has been created particularly for those who are willing to meet the right people but are too busy with other areas of their life. This however does not necessarily mean that anyone is shut out. The benefit of speed dating in London is that it has created an environment to meet people of common interest due to the large numbers.

The speed dating in London is not like any other date sites that are full of dodgy and sly human beings who are up to no good; characters likely to waste your time and cause disappointment. To avoid such tendencies, the speed dating scene in London has come up with a technique to find out the best candidate for you and one who likes you.

Since you will be meeting many people, the potential candidate is given a card in which you will mark appropriately what you feel for each candidate.  The mini-dates last two to three minutes before the participants move to the next candidate. The aim here is to meet as many people as possible in the shortest time. This service has often led to future partnerships that led to lasting marriages between candidates

“London Dating Scene” is sure to satisfy you, irrespective of the type of dating you are into. Finding dates online has become popular enough. The term “dating” concept is now used beyond the conventional formula of boy meets girl. There are now dating websites which contain specific categories and interest groups such as mature dates, single parents, ethnic and religious, political or social interests etc. dating. When you talk about London dating scene, one can feel comfortable, since London is considered to be one of the best cities in the world to fulfill your relationship goal, especially with regard to “London Dating Scene”.

Dating websites are becoming more competitive by using advance technologies in order to attract new members with sophisticated features, services and search tools that are tailored to individual requirements. These sophisticated dating websites are seen in the form of personality tests, voice-chat hookups that allows you to speak to a potential profile match, before meeting them face-to-face. Some online dating services are free based, while others have paying members. Mostly dating website, invite free communication in the initial stages. This is to give you a feel for the site and its members, before committing to a subscription. Online dating is a growing passion in London. Like any other major city, it can be a bit daunting if you are a new comer to the local dating scene. However, when you want to experience a happy London Dating Scene, you can depend upon the London dating websites for looking for a genuine date. You can easily hook up with your dream date, right here in London.

London is a huge city and it consists of vibrant people which represent most of the world’s cultures. In the case of singles staying in London, there are many different methods of dating. One can find many specific London online dating sites that deal with specific cultures living and working in London. If you don’t have the time to sort out individuals who are looking for other singles in London, you might want to consider publishing a personal advertisement. Another new method of dating is referred as “speed dating”. Here, many singles meet in one location. Each meeting lasts for few minutes. However, those few minutes can give you the opportunity to quickly access whether there is any chemistry between you and your specific partner.

“London Dating Scene” might differ slightly from dating in the rest of the world. This is mainly because there are many people from a variety of cultures living and working in the city. Online dating is recognized as one of the easiest ways for finding friendship and romance. However, when it comes to online dating, including the London dating scene concept be clear whether you want to have a long term relationship, simply companionship or you are just looking for someone with similar interests. However, avoid sending out mixed messages.

If you live in London and eager to find your soul mate, try London speed dating. It is the newest dating craze and has taken that metropolis by storm.

In London speed dating two groups consist the same number of men and women are placed in a venue for an evening. Everyone spend three minutes–no more and no less–with each member of the opposite sex group, one after another, throughout the whole night. Ladies are seated at tables (a table for a lady, with a number corresponding to the number stuck on her chest along with her name) while gents circulate. Each three minutes elapse, a whistle is blown, a mark for the gents to swap partners.

Everyone holds a printed sheet of numbers representing the embedded numbers on everyone’s clothes. One ticks a “yes” or “no” tiny box after spending three minutes with another. At the end of the night all sheets are collected, results collated and, within 24 hours, potential matches are e-mailed to all London speed dating members. After that, those couples are supposed to find their own ways to have real first dates. To fall in love. To find that both are meant for each other.

Problem is, three minutes is in fact quite a short time to getting to know the real deal. Rather than spitting out smart lines as an opening gambit, London Speed Dating members often feel more worried and spend the whole night in corky situations.

Of course, it is bound to happen that at some point you will end up with someone you do not like–the law of averages makes this a certainty. When this happens, the three minutes may seem so long and all you want to hear is the whistle blowing.