Sunday, 06 December 2009

• (Silent) Party in the UK

  
  

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  Do you like to bump and grind to popping off music in dimly lit rooms full of grooving individuals just like yourself?
  
  Do you never want to stop partying like this, but wish there were a new, trippy twist you could put on this partying formula?
  
  

  
  Headphone DJ's in Uganda. Source.
  

  
  

  If you answered "yes" to all the above questions, then you just might be in the market for a Headphone Disco.
  
  Contained mostly in Europe thus far, and dubbed the "UK's Number 1 Silent Party," headphone disco's are parties which contain all the elements of any normal club party except for loud, all-encompassing music. Though there still is a DJ, and music: instead of being pumped out through speakers, the music is broadcast to giant antenna headphones (like the ones people in the 70's wore while rollerskating that only picked up radio) adorned by the club-goers which amounts to "a mass of humanity, throwing moves, pulling shapes and singing along to what appears to everyone else to be...complete silence.
  
  Welcome to the hugely popular phenomenon that is, 'Headphone Disco'."
  
  These parties originated as conceptual art in France in the 90's but after being circulated heavily by the UK rock festival circuit in recent years, they've evolved into a "full scale clubbing phenomenon."
  
  

  
  Headphone Ecstasy. Source
  

  
  Would you ever go to a Headphone Disco?
  

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