Torture Garden Valentine's Day Ball - Feb 16, 2008 London

[admirer5577]

:clap:We owe her a drink or two. Thanks for your help kneehighs.

And to all of you who wants to come, tell us as soon as possible so we can arrange with Charlotte. We do not want to wait until the last minute, do we?

I just received absolutely positive news from Charlotte TG, managing director of TG.

Wooohooo!!! Our problem is resolved and I think we owe CharlotteTG a special thanks!

[Pam]

Greeting to all ... KH you da man!!! I do owe you a big drink and a special thank you!! I'm there, taking the redeye flight tomorrow to London ... stilettos and all! See you all soon P

[Firefox]

TG was great in the end. I managed to buy Scott's ticket as he wasn't feeling well. I thought it was going to be rubbish to start with though. Imagine standing on winding spiral staircase going up 3 storeys in 4.5 inch heels with two heavy bags in a 45 min queue for the cloakroom, all the time two other streams of people are trying to get up and down the same staircase. The circulation space qualities of this venue were a heap of shit and that's being generous. Eventually I quit this queue and found another cloakroom down in the dungeon. This only had a 15 minute(!) queue conveniently sharing a narrow corridor with two streams of people going to and from the outside smoking area and also the toilet queue as well as another stream of people exiting the toliet all spiced up by the odd staff security person who wanted to get somewhere in a hurry and barged his way through the mass at 3 times the speed of anyone else. However, once I had got rid of the bags, things were better. There were four music venues on about three floors all with different themes, although the place was absolutely packed with about 2000(?) people. I totally lost touch with the other members of the group through the evening, though I did see from time to time, Rob, A3, Lennert, and Stuart. I started off dancing and listening to some extremely loud electro trance stuff on the second floor for an hour or so, and met some interesting people though conversation is somewhat limited. Then, I went back down the dungeon and had a sit down, watching various people being tied up pieces of apparatus and being whipped or spanked. As I was sitting down going half off to sleep. A couple sat down next right to me and started petting heavily. She then performed oral sex on him and yes she did swallow. After that he brought her off manually. She didn't make a lot a lot of noise but shuddered and panted a lot when she came. A few seats away another couple were going at it conventionally. I have to stress this wasn't the couples room or a quiet room, just an open seating area next to the bar and the torture equipment. I couldn't care less but I think that's the kind of thing you need to be prepared for at this venue. Later I went to another music room and had a dance and a sit down again. I was actually pretty tired as I didn't get any sleep the night before, but the music was quite good, and there was plenty to see in terms of heels and costumes. I would say probably 95% of the girls wore at least 4 inch heels, but only 5% of the guys although a lot of the guys wore those heavy black platform boots. I stayed till about 5 in the morning, at which time the buses were running so I could make a getaway. I got the 5.30 bus to Kings Cross and the 6.30 train and so got back home about 8.00. Cost: Ticket £25.00, Cloakroom £4.00 (2 bags), Bar £8.00(2 bottles of Sol), Taxi (shared) £7.00, Bus £2.00, Train £10.50 Total £56.50

[fastfreddy2]

Excellent 'field' report. Very interesting read.

[bladerunner]

hmm wonder if my wife would be up for a visit!!!!!!!!!!! dream on................. good write up though firefox!

[Firefox]

Actually, if you like club type music properly presented and DJ'd (very loud trance/electro heavy/MOR rock and some quieter stuff in the Dungeon), it's quite a nice club to visit. The croud is friendly, and you are not going to get thrown out because your face doesn't fit the "image". So long as you make some effort and don't wear normal streetwear, you'll be OK. You don't even have to like BDSM, just be tolerant. The other rooms apart from the dungeon are like normal club party rooms. And people make a real effort with their costumes, even the guys have to. It's not boring shirt and jeans everywhere so there's plenty to look at. Male/females were about equal, so that means 800 females or so practically all wearing 4-6" stilettos, and I counted at least 20 girls with completely bare breasts, with numerous others just wearing nipple covers. Even the guys had weird and wonderful outfits. It's just one big soft porn and music show. I don't think there are many better value places for 8 hours of varied entertainment in London for £25

[Firefox]

Come on all the other people from hhplace who went to TG.... What were your impressions, and what did you get up to?

[admirer5577]

My first impression when arriving there was very good. To pick up the tickets and get into the place took no time at all, I guess less than 3 minutes. But then, like Firefox said, it wasn't as good any more. Queing for ages to get to the cloak room in a small spiral stair case isn't the best way to start of an evening. But my experiences from similar events is the same, almost everyone arrives between 11 and 12, and so did we this time. I talked with Dee (one of the staff there) and she told me that they were expecting 1700-1800 guests for the night. A quick math gives you the following facts: 1800 guests for 3 cloak rooms = 600 per room. Spread them out during three hours and it is still 200 persons per room and hour. That's just 18 seconds per person. So I can understand the difficulties. And these places are normally used for "normal" parties and then not everyone has things to check in or need time and place to change. If I say that 75% looked great and 20% awesome you can figure out the enjoyment of just being there. I attends these kind of clubs in Scandinavia and of course there aren't as many guests but the "quality" of the outfits aren't as good either. IMHO, at parties back home my outfit is in comparison quite well thought of and well coordinated and probably within the top 20% at the event. Here I was "average joe" if you see what I mean. It really takes a lot to impress the london fetish scene, that's for sure. Heels are for many people a fetish and then not surprisingly you find most women in high, or very high, heels. And there were also many guys in heels. And let's no forget a3 who walked around in his ballet boots for several hours. I can't remember seeing anyone else in ballets, did you? The place was good in most respects, several dance floors, many bars, play rooms, couple rooms and a chill out dungeon in the basement. The only really negative thing were that it was divided into several floors, only connected with a spiral staircase. My heels were a tad too big and I had to walk rather careful, especially in the stairs, not to trip. Besides I bought new stuff for my outfit at Camden the day before and not until I put it on I realized it blocked the view of my feet so I couldn't see where I put them. Especially unpleasant in the stairs. People are very liberate (correct wording?), just as Firefox described, and shyness doesn't really exist. I am sure that what ever outfit you can imagine to wear, there will be another that tops you. You have the whole scale from nudeness of different degree to full victorian outfits. It is such a joy just to see the creativeness people are showing. One should though be aware, and prepared, that people can be very straight forward in their actions. I was once waiting for a line of people to pass me in a narrow passage way and suddenly one girl stopped, looked directly at me, through her arms around my neck and gave me a kiss. I could of course have stopped her but she was cute so........ but if you don't like it, just say so and they will leave you alone. My first ever visit to the fetish scene was at TG last year and my only regret is that I haven't done this before. Since then I have visited numerous parties in Sweden, Denmark and also Germany.The openess people show and the respect of whatever you wear is great. No one will ever think you look odd or strange. I can only recommend everyone of you to at least once visit a party like TG, just be aware of the dress code as you might be stopped in the door otherwise.