On July 23rd, The Culture Club recruited a team to take part in Search Party – an interactive treasure hunt organised by Sing London, in conjunction with the Olympic Open Weekend, marking a year until the Games hit the Capital.  The aim was to collect four stamps to get an invite for a party we had to find while picking up cryptic clues along the way. Not the easiest thing to do on a Saturday afternoon, I gotta say, and our team of 9 took roughly 4 hours to get around the trail in Shoreditch, where we had to:

• Taste-test water to see which one was tap, filtered or bottled,
• Sing TLC’s Waterfalls and Frankie Valli’s Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,
• Do an interpretive rain dance,
• Perform the infamous opener “To be or not to be” from Hamlet (directed by a clown),
• Clean an old hospital ward floor with toothbrushes and dustbins,
• Hoola-hoop and take part in an egg and spoon race,
• Draw a pair of criminals from the 1940s,
• Look for a pair of pants (!?),

Plus alot of other crazy bits and pieces before eventually getting to the boisterous party at St Botolph without Bishopsgate. A truly fun-filled day – but absolutely knackering!

Pics: Karen Hartley 
Music: Photoshop Handsome by Everything Everything