Club Opera

We’re going up to London on Saturday. Clubbing. Do you want to come? Sounds fun, we’d love to come. Which club are you going to? We’re going to one of the big ones. We’re going to one of the big, cool ones right in the middle of London.

Even if you’ve not seen a single episode of The Inbetweeners, you might (and probably should) be familiar with the phrase ‘bus wankers‘. Shouted by Jay from a yellow Cinquecento to innocent bystanders on two separate occasions in this episode. One goes well. The other…not so.

Anyway, Simon is driving our four heroes into London to go to a nightclub and pick up girls. In Simon’s case, hopefully Carli. The nightclub in question is actually the (London) Astoria. So this t shirt is completely wrong and meaningless. Thank you and good night.

Ahem. Of course that’s not the case. Sadly, in the late Noughties a thing called Crossrail (£18bn worth of boos, hisses, etc.) came along and – for want of a better phrase – threw a fuck on the Astoria and had it demolished*. So, when the second series of the show came out on DVD, ‘the Astoria’ was overdubbed with ‘Club Opera’. If you’ve had any dabblings with lip syncing before, you can see how this might work. I have no idea why they felt the need to do this, and neither does the internet.

So there you have it. This place is not only fictional (fairly standfard) but was never even in the show at all (most unstandard). Brilliant, hey?

Oh yeah, the design is loosely based on the Astoria logo. With the A Clockwork Orange-esque font and everything. I figured you might’ve already worked that out.

*They took eight years to redo Tottenham Court Road station. EIGHT. Even I’m not that slow.