Meetmyfriend Valentine's day Party Press Coverage
Meetmyfriend's Valentines Party is "Party of the Week" in the Sun Herald February 17 2008
Amy Cooper writes for the SMH Diary pages:
"I have always been of the opinion that the only good Valentines Day is one spent alone in a dark airtight chamber preferably several kilometres beneath the ocean. Whether I am coupled or single I cant abide the forced affection the kaleidoscope of kitsch and celebration of everyone into winners and losers in love and so it is always with reluctance that I venture out on this calendar black spot.
The Meet My Friend Party promised at least some respite from the city wide orgy of speed dating and horrible fluffily toys. This new social networking website where you introduce your single mates to other peoples single mates is free from the usual dating website vocabulary of finding love" and perfect matches and other such nonsense. Having fun is the emphasis is the emphasis and the party was based on the same principle. It promised a solution to other corny and contrived Valentines Day celebrations, an opportunity to celebrate love and friendship without feeling desperate or dateless. "
By the time I arrived, I was in the more in the mood for a public flogging. The walk from the CBD was like a long slow stroll through a circle of hell populated by red balloons and cheap flowers. I was not the only one eager to escape, the queue outside Ruby Rabbit snaked along Oxford St and, inside all three floors were packed with revellers wearing expressions of relief at the absence of tacky paraphernalia.
There was no red and white nastiness just rose petal martinis scattered chocolates and up among the VIPs in top floor De Nom a giant champagne glass. In it was a burlesque dancer Rachel St James doing a sexy dance. She splashed the men who got too close and also send Annalise Braakensiek fleeing for cover, either to protect her designer frock or her spray tan or both. Meanwhile the party continued to escalate the place was so full the doors had to be closed and still the queue remained as if the club was the last lifeboat from the sinking ship of Valentines horror. Inside some decorated themselves with "My Friend Fancies You" sticky notes other hooked up but most just danced and celebrated their freedom. Upstairs in De Nom among the likes Tali Jatali ex Wallaby Ben Darwin and Nova's Jamie Row, we drank Champagne as midnight approached and the V- Day faded for another year. Hours later the happy hoards were still reluctant to leave in a town where parties are the answer to everything. This one proved a perfect antidote to a heart shaped hideousness. Let's lock it in for next year.
