Arts and culture from around the world, with Vanessa Austin Locke
Overheard on helicon
What’s The Story Morning Glory? Well Oasis, as your dirge suggests, it’s deep, desolate misery. The aches. The pains. The commutes. The burnt coffee. The rain. The job that always sucks at that time of day, even if it doesn’t really suck at all.
How many people, if they are really honest, can say they bounce out of bed each day with nothing but joy in their hearts? Yeah, alright Taylor Swift, you shut up.
Meet two dynamic individuals who decided to start a raveolution from their beds. Samantha Moyo, an events producer, and Nico Thoemmes, a bodywork therapist, are the wide-awake early birds behind Morning Gloryville, which began ‘consciously clubbing’ before Gwyneth Paltrow even got her gorgeous lips around the word.
The morning raves take place in East London (where else?) from 6.30am – 10.30am once a month. This is not an after party.
Top-notch coffee, superfood smoothies and free massages
Attendees are asked to arrive sober and ‘ready to embrace the day ahead’. Instead of pills and shots you’ll be buzzing on top-notch coffee, superfood smoothies and free massages. There’s a cloakroom for all your work gear and you’re invited to wear anything you like as long as you can dance in it – even your PJs.
Morning Gloryville has already been featured in Vogue amongst other publications and attracts a varied crowd, from stressed-out city workers to the more predictable artsy crowd. This is not like an aerobics or Zumba class, but a large part of it is certainly focused on fitness. You don’t have to learn a routine, or worry about doing it right. You’re just going to dance it out however you like, and by all accounts the effect is a wave of energy and creativity that will carry you through your day.
As The Millennials begin to reject the rigidity of the working world, and opt for clean living over alcohol and drug-fuelled days and nights, as Silicone Valley re-writes the work rule book and as Mindfulness becomes the buzzword on so many lips, the sheer pleasure of living and inter-acting with each other has begun to spread across even our most cynical cities. And Morning Gloryville, just over a year on from its birth, has expanded into 11 countries all ready to embrace the vibrant, positive energy it brings with it. As one conscious clubber said, all spiffed up in shirt and tie ready for his day in the office, “Where else would you get an osteopathic massage, in a full room of ravers, with Nirvana at full pelt?”
To rave your way into the day go to: www.morninggloryville.com for more information.
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