The great expectations this weekend turned out to be great disappointments. The plan on Saturday was to catch a glimpse of the new all-nighter parties at Cafe 1001 in Brick Lane and then to check out Wax, a new, ephemeral underground party near Shoreditch hyped by our beloved folks at Timeout.

But a SNAFU was just waiting to happen. Cafe 1001 didn’t host this time the 12-hour marathon, shutting its doors instead a little after midnight.

As for Wax, well I managed to find Plough Yard, a dodgy-looking alley near Liverpool station. But there was absolutely nothing there unless it was so underground and the music was playing so discreetly that I completely overlooked it. I doubt it - I saw others who couldn’t find it and besides the tickets are no longer on sale on the web.

It’s too bad, Wax sounded like a blast - a musical and visual feast at a building slated to be destroyed later this year. This was a green light for artists to spray paint recklessly within the confines of the Shoreditch Warehouse. Apparently, this is what it looked like inside. But don’t ask me about it, I wasn’t there last week.

Photo Credit: Timeout