Soho House

Are any of you members? I've applied trying to make the most of my 'creative credentials' but assume because of my job title I still have almost zero chance of being accepted despite knowing half a dozen members. Most irritating. I joined that Ned place when it first opened but it quickly became full of the most insufferable khunts I have ever encountered, that's the trouble with a City based club I suppose.

What's the appeal of Soho House? That's not a rhetorical question. Just wondering what is supposed to be so good about it.

Am sceptical about members clubs in general. Went to Groucho once. It was awful. It was full of people looking over each other's shoulders to see who else was there. No one really seemed to be actually listening to anyone else.

 

Also a member but lawyer not yet in my job description and was already an every house member. Was a member in NYC. Get a half decent reference and you’ll be good. 

Babington House is 👌. Shoreditch House I could take or leave BUT I will say drinks and shenanigans in Shoreditch House Thurs/Friday get very lively. Many desirable norks and with the heat out and masks off, perfect remedy. 

I could be wrong but re: membership, isn’t it partially a numbers game? Meaning age and ££. 

Ultimately, it’s what you want to get out of it. It’s been ages since I saw a celebrity in one but you can meet some interesting and/or interestingly self involved.

Obviously I’m not a member but I did hang out at Soho House a few times about ten years ago, for I had a mate who was a member. How he got accepted I don’t know as he was an IT programme manager. And a psycho. Anyway, I liked the facility but it was full of absolute dickheads every time.

Anyway, SH utter gash. Poky rooms, chippy staff, pseudy and meedja. You want a club to be large and polite, reasssuring. You don’t want some oaf from Surrey grinding his teeth between toots as if he’s made it. 

many years ago I went to the opening night party at Shoreditch House

it was awesome

I was offered membership by a mate who was on the membership committee but turned it down on the basis that the only people I went with were already members and there didn't seem much point

bad decision

I think RoF should found a club irl, and all forum regulars should become members automatically.

A place for ugly but humorous men to cop off with fit but dysfunctional women.

All these City clubs are going to be full of the most insufferable spivs flashing their cash and probably talking business.

Join a traditional Mayfair club if you feel you have to join one at all. 

The quality of the totty in SH clubs has generally pretty high whenever I've been which is another reason why I want to join and why it's better than 'a normal pub'.

Soho House is actually pretty good value.  Last time I checked it was about £150 a month which gets you access to all their clubs - at least 3 in LDN have swimming pools and the Gym at White City is amazing.  I think the joining fee is quite high, but I can't remember how much.

Anyway, the food is fabulous and there are loads of young fit hotties.  I am not sure how these young fit hotties get membership, because apparently you need some 'status' in the media industry, and they are unlikely to have that aged early to mid 20s, so maybe they just put out for the right person / have the right connections.

I have a friend who is a member and I tend to blah an invite whenever they are in town.  It's probably the best way to do it.  

 

It will have been insane there this week - the poolside is literally full of totty prancing around in swimwear at the first suggestion of half-decent weather. 

Club or not, always a good idea to develop a social life un-staffed by fellow lawyers.  I avoided lawyers like the plague at weekends, and attached myself in a buttoned-up, slumming for kicks sort of way, to aspiring thespians (gorgeous E European women, v friendly and un-affected, compared to the dead-eyed social climbers I was used to Mon - Fri), 200mph motorbike  enthusiasts (my bike was too slow, in seconds they were mere dots on a far distant horizon while I did my best, miles behind – but I did not share their seeming belief in their own immortality) and a really bad amateur rock band, full of egotists (me included) who did not like each other’s ideas and who argued about, well, everything.  Joking aside, it was a breath of fresh air to remember that there are vast swathes of humanity who neither know nor care about reverse proof reading an AIM listing doc.  Lawyers in London tend towards social sterility, if they’re not careful.

(gorgeous E European women, v friendly and un-affected, compared to the dead-eyed social climbers I was used to Mon - Fri)

This is a brilliant observation. Middle-class English women are generally awful.  Well the Southern ones are.