Canvas (Roller Disco) - (Kings Cross - London)

Canvas (Roller Disco)

This was an amazing experience!! I have never been on wheels before so the best idea ever was to get some drinks in in Camden and then make our way to Canvas, a large warehouse/club behind Kings Cross station to roller skate to some banging tunes. We booked the tickets in advance (£14 each) and picked them up on the door- or rather froma  pink van outside the front door and made our way inside, dumping stuff off at the cloakroom then up the stairs into a large room. We picked up our skates from a hole in the wall in the corner and sitting down on the uber-oversized leather seatings with about 30 other people strapped my skates on. The decor of the place was amazing, you could still tell you were in a warehouse but there was terrific flashes of red and pink lighting and fabric drapped all around. To my left was bar serving shots at £3.50 a pop and bottles at £4. Very expensive. The main skating floor had a sideline of more couches and the beginners were all given the opportunity to get some unrushed instruction for free. This room led down a ramp into a second room with a bar, a little darker than the first with a massive skating floor and this led down further into a dark-rave like rink with a DJ in the middle and some awesome skaters running backward circles around the beginners.

The crowd was sensitive to new skaters but it is easy to see why some peopel might be intimidated. Curiously the crowd is a black:white ratio of 4:1. The experience was terrific. Would definitely go again and if it wasnt for the expense i would get drunk on skates too!! Overall 8/10, they have done a fantastic job !!!

Comments

[Roger]

I went 2 the canvas on 16/02/07 and i was truely disappointed, i used 2 skate at Picketts Lock in the 80's and in them days u could not drink their was no gaffer tape on floors, the rooms where 2 small drink was well expensive, they should of kept it as a night club, won't b going back there again and security was rude.