Every year, the August bank holiday has an absurdly frenetic energy – a last hoorah type of party that sees even those begging for the mercy of autumn pulled back onto the dancefloor by those who refuse to accept the warmer weather’s jig is almost up. Soon, it’ll be long nights and (whisper it) Christmas – but it’s not all over yet: free day parties in Hackney, the 60th anniversary of Notting Hill Carnival, a double-billing of Tyler, the Creator at All Points East and Maribou State at Lido festival are reigniting the summer spirit in London alone.
As such, the final bank holiday until December is always accompanied by something else, too: warning messages about drugs, each year seemingly more supersonic than the last. This year’s highlights include: pink cocaine (a mixture of ketamine, MDMA and pink colouring), a new-ish form of ketamine, called 2-Fluorodeschloroketamine, and high-potency ecstasy.
