A lot of Racing Posts have died to get Playtime this far. It started as a little thing for 120 in tiny bar off Regent St - a mixed night for male and female princesses, playing this newfangled wonky house stuff with the slogan "look normal, they must suspect nothing". Now Playtime has grown up to become the first club to bring new sounds like Claude von Stroke, Abe Duque and Mason to the UK, and a record label described as "label of the moment" by One Week to Live and "one of the best labels to come out of 2005".

In between, there's been some killer releases - little did we know that Mike Monday's 'what day is it?' was huge in Berlin when every UK producer would have killed for success there. And some astounding gigs (Abe Duque's live set with a bottle of whiskey in one hand, very early UK appearances from Sebastien Leger and Oliver Huntemann, and the insane party for the release of Mike Monday's Smorgasbord, not to mention the Fear and Loathing night with Hunter S Thompson on the door...)

But now Playtime is five, and we're ready to move on. June 22 will be our last date at the key, and Playtime moves to the Ministry main room with John Acquaviva's new night Electronic later in 2007 ... But in the meantime, who else should a mixed-up night like Playtime get for its fifth birthday but one of the most mixed-up, ambisexual, fast-talking acts around at the moment...?