Bat experts, paranormal researchers, musicians and cabaret artists celebrated the close of Artangel Interaction’s Nights of London series. Passionate nocturnalists Sukhdev Sandhu and Scanner provided a spin-off from their Artangel web project Night Haunts in a special live performance entitled Haunted Lullabies: A psalm for London's night souls; and, in A Little Night Opera, Gentlewoman Naturalist Bridget Nicholls exposed to our ears the sonar clash of the feuding moth and bat that hatched the evolution of the butterfly. She performed with Master Gentleman pianist Nathaniel Woodcock as the moth (on melodic and percussive piano) and Mark Pilkington as the bat (on keyboard).
Ghost expert Alan Murdie and sleep scientist Julia Chapman provided talks, while amateur astronomer David Arditti invited guests to join him stargazing in the Library of the Night Project Space.
A cabaret hour was performed by experimental comedian Simon Munnery with magician Christian Lee, artist David Blandy, who presented his White and Black Minstrel Show: The Dark Night of the Soul and artist Donald Urquhart, who was Judy Garland in The Stars Have Lost Their Glitter.
Between performances, guests explored the faded beauty of Bethnal Green's former Town Hall; watched Hitchcock’s The Lodger (A Story of London Fog) through the fug of the smoking cinema; commissioned shadow-portraits by roving silhouettist Charles Burns; and sipped gin distilled by artist collective Puss & Mew while browsing the books and curiosities of the Library of the Night.
