Our friends down at Spitalfields held their Christmas market opening on Thursday night and a bunch of us headed down to join in the festivities.

It certainly wasn’t like any Christmas do we’d seen before; transvestite poets, a helium choir, burlesque dancers and (personal favourite) a marching kazoo band. All great fun and the turn out was pretty impressive. Here’s a few pics and videos to give you a taste of what you missed out on.

Lovely assistant Darren presenting the Order of Ceremony:

Quick tribute to Colman’s trainer faux pas (far left).

A tuneful rendition of (something) from the Helium Choir:

A slightly less-Christmassy, but no less entertaining effort from the Marching Kazoo band:

Look out for our ‘Socks Kill Christmas’ posters around Liverpool Street station next week.