The Best Night-Saving Moments OF ALL TIME

There a moments which kill a night brimming with potential. A list of these moments would probably start and end with The Place via Dakota. Then there are moments that somehow save a night that had started awfully or had never promised to be anything other than five hours of your life you'd never see again. Here I pay tribute to these moments.

• Montpellier Night
  • Began: Drinks were horribly expensive, bars were dead and the only live place was a wine bar full of toffs and tossers. The night seemed lost when we decided to make one final stop at a rough looking Karaoke Bar...
  • Night Saver: Old Singer Man
  • Ended: Group versions of 'Ooh Ahh...Just A Little Bit' and 'Do They Know It's Christmas' started the revival and the night was turned on its head by the single greatest version of Roy Orbison's Drove All Night anyone has ever heard. FACT.
• Marker Pen Night
  • Began: An average night at Dakota which is always worse than average if at Dakota.
  • Night Saver: Inanimate Marker Pen
  • Ended: The fact it's known as Marker Pen Night should be a clue as to how it's remembered. Several pens, lots of skin writing and no long term ink-related poisoning.
• Spooge Halloween
  • Began: It didn't really begin. That was the problem. No one was drinking, we hadn't really planned any games, there was no plan to go out afterwards.It was just a group of people quietly sitting around awkwardly in full Halloween costume.
  • Night Saver: THE DRINK OF TRUTH
  • Ended: THE DRINK OF TRUTH. The foulest mixture put together since Luke was created in that test tube. Technically it didn't really save the night so much least make it slightly more memorable especially to those of us unlucky enough to taste it. Special mention also goes to Matt Bonnie chugging Forska Oats.
• Bang Bang Spooge Bonfire '09
  • Began: There wasn't a lot of hype for it. General assumption was no one would turn up and if they did they wouldn't bring any fireworks which was kind of necessary for the massive firework display scheduled to take place in the back garden. When Laurence was the only person to turn up at the start time of 8 it didn't raise expectations...
  • Night Saver: Fireworks and Chilli
  • Ended: Everyone came. Everyone brought fireworks. Laura brought chilli. Night saved.
• 90s Night
  • Began: Everyone sat around awkwardly not quite sure what to do. Lewis' strobe light melted from boredom.
  • Night Saver: Lewis Murray's Lack of Shame
  • Ended: Lewis and friends streaked (semi) naked through halls chasing John Slough. Lewis dominated 'I've Never' with tales of dog wanking and cousin sexing. Lewis danced naked with his genitals in a cup. The 90's were a simpler time...