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Trendy Britons start `mobile nightclubs' for a little boogie

Still flash-mobbing? Oh dear, how very 2003. The latest craze for ultra trend-conscious Britons, according to a report yesterday, is none other than the "mobile nightclub."

It is essentially a twist on flash-mobbing, a trend started by Web-savvy New Yorkers in which strangers, guided by Internet instructions, congregate at the same public place to perform a generally random act to the confusion of passers-by.

The latest craze, devised by a pair of London artists, sees people directed to busy rail stations so they can simultaneously don headphones and begin dancing to their own soundtrack.

Such a mobile nightclub gathered at central London's busy Victoria Station on Wednesday evening, the Independent newspaper reported the next morning.

To the evident bemusement of suited commuters awaiting their train home, on the dot of 7pm a series of conspicuously trendy-looking people dotted around the station concourse all began dancing wildly.

The instructions, delivered by e-mail, caution against pressing others into joining in.

"Remember you are an individual commuter who fancies a little boogie before heading home, so please refrain from dancing with others," they say.
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