Others realised that they liked dance music but not nightclubs. By eight, you’re in the club”, and “by 12 you’re out”. With Before Midnight, she says, “You can go for a really lush dinner at six. Some, like Brooks, emerged determined to get back on the dance floor but on new, more wholesome terms. The coronavirus lockdowns, which took clubbing temporarily out of the mix, made many people in their 30s and 40s re-evaluate how they wanted to spend their weekends. You have to get up and do the Saturday-morning football practice at 9am.” “I never wanted parenthood to change me in that way, but, inevitably, it just does. “I just didn’t want the night to start at 1am any more,” she says. Jodie Brooks, a 44-year-old who has attended every Before Midnight party in London to date, works in advertising and like MacManus has two children aged six and nine. It sold out, and, at the end of last year MacManus announced a 10-date Before Midnight tour of Britain and Ireland – Macmanus will play at Vicar St, in Dublin, on St Patrick’s Day and Banana Block, in Belfast, on Saturday, March 18th.īefore Midnight is particularly popular with women, who MacManus estimated make up about 75 per cent of the crowd. The first night, held last year at Islington Assembly Hall, a London music venue, was a one-off experiment. Photograph: Lauren Fleishman/New York Times The premise was simple, she says, “a definitive club night that’s just like a normal one, only earlier”.īefore Midnight: Annie Mac during her London set. Before Midnight was her next act, she says, a fresh project to restore some work-life balance.

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