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London - This Time It IS A Power Surge, They Think

The reason why we have to cancel the launch party of the VICE GUIDE TO SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL tonight at Urban Outfitters, Oxford Street, is because too many of you are using your air conditioners. That's what EDF Energy, the private company who controls all the electricity are saying about this huuuge bummer …

That's right. The huge increase in usage of crappy fans that cost £17.50 in Argos that all the Turkish and Bangladeshi-owned stores in the street have perched on the counter next to the flashing mobile phone holders and Tupac posters, have caused all the electricity in the West End to fail. As a result, they're turning off the power at our party venue from 6pm until they sort it out and, presumably, arrest the perpetrators of this massive problem they are calling "fan crime"…

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We expect anybody who is using the air conditioning in this area to turn it off right now and suffer the heat of their shitty shop while thousands of truant schoolchildren, drug addicts, immigrants and tourists tread on your feet and ask you stupid questions in pidgin English.

There's more! A week before this all happened, EDF Energy announced it's charging customers 19 fucking per cent more for their gas services and 9.1 per cent more for their electricity, from next Tuesday.

On average, thanks to companies like this your electricity bills have risen more than 50 per cent in the last three years. Who's in charge of them? Mr Burns? That's him there at the top left. That's what he looks like in real life.

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Keep checking back to the blog for details of the rescheduled book launch party.