The secret party history of London's £1 million toilet

Kubicle rose to prominence during this time, becoming everyone's favourite cheeky Sunday afters. As it grew in popularity, people would get there as early as possible to avoid being turned away once the club had reached its unofficial capacity.

"It was the afterparty back then, there wasn't really anything to rival it. The atmosphere was always good, and pretty debauched," says Geddes. "That was the time when ketamine was really arriving on the scene, a lot of minimal was played down there, but also lots of stuff from across the board."

He sets the scene, describing the journey up Commercial Street, soundtracked by the incessant thud of a distant kick drum, the volume increasing as you staggered ever closer to the final, sleazy destination.

"You'd be walking up to it and there'd be a few people scattered outside smoking, or you'd see people falling all over the place," he says. "Then you'd walk down the stairs and you'd see 60, 70 people, maybe more, all in flamboyant colours, completely off their tits, in this… toilet. It was a tiny concrete box, they'd cram all these people in there and it would just get totally out of hand."

Geddes first started going to Public Life in its heyday, around 2006, when Kubicle became the go-to spot for many of those who were involved in the capital's burgeoning underground movement. Conceived by Liz Mendez and Sophia Anderson, Kubicle is an East London institution, which was established at Public Life and set the standard as far as afterparties go.

"I'd had enough of afterparties back at my own house," says Liz. "It was Mondays at mine all the time, so Sonia and I decided to look for a proper spot. We were on it, constantly searching for somewhere intimate, somewhere that no one had ever touched before. A friend of mine suggested Public Life and we went to look at it, got the go-ahead, and cained it every Sunday and Monday for the whole of that first summer."

"They had a tarpaulin over the glass roof part, but I told them to get rid of that. We wanted it to be a proper day party, our crowd was so eclectic and colourful we didn't want it to be dark and dingy. I'd come from going to DC10 and having that daytime mentality, so we got rid of the tarpaulin," she explains. "We were always good mates with Clive Henry, Mr. C, Judy from fabric, so it became a 'thing' pretty quickly through our network."