10 ways the Night Tube will improve your weekend

"There was this one time, right..." You know how it goes with cabbies. They love to reel off all the celebrities they've picked up in the past, recall all the weirdos over the years and tell of the offers needy night owls have apparently put on a plate for them. They often moan about passengers piling their woes on them, but they're not totally innocent of spilling their own life stories, are they?

Much like the hard-to-shake, mosquito-like gurner chatting shit at the afterparty, cabbies can be pretty draining when all you want to do is get home in peace. Tales of their career behind the wheel is the last thing you wanna hear after a night of banging tunes. Granted, there's likely to be plenty of ear-chewing from strangers on the Night Tube, but it's way more acceptable to listen to your headphones on a train than it is in a cab. Plus, someone that's been boozing all night is bound to have something way more humorous to say.

It’s 5am on a Sunday and the journey techno you were fully involved with two hours earlier feels like it’s not going anywhere after all. You’re with your best squad but you get the feeling that everyone would rather be back at yours cracking on to a soundtrack of piano house played off YouTube. Now that the Night Tube is running, you can easily gather your crew and get the fuck out of there.

Afterparties are going to be so much more easy to reach and thanks to the speed and regularity of the new weekend Tube service, it’ll be a doddle picking up booze on the way to a kick-on and a breeze popping home for a fresh T-shirt and much-needed cheeky livener before continuing an epic through-er. You’ll be round some random’s flat in Seven Sisters or down at Jaded in Elephant and Castle in no time.