Since its opening in March, Nick Jones’ Soho House has quickly become the go-to place in Los Angeles. Not only a haven for visiting or resident Brits, it’s now the hip place for Hollywood’s bronzed beau monde to hang. Well, hang and partay.
I was there on Wednesday night, to host a party for Elton John, following his concert with singer-songwriter Leon Russell at the Hollywood Palladium (a venue that manages to look futuristic and nostalgic at the same time). And partay we did, with Mad Men star Jon Hamm, Benicio Del Toro, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, Bret Easton Ellis, Green Day, Sharon Osbourne, Rufus Wainwright, Robert De Niro’s daughter Drena, Matt Goss of Bros, Eric McCormack of Will and Grace, Katherine Jenkins, Minnie Driver, former Andy Warhol acolyte Cherry Vanilla and legendary producer T-Bone Burnett, the man who twiddled the knobs on The Union, Elton and Leon’s remarkable new album.
This was the seventh Los Angeles party GQ has done with Elton and his partner David Furnish; the initial idea was to use it as a way of ingratiating ourselves with the music and show business industries but it’s turned into an annual bacchanal.