Join the Bingo Revolution

You've got to fight for your right to... Play bingo.

The word is out: there's a revolution on the streets. Secret groups of sweaty youths are thronging together and meeting in clandestine locations where they hold illegal and unlicensed bingo parties.

The Underground Rebel Bingo Club is leading the way and bringing bingo to a fresh, new, generation of daring youngster who are not afraid to raise their daubers to the sky and say 'HOUSE'.

These house parties are not the ecstasy-fuelled raves of the 1980s and 1990s, where the mashed masses would gurn and dance until the early hours.  No... These youngsters are taking anarchy to a whole new level and fighting for their right to cross numbers off a bingo card.

Bingo's emergence as an anarchic cause celebre has undoubtedly been stimulated by the ongoing emergence and evolution of online bingo. So popular has online bingo become that now the kids are taking it back to the streets, and holding underground parties where they can reclaim those unfettered feelings of sheer bingo bliss.

The underground Rebel Bingo Club is putting the 'go' back into bingo with campy vaudeville shows where burlesque bingo callers pull numbers out of a giant hat. It's all about having a great time and laughs-a-plenty. It's about bring bingo back to the masses (although the rules of the club do explicitly ban old and fat people, office, hen and stag parties, idiots, and pets).

Dress code for Underground Rebel Bingo nights is 'weird' and all the bingo prizes are sponsored by I Want One of Those.

Bingo is increasingly being seen as an alternative fun night out for students. Local bingo halls offer cut price drinks and most clubs will hold funky, loud music nights where noise and dancing and the order of the day, as well – of course - as a bit of bingo.

Where does it end?  Already, you can enjoy bingo in an organised environment, or play it with the kids in a secret location. Perhaps the future of bingo will be online, with cams, connected to giant plasma televisions: private games, where everyone chips into the pot and shares the money without the need for a middle man. Who knows?