They hitched rides on the back of motorbikes that brought them towards the bright lights of one of the few clubs still open in Gueckedou.
The lights are low and atmospheric, fairy lights blink around a bar stacked with wine bottles.
Yet real life takes over for the instantly likeable Lawn when the cameras and lights go off.
Only if that capacity were used up would National Grid be forced to consider dimming lights, telling companies to reduce energy use or other drastic measures, Fletcher said.
Paying businesses to cut their power use at peak times to keep the lights on is no way to run a modern economy".
He spent the next 17 hours there – approximately, as it was a windowless room and the lights were kept on overhead – while police attempted an interrogation he described as a fishing expedition.
The lights in our collective thinking are also at risk of going out.
Sometime in the middle of the night, the television turns back on, the lights flash open and the taps start running again.
"When I'm out on a bike and I see someone doing something stupid I will absolutely have a word with them at the next set of lights," he said, adding: "There was a guy who was riding like an idiot, jumping lights, cutting up the pavement, and I just said: 'You're not helping matters here.
And I probably don't even need to start talking about red lights, do I?
High ceilings, ambient low lights, the jostling of besuited office workers.
