TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
It's a trend I've noticed more and more in London in the last couple of years. It's fucking irritating having to wait for more than ten minutes to get served in a venue.
The Fridge reopening as Electric Brixton
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Good job you didn't stay to the end, by then it was in Tunisian Dollars and there was a riot.
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hiraethified
That'll be all the hipsters and trendies with their hoity toity drinks and cocktails. And fucking Guinness. That shit takes an eternity to pour.
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
I've always thought if a busy bar serves cocktails, they should have a dedicated part of the bar for it. Say you have 4 staff on and 3 are making cocktails, it takes them out of the serving loop for far too long. And then if number 4 gets a cocktail order, everyone's fucked
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hiraethified
Definitely. Let the cocktail poshos queue up for their fiddly little drinks while the serious business of beer dispensing is attended to by the majority of the bar workforce.I've always thought if a busy bar serves cocktails, they should have a dedicated part of the bar for it. Say you have 4 staff on and 3 are making cocktails, it takes them out of the serving loop for far too long. And then if number 4 gets a cocktail order, everyone's fucked
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
I think it comes down to training as well. My friend runs a pub right next to a big London venue and his staff are like a crack team of bar ninjas. They will happily take 3 orders at a time whilst pouring and remember them all. The bar gets very busy, but no one is left waiting for more than five minutes. They don't make cocktails though.
I suppose that's a mixture of enthusiasm and my friends ethos when it comes to good customer service.
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hiraethified
I've always thought if a busy bar serves cocktails, they should have a dedicated part of the bar for it. Say you have 4 staff on and 3 are making cocktails, it takes them out of the serving loop for far too long. And then if number 4 gets a cocktail order, everyone's fucked
Can we have a thread dedicated to this sort of thing please
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
snowy_again
Slush
No amount of beer would make Hard Fi palatable for me! The venue looks good though.
I've got tickets for the Brixton Pound thing out of curiosity and I'm still tempted by the Feliz da Housecat / deFreq weekend thing.
I've got tickets for the Brixton Pound thing out of curiosity and I'm still tempted by the Feliz da Housecat / deFreq weekend thing.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Photos of the inside look pretty impressive. Although the outside is an improvement upon the sad derilection of the Fridge it is pretty disappointing - really cheap build (badly mounted stickers on ply and visible bare studwork) which will almost certainly degrade quickly. Horribly drab IMO (I like grey - but battleship grey?). Hopefully it's just a temporary fix until they get a better idea of whether they can make a go of the place. Good luck to them though.
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hiraethified
I'd imagine they've had to stretch their budget very thinly indeed to attend to all the work needed to get the venue open again. The front doesn't look great but it's better than how it looked recently.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
I imagine the budget to get that place sorted to it's current condition would make most people's eyes water!
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
I think it is princess grey! The poster mosaics look very vulnerable
Rushy
basically a scrotum
The latest additions make it look like a teenagers bedroom. It is a fun for a single event but a is going to become very tiresome as a permanent installation IMO.
stevebradley
Well-Known Member
They've invested a serious amount of money in the place, so any suggestion that they're taking a 'suck it and see' approach to potential success is way off the mark in fairness. Their either going to make a success of the venue, or go down trying.
They did have a very tight timeline for works prior to opening though, so I wouldn't be surprised if a few of the finishing touches were patch-ups for opening night with a view to addressing them properly afterwards.
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hiraethified
Indeed. They must have already spent a small fortune on the place.
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Oh, and don't forget, I'm DJing the Brixton Pound launch party at the venue in Thursday - and it's free (but get in quick to bag your tickets!
http://www.urban75.org/offline/index.html#29092011
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Oh, and don't forget, I'm DJing the Brixton Pound launch party at the venue in Thursday - and it's free (but get in quick to bag your tickets!
http://www.urban75.org/offline/index.html#29092011
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Rushy
basically a scrotum
Sounds like you know way more about the project than I do. I hope you are right that the front is a just temporary patch up just for opening night. It certainly does not have an air of permanence.
ska invita
back on the other side
Whats the verdict on the Electric? most importantly, what's the soundsystem like? The Fridge rig in its last days was excellent I thought - I fear it was ripped and replaced with tinny tat..
BTW: looking at their forthcoming events there's just one thing in Jan and one in Feb...doesn't sound too sustainable
BTW: looking at their forthcoming events there's just one thing in Jan and one in Feb...doesn't sound too sustainable
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
I think it's pretty good. Have been to 3 things there (1 live band, 1 club night and another event I DJed at
), and the sound quality was pretty good for all of them. Nice size venue too. Probably not the best but I'm just glad it's up and running and the new owners seem to be having a good go of it 
ska invita
back on the other side
Pic looks good, but just to be grumpy a minute, the sound in the old fridge was in the round, you had big cabs in a circle under where the balcony starts - its sounded brilliant - seems like thats gone to make the floor space bigger, and those boxes on either side of the stage don't look too exciting or up to the size of the room. Anyhow, there's only one way to really find out... looking forward to going to something in 2012
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
yeah, it looks like it's been set up for bands rather than DJs - with all the action at the front on the stage, rather than having a round dancefloor with sound coming from all around....
I dont imagine it's still the same rig, despite the fact there was a fairly new rig put in there not long before it closed....
I dont imagine it's still the same rig, despite the fact there was a fairly new rig put in there not long before it closed....
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
I overheard on the bus that the council asked them to take down the big speaker cab drapes, is this true ?
Does look a bit drab now and the events board always seems blank.
Does look a bit drab now and the events board always seems blank.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
they got damaged in the wind and then taken down shortly afterwards
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
There was an article in the SLP a while back that was reporting on a 'tweet' made by Steve Reed-
http://mobile.twitter.com/cllrstevereed/status/126686466096119808
I can't find the actual story though.
They definitely got damaged in the wind though, as the Hatter says.
http://mobile.twitter.com/cllrstevereed/status/126686466096119808
I can't find the actual story though.
They definitely got damaged in the wind though, as the Hatter says.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
So basically Lambeth doesn't follow planning law, it just operates on the personal whim of Steve Reed. I notice he never complained about the various illegal advertisements put up on the Prince of Wales and on top of Iceland over the past few years.
Not to metion the dodgy sign on CHL opposite Ed's place and the awful facade on Living/that short lived butchers.
Given their failures over the Tesco fiasco and the market situation, it does seem rather muppety to ask planning to intervene over a well designed facade. Maybe he's trying to get it turned into a supermarket. I gather they've allowed the Duke of Welly on Acre Lane to be flattened as well
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