madolesance
Well-Known Member
Heard just this weekend that The Hobgoblin is to close and re-open as a chinnese restaurant/ caelidh bar. Is this going to mean the end of another Brixton public house.
Hootananny pub (formerly Hobgoblin)
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Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
That's a shame. 
Hard to believe there's enough demand for a ceilidh bar out there though.
Hard to believe there's enough demand for a ceilidh bar out there though.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
It appears the Lambeth webserver is currently down, but it may be worth looking for a licensing application in the morning.Lambeth website said:
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Not easy doing the Riverdance with a springroll in one hand and yer King prawn balls in the other.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
They have a website already:
Oh... my... God!
Can I claim political asylum with some Welsh Brixtonians
Oh... my... God!
Can I claim political asylum with some Welsh Brixtonians
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
my god!lang rabbie said:They have a website already:
Oh... my... God!
Can I claim political asylum with some Welsh Brixtonians
i 've been to two ceilidhs in the last week, but that was in the Hebrides, and tbh, there aint much else going on out there (except rain. and midges.
). Why on earth do they imagine people are going to want to experience this often enough to make it financially viable? it's not like you can go for a drink with mates regardless - this kind of music is pretty full-on.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
It's an, er, brave venture.
I wonder what made them think "Hey, this formula works in Inverness, it's bound to work in Brixton!"
I wonder what made them think "Hey, this formula works in Inverness, it's bound to work in Brixton!"
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
I have never heard of a ceilidh pub. Not even in Scotland! And a Chinese Restaurant too? How bizarre.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
There are lots of ceilidh bands. However there are not that many ceilidh bands based in London I shouldn't think, not enough to have fresh acts on all the time anyway. What are they going to do, ship them all down from Inverness? Cos that's not going to be cheap! Either that or have the same bands on over and over and over (most of whom won't be Scottish anyway).
The mind just boggles really.
The mind just boggles really.
To think that, back in the early eighties was the young Commie drinker
It amused me that as The George Canning it was named after an Eton and Christchurch educated son of an Irishman who was also a Conservative PM
But then I don't suppose the residents of Canning Town realised they had such a dangerous lefty for their eponymous little domain.
A Ceilidh boozer? with Chinese attachments.
Reckon Jackie Leven will play
http://www.jackieleven.com/
He likes a nosh-up.
It amused me that as The George Canning it was named after an Eton and Christchurch educated son of an Irishman who was also a Conservative PM
But then I don't suppose the residents of Canning Town realised they had such a dangerous lefty for their eponymous little domain.
A Ceilidh boozer? with Chinese attachments.
Reckon Jackie Leven will play
http://www.jackieleven.com/
He likes a nosh-up.
clandestino
no llevar papel
It's just bizarre. I have fond memories of drinking in the Canning, as well as doing a New Year's Eve party there in 2001. In fact, this means that all the pubs I used to drink in in the Nineties - the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Canning/Hobgoblin, George IV, Landor - have been made over or demolished.
Still. At least it's being replaced by something suitably mental. A Scottish/Chinese folk bar - the mind doesn't just boggle, it reels...! We'll have to have an Urban outing.
Still. At least it's being replaced by something suitably mental. A Scottish/Chinese folk bar - the mind doesn't just boggle, it reels...! We'll have to have an Urban outing.
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
This is probably the funniest thing I have read/seen all week! Since the Two Woodcocks shut down the Hobgob is my local so I`m quite interested.
I can`t quite imagine it myself.. but I`ll definitely be giving it a go... last time I danced at a ceilidh it was at a mate`s festival wedding and it was brilliant!
Still though... how very odd!
Can`t believe they`re already selling tshirts for the place?!?!
I can`t quite imagine it myself.. but I`ll definitely be giving it a go... last time I danced at a ceilidh it was at a mate`s festival wedding and it was brilliant!
Still though... how very odd!
Can`t believe they`re already selling tshirts for the place?!?!
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Shocking news.
That used to be my drinking hole from the mid 80s after the White Horse shut. Would go there and then on to Mingles.
That used to be my drinking hole from the mid 80s after the White Horse shut. Would go there and then on to Mingles.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
I'm having trouble believing this isn't just a windup...
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
Actually I am too.... if it wasn:t for the website...
Unless someone has spent a lot of time mocking up that website - which would be genius....
Hootananny
Inverness and.......
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Brixton!!!!
Inverness and.......
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Brixton!!!!
Unless someone has spent a lot of time mocking up that website - which would be genius....
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I'm from Leeds and I usd to go to ceilidhs when I was a kid - they're not that uncommon
I went to University in Wales, they're actually depressingly common. A bit like an unfortunate version of the 'Come on Eileen' section of the local pissed-up disco, only extended for hours and given dubious Celtic schtick.
Needless to say I'm gutted for the pub. I can't see this lasting more than a few months.
Needless to say I'm gutted for the pub. I can't see this lasting more than a few months.
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
I don`t think anyone thinks that ceilidhs are unusual in themselves... it`s the combo of Chinese, Ceilidh and Hobgoblin that`s a bit tough to get my head around...
strung out
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oi! thats my great great great great great great uncle you're talking aboutCalva dosser said:It amused me that as The George Canning it was named after an Eton and Christchurch educated son of an Irishman who was also a Conservative PM
gaijingirl
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tarannau said:I went to University in Wales, they're actually depressingly common.
I also went to University in Wales and didn`t come across any ceilidhs at all.. what with them not being a Welsh thing per se. Were they some kind of studenty piss up cheap beer type thing?
To be fair to this one.. it looks like they have some good bands playing ...gaijingirl said:I also went to University in Wales and didn`t come across any ceilidhs at all.. what with them not being a Welsh thing per se. Were they some kind of studenty piss up cheap beer type thing?
Eh? A twnpath is a Welsh Celidh - very common in West Wales at least. Usual bad dancing, drinking and faux heritage night affairs.
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
tarannau said:
If you mean a twmpath... it`s similar.. but not the same... as I understand it. To be fair I wasn`t way out West though.. and by your reasoning a barn dance is an English ceilidh.. in fact I`m just heading off to a Japanese ceilidh now...
eta... I guess barn dances, ceilidhs, twmpaths etc etc are all similar type affairs..
except this one will be a Chinese ceilidh!
Christ, you should know as well as I do that the the Welsh assimilate anything into ersatz heritage mode given a chance. The whole celtic connection means that 'celidhs' are a common experience in that part of the world, along with other fine and upstanding Welsh events, like Line Dancing and Country & Western. It's the West innit...
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
tarannau said:Christ, you should know as well as I do that the the Welsh assimilate anything into ersatz heritage mode given a chance. The whole celtic connection means that 'celidhs' are a common experience in that part of the world, along with other fine and upstanding Welsh events, like Line Dancing and Country & Western. It's the West innit...
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