BUMP! Supposedly the Hoot is in a little trouble:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/hootananny/
The Petition
Licensing Restrictions are stopping entry into Hootananny after 11pm.
We will be shut down if we allow anyone in after this time.
We are campaigning to change this, but in the meantime please get here before 11pm!!!
Please sign this online petition to reverse this decision and get our 2am final entrance time back.
Bar staff were extremely tight lipped on the issue when I was in last night. I asked every single person working and none of them would tell me. (I think they know.) Most of the locals were talking about noise issues....the pub has been having an ongoing battle with residents on Brixton Water Lane about noise late at night. Some of you might remember one of them came on here a while back and caused a shitstorm complaining about noise. But if that was the case, the licence conditions would tell them to close the garden completely after a certain time (like the Duke of Ed) or install a new limiter on the soundsystem inside.Sounds rough. What was the reason?
Exactly this. I'll need some more info before signing the petition....but it's a bit hard to sign something when you don't know what the reason is.
I can believe that... It looks fun whenever you past, but we are glad we live further down. (Or, um, up...). There were people sat on walls (or pissing on them/puking over them) quite a way down the lane and on Tulse hill the other night- and pretty loud music.I heard a bit, but only second hand. It seems that the locals are thoroughly pissed off with the growing noise - both from the music and shouty pissed punters - and all the other associated activity that's been going on around the pub - including ad hoc food sellers. Not sure how much of that is true, but that's what I heard from a fairly informed source.
it seems to be much busier now that it used to be though- and loads of food stalls both in the garden and starting to spill down the street- a few weeks ago there was a jerk chicken place halfway down the road in someone's front garden, too.Oddly when we lived right by it (just by Khans) it never bothered us at all, even with single glazing.
I don't think it's the management being unable to cope - it's the management not actually giving a fuck about the pub. From what I can see, all she cares about is getting loads of punters through the doors late at night. She's rarely shown any gratitude towards the regulars and daily drinkers who've been drinking there for years and years - and even banned some of the ones she didn't like for a while. The toilets are often a complete state - the mens was a couple of inches deep in water for a time over the summer, but it took them over two weeks to bother to fix it. Prices have gone up and up. Drinks are often poorly kept with the gas malfunctioning on occasion. Bizarrely, despite all the things that need to be done inside the pub, she's invested in loads of new planters for the garden (?) and a big new sign over the function room door proclaiming their 'best live music pub' award. The bar staff are mainly very young but do their best in difficult circumstances.Looks like the Hoot has been a bit of a victim of its own success and management being unable to cope.
The additional jerk chicken guy has been there nearly every week since the summer - usually in the front garden of the Conservative Club, where that new Antic pub is going to be. I think a bit of competition for the Hob will be good.it seems to be much busier now that it used to be though- and loads of food stalls both in the garden and starting to spill down the street- a few weeks ago there was a jerk chicken place halfway down the road in someone's front garden, too.
The Northerner says it is v good chicken...!The additional jerk chicken guy has been there nearly every week since the summer - usually in the front garden of the Conservative Club, where that new Antic pub is going to be. I think a bit of competition for the Hob will be good.
The additional jerk chicken guy has been there nearly every week since the summer - usually in the front garden of the Conservative Club, where that new Antic pub is going to be. I think a bit of competition for the Hob will be good.
The hob have their own jerk guy in the garden - I think the guy outside is just taking his opportunity. Nothing to suggest he's not legit either.Is he nothing to do with the hob then?!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/hootananny/The Petition
Licensing Restrictions are stopping entry into Hootananny after 11pm.
We will be shut down if we allow anyone in after this time.
We are campaigning to change this, but in the meantime please get here before 11pm!!!
Please sign this online petition to reverse this decision and get our 2am final entrance time back.