Queens 'under new management' (archive thread)

[IntoStella]

"Did they beat the drum slowly, did they dah de dah lowly,
Did they dah dee dee dah as they lowered you down.
And did the band play the Last post and chorus.
Dah dee dah dee the 'Flowers of the forest'."

(Sorry, meant to add that to the last post, pardon the pun. )

 

[hatboy]

Originally posted by Justin
The only sense in which the Hobgoblin is real is the sense in which it does not appear to be a hologram.

Too rough for you dear.

I'm not sure the Albert is especially "real". (Whatever the hell that is). Isn't it characterised by white, politically left-leaning 30-somthing Independent readers?

People like us??

 

[Mr Retro]

LMAO @ IS

You can tell if the person singing it is going to know more than a verse if they know the line "and did the fifes play the flowers of the forest.

Other oversung songs battered to death include The Wild Rover, Dublin in the rare ole Times and Spancil Hill.

 

[Anna Key]

Originally posted by hatboy
white

Right

politically left-leaning

Right

30-somthing

Wrong

Independent readers

Wrong

50%

I think the Hob's a horrible place late at night. Repellant music played far too loud. The neighbours should get a noise abatement notice served double-quick pronto.

At least Shaun at the Queen didn't ram his Green Fields of France up his customers' arses (not that many would have noticed had he done so).

 

[LDR]

Originally posted by IntoStella
Including The Green Fields of France -- guaranteed to bring a tear to your nose after a few too many ales.

There can't have been many pubs with that on the jukebox.

That song can bring a lump to my throat even if I'm stone cold sober.

For the record, my local in the Eastend has it on the jukebox too.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Originally posted by Mr Retro
Other oversung songs battered to death include The Wild Rover, Dublin in the rare ole Times and Spancil Hill.

I was once in a pub in Aylesbury where nearly every song on the jukebox was called Rose of something. Given that and the formica tables, it may have been the worst pub I've ever been in.

Oh yes, and when you hear lines like:

I remember Dublin city
In the fine old days

you do tend to comment

1. No you don't
2. they weren't particularly fine.

[It is fine, isn't it? I'm doingntuis from suppressed memory.]

 

[editor]

Originally posted by hatboy
I'm not sure the Albert is especially "real". (

It's a pub.
It sells beer.
It's not cod-Irish.
It's not run by an uber-chain who have inflicted some horrendous theme on it.
Its name doesn't change every few years.
It doesn't have DJs 'spinning' the latest banging 'choons'.
It is friendly. Very friendly.
People chat there.
It is not non-smoking.
It doesn't serve up nouveau cuisine or sell itself as a 'family-orientated experience'.
It has a fiercely protective and loyal clientèle.
People know the landlords.
The Stella tastes fine.

Sure sounds like a 'real' pub to me.

 

[hatboy]

Yeah AK, I thought maybe the Independent wasn't it. I only get TV Quick and Zipper.

I know you love the Albert Mike. I find it a bit too dominated by the crowd I describe (of which you could say I am a part). I still like it in other ways tho. The new landlords have done a great job in making it more individual and bringing in more events.

Don't start on the HOB AK. Love it or hate it it's one of the few down to earth places left with a really varied crowd of, on a good night, DSS ravers and lunatics.

 

[Mr Retro]

Can't remember it either but it's a mawkish lament a guy writes about dublin changing.

It's sung by pissed up North Dubs who'll claim to have been in school with Flann O'Brien and actually were his muse.

 

[EbonyLC]

The Hob has more of a mixture of cultures which is good.
But
me and another Urbanite (I won't name him) got verbally assaulted by total strangers when we were in there last Friday - which has nothing to do with the cultures and more to do with annoying b'stards being allowed in

The Albert doesn't have music blaring loudly so its nice to have a chat in there.
But
it needs more of an eclectic mix of people.

So its hard to say which is best

 

[hatboy]

"it needs more of an eclectic mix of people". Exactly.

"verbally assautled"

By an oxymoron by any chance? Or some other moron?

 

[Brixton Hatter]

only just caught up on this thread

Into stella wrote
"So what can we do??? I am increasinlgy thinking it would be a good idea to produce some sort of concise newsletter about all these developments that people are so pissed off about and distribute it in the areas where these things are happening. Get people talking to each other. Even get people coming on to u75. Put out the message 'You are not alone. You are not powerless.' Try to get more people involved in the consultation process. Do a web version as well, of course. Knowledge is power and all that."


I think this is a really good idea IS. I had a similar idea about a year or so ago when the new Tesco near me on Tulse Hill opened and it pi$$ed me off for a load of reasons. I even did some work on what it's content could be (local issues, planning etc). I suppose I was kind of inspired by the idea of the South London Stress (anyone remember that?)

If you (or anyone else) is seriously interested in this, please PM me cos I'd be quite up for doing it with a little bit of help.

BH

 

[hatboy]

I think I gave my copies of the South London Stress and the Battle for Effra Parade to Mike. Mike - for Brixton history could you please find them and scan them for the site. I may have more SLS as well.

 

[editor]

Originally posted by hatboy
I think I gave my copies of the South London Stress and the Battle for Effra Parade to Mike. Mike - for Brixton history could you please find them and scan them for the site. I may have more SLS as well.

You gave me a copy of the 121 street party invite which I've already scanned in and attached to the 121 article on the site.

The only other thing you gave me was 'Remember Effra Parade' - a 10 page pamphlet which is, in parts unreadable, although one or two of the cartoons might be usable with much photoshoppery.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I've got some copies of the South London Stress somewhere - I'll have a look for them.

 

[IntoStella]

It's bloody quiet in the Brixton Forum today. No posts for hours.

Is everyone on strike or summat??

 

[lang rabbie]

!I think it was just shock that there were so many posters with an unhealthy interest in the Mitford sisters. Bourgeois deviationists

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Originally posted by IntoStella
Is everyone on strike or summat??

Well I hope Brixton library was on strike, which would have inhibited the posting activities of some people...

 

[William of Walworth]

Unusual prolificness on my part ...

Originally posted by lang rabbie
!I think it was just shock that there were so many posters with an unhealthy interest in the Mitford sisters**. Bourgeois deviationists

**Call it an anxiety to disprove unwelcome truths ...

Plus being "on" my second week of "Jury Service++"

++Discharged a little early ...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

So has the Queen's reopened yet? (Just wondering when my local is going to get rid of the Queen's refugees )

 

[Mr Retro]

The Queen re-opens at lunch time today. I'll probably be going for a pint there tonight to see what it's like.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Let's hope the old locals still like it then

 

[Mr Retro]

I had a few pints in the 'new' Queen last night. We were in the corner part. It's been painted, had a few leather couches added which suit the place, and some light coloured tables and chairs which don't. There is a big screen, table footie and a 'retro' games table.

The choice of drinks is terrible. It was very quiet so can't comment on the punters.

All in all though I think it's good and i'd go there for a night now, rather than pitch up at 12.30 when you have no other option.

 

[hatboy]

I've already heard a couple of Irish guys saying that it's not much good anymore. You have to pay for drinks and go home at closing time now. Fucking rubbish.

 

[Mr Retro]

LMAO

When they flashed the lights last night at 10.40 there was a shocked gasp from the punters.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

One of the Irish regulars there told me that new management has already barred them (or rather not let them in!)

 

[hatboy]

So, almost nowhere cheap or free to go and drink on a weekend late night in Brixton now..... and no main political party reflecting the desires of the ordinary voter who'd have voted Labour years ago.

It's part of the same thing. We're all middle-class now? .... Yeah right! Except for the people with nowhere to go and no-one to vote for.

 

[IntoStella]

Originally posted by Minnie_the_Minx
One of the Irish regulars there told me that new management has already barred them (or rather not let them in!)

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

Time for a bunch of us to go round there and loudly demand to know what happened to the jukebox with The Fureys on it.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The Fureys?

Lonely Boatman one of my favs

 

[Anna Key]

Ah, this is the same firm - Antic Ltd - which rents the Dogstar from Robert Harrison. Good community-minded people eh?