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The Rest is Noise pub to close

lordnoise said:
Your wrong right. The Railway under Youngs and Bradys was a music free pub and welcomed all Brixtonians who wanted a natter. It became a music pub later and got trashed by unsympathetic owners then by squatters. You cant please everyone in a pub based around music - someones always going to feel alienated. What Brixton needs is a larger version of the Beehive where people can go and talk to one another which is what The Railway was up until some point in the 90s.
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As far back as I can remember there's be bands playing occasionally in the back room. And the squatters didn't 'trash' Brady's - they put in a lot of time cleaning the place up.

It's been trashed now though.

I can't ever remember a time when there wasn't bands playing occasionally in the back room either, but there's still plenty of pubs in Brixton if you can't bear to be 'alienated' by music.
 
RaverDrew said:
Despite not being particularly enamoured with the place in it's present incarnation, I'd much rather see it being used as a slightly pricey yet uber-cool nightspot than a homogeneous high street store.
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I reckon this is the key point here. But of course, this being urban, it's much more fun for people to poke fun at you for slightly misrepresenting the price of a pint of beer you had in there once.
 
Onket said:
I reckon this is the key point here. But of course, this being urban, it's much more fun for people to poke fun at you for slightly misrepresenting the price of a pint of beer you had in there once.
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I press the like button
 
Onket said:
I reckon this is the key point here. But of course, this being urban, it's much more fun for people to poke fun at you for slightly misrepresenting the price of a pint of beer you had in there once.
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I'm more impressed that somehow paolo999 managed at least 6 pints of ~5% lager yesterday evening within 2 hours !!! :eek:

Subtract the time spent walking between the pubs (and also time wasted posting up the respective prices of each lager) and he must have been knocking them back at a rate I've not seen anyone drinking at since the Goose shut down. :D Fair play, I think he would have liked it in there really. ;)
 
RaverDrew said:
I'm more impressed that somehow paolo999 managed at least 6 pints of ~5% lager yesterday evening within 2 hours !!! :eek:
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Naah. 1 lager, 1 cider, 1 bitter. The Prince wasn't at all appealing, the White Horse is my local so I know the prices, and it was 2 mins in the Beehive to check one of their menus.

Also noted...

8Oz Burger & Chips in the Rest is £5.95
6Oz Burger & Chips in the Beehive is £5.10

So the Rest is pretty competitive on food.

Obviously not your cup of tea as a pub, but prices wise it's fairly middling.

The only cheap pint in central Brixton is spoons as far as I can tell. Agree?
 
I was gonna say, you must have had a sore head this morning. :D

Quite impressed with the price of that burger, and tbf both times I dined at The Rest... the food was a bit better than average pub grub. :cool:

You do have to bear in mind though that the Wetherspoons burger meal is accompanied by a free drink. :p
 
RaverDrew said:
I was gonna say, you must have had a sore head this morning. :D

Quite impressed with the price of that burger, and tbf both times I dined at The Rest... the food was a bit better than average pub grub. :cool:

You do have to bear in mind though that the Wetherspoons burger meal is accompanied by a free drink. :p
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Have to admit I didn't spot the free drink deal. I've seen it before in other spoons, but it was 'time limited' - in the E&C one last year, at least.
 
twistedAM said:
I think it's something to do with the sewers in that area. Anyone else remember the bogs in Bradys when it got busy?
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The guys who squatted Brady's had to dig deeeeeep into the sewers to sort it all out. As I recall they photographed their grim mission and posted it up a website somehow.

It was heroic stuff.
 
Good riddance. Its been shit since it changed from being the mighty goose.

it will also allow more lols at hipsters being forced to drink at the beehive pre-gig.
 
lordnoise said:
Your wrong right. The Railway under Youngs and Bradys was a music free pub and welcomed all Brixtonians who wanted a natter. It became a music pub later and got trashed by unsympathetic owners then by squatters. You cant please everyone in a pub based around music - someones always going to feel alienated. What Brixton needs is a larger version of the Beehive where people can go and talk to one another which is what The Railway was up until some point in the 90s.
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I guess you mean no "bacvkground music" when you say music free pub, thursday used to be 7 kevins session day at the railway, surely not a coincidence that it was giro day as well
 
gabi said:
Good riddance. Its been shit since it changed from being the mighty goose.

it will also allow more lols at hipsters being forced to drink at the beehive pre-gig.
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Only scenesters use the phrase hipsters.

How's it going scenester? Catch a movie tonight, before going downtown? ;)
 
Okay.

The Goose was totally rubbish, and not in a good way.


I was chatting with a young'un last night who frequents The Rest Is Noise. Her pal, who works behind the bar, was told by the landlord that the reason they were closing was because said landlord "Doesn't like running a bar, doesn't like the people who go there."

Now I realise that this is a bit friend-of-a-friend, but if it's in any way true, what a wanky thing to say.


Why not just tell 'em the truth?
 
The pub quiz night was a direct lift from Nathan barley, I'll miss it for that singular experience I guess
 
gabi said:
The pub quiz night was a direct lift from Nathan barley, I'll miss it for that singular experience I guess
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Their pub quiz was embarrassingly awful. I went once and that was one time too many.

The rest of the time it was a nice little addition to Brixton's night life with fairly reasonable beer prices and live music for free. It was also a great place for meetings in the day time. I'll miss it.
 
wemakeyousoundb said:
I guess you mean no "bacvkground music" when you say music free pub, thursday used to be 7 kevins session day at the railway, surely not a coincidence that it was giro day as well
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oh the good old days when everyone signed on at the old Dolehouse next to the Laundry:)

So many were signing on "desperately":D seeking work that they put people on to sign once every 2 months. And hey if you forgot that was ok. You just went in next day. Most of the people who worked there didnt care.

None of this "helping" the unfortunate back to work stuff.

Its entirely accurate that the Brixton pubs were full on giro day. Off down the post office to cash it and straight down the pub.

The old Railway wasnt my favourite pub. I used the Albert.

Its one thing u can say about Maggie she didnt harass people who signed on or went on the sick. Not like now. My friend lost his job a while back ( cuts) and got all sorts of "help" --harassment from the SS from the word go. He did find a new job --no thanks to the SS. But the new wave of cuts means he is back to square one.

The present cuts are actually worse the Maggies imo and with this punitive attitude to those who the government ( and bankers) put out of work.
 
story said:
Okay.

The Goose was totally rubbish, and not in a good way.


I was chatting with a young'un last night who frequents The Rest Is Noise. Her pal, who works behind the bar, was told by the landlord that the reason they were closing was because said landlord "Doesn't like running a bar, doesn't like the people who go there."

Now I realise that this is a bit friend-of-a-friend, but if it's in any way true, what a wanky thing to say.


Why not just tell 'em the truth?
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See #51
 
editor said:
Their pub quiz was embarrassingly awful. I went once and that was one time too many.

The rest of the time it was a nice little addition to Brixton's night life with fairly reasonable beer prices and live music for free. It was also a great place for meetings in the day time. I'll miss it.
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I wish someone had taped one of those quiz nights. Would've made for good YouTubing that! Srsly what a nob. As for the place closing I'm a bit meh. Went in a few times and generally found it pleasant enough, but there's something about the space itself that seems not conducive to a great pub. Had some decent ales on tap tho, not too many of those around these parts.
 
twistedAM said:
It seems it was a spat with the landlord and the brewery. Apparently he just didn't want a late night club thing on his block (yep he owns that whole block:eek:) and made a mahossive settlement to terminate the lease. Part of the T&C is that it can't be a pub.

Apparently this argument has been raging between them for ages but the staff were kept in the dark and need to find new jobs in Feb.
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i was there on closing night. it's gonna be a waitrose. i suspected as much too when I read this post
 
£3.65 a pint of pissy Strongbow, £3.85 Guiness & £4.00...yes £4.00 a pint of Star at the Railway (tulse hill)

Fuck em, I'm going back to the Tavern/Hart.....they can keep there new cunty dulwich college customers!
 
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