The Rest is Noise pub to close

[Nanker Phelge]

There's no place for trendy young people here.

Not until the trendy old people fuck off and make some space for them anyway.

 

[snowy_again]

they're just young people ffs!

One of them still needs to return a bass guitar I lent them.

/cycles off into the grey haired distance on a fixed gear bicycle.

 

[alfajobrob]

You silver haired hipster you

OU etc. don't give the fuck about the young un's, just having a laugh about RaHHH's post....I really doubt any of them would give a shit anyway!

 

[RAAAHH]

 

[alfajobrob]

OU earlier.......or as I imagine him anyway.

 

[Orang Utan]

not quite!

 

[bluestreak]

why are we still talking about this place. it's not the hipsters that were the problem, it's that it was full of cunts, staffed by cunts, and run by a cunt.

 

[bluestreak]

I went down the Grand Union on Acre lane tonight....cunt city....don't ever go.

i resolved never to go when i walked past one day and saw the price of their special offers. WTF!

 

[TruXta]

why are we still talking about this place. it's not the hipsters that were the problem, it's that it was full of cunts, staffed by cunts, and run by a cunt.

The staff were cunts? Admittedly I wasn't in there more than maybe 5 times, but the staff were fine. They did have the world's worst quiz-master, but that's another story.

 

[editor]

The staff were cunts? Admittedly I wasn't in there more than maybe 5 times, but the staff were fine. They did have the world's worst quiz-master, but that's another story.

I always found the staff very friendly, if sometimes a little distracted. I liked the place as a pleasant alternative to Brixton's boozers, and liked the fact that they had no issues with letting a drunk old boy slump in a chair snooze through some groovy band or another.

I've no idea why bluestreak is calling them 'cunts,' although the quizmaster certainly lived up to that description. Twice over.

 

[TruXta]

Someone interview that QM, please, and post it on youtube.

 

[editor]

Someone interview that QM, please, and post it on youtube.

He was such an annoying straight-outta-Hoxton hipster twat that we were reduced to filling in the quiz sheets with random abuse.

 

[TruXta]

And to top it off he was one of the worst QMs technically speaking I've ever come across. And the questions were shite. Worra nob.

 

[twistedAM]

why are we still talking about this place. it's not the hipsters that were the problem, it's that it was full of cunts, staffed by cunts, and run by a cunt.

The staff were fine. Well above average for that kind of place.
Oh and it was run by a sizeable chain by the way. Also own Amersham Arms and Lock tavern in London and loads of places around the country like Nation of Shopkeepers, Star the Bus etc. They opened places promising live music venues but most of them have slipped into DJ only nights as thats where the profit is and that's what RIN declined into. They had some good bands 9and were able to get them cos of their chain and links with some festivals but they let that slip.

 

[editor]

The staff were fine. Well above average for that kind of place.
Oh and it was run by a sizeable chain by the way. Also own Amersham Arms and Lock tavern in London and loads of places around the country like Nation of Shopkeepers, Star the Bus etc. They opened places promising live music venues but most of them have slipped into DJ only nights as thats where the profit is and that's what RIN declined into. They had some good bands 9and were able to get them cos of their chain and links with some festivals but they let that slip.

The sound system and/or some of the sound engineers they employed at the Rest Is Noise were shocking.

 

[twistedAM]

The sound system and/or some of the sound engineers they employed at the Rest Is Noise were shocking.

I'd a mate who was tour managing a band I really liked and they were playing there, supposedly at midnight on Saturday. I rushed down the hill to see them and when i got there they were already finished. I asked the TM why he hadn't texted me to tell me the change in stage time and he said "I'm not having you watch my band in a venue that has one fucking bass bin".

The layout of the stage was all wrong as well.

 

[editor]

I'd a mate who was tour managing a band I really liked and they were playing there, supposedly at midnight on Saturday. I rushed down the hill to see them and when i got there they were already finished. I asked the TM why he hadn't texted me to tell me the change in stage time and he said "I'm not having you watch my band in a venue that has one fucking bass bin".

The layout of the stage was all wrong as well.

I saw 'Let's Wrestle' there and the sound was so unbelievably awful I had to go up to the sound man and tell him to turn the bass players amp down. As a sound man I know how annoying it is when people come up and hassle you, but it wasn't just a little bit loud: it was so deafening loud you actually couldn't hear anything else.