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Saturday 18th Jan - TONIGHT! - Duckie, Vauxhall, 'The Smiths is Dead'

Ganesh

23:54 / 17.01.03

Anyone fancy it? Despite having lived in close proximity to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern for some three months - and been told 'you'd really like it' on more than one occasion - we've never yet tried Duckie, Amy Lame's weekly 'post-gay' club night and "one of the few genuinely anarchic experiences on the gay scene".

Having scanned 'QX', I see that this week's them is 'The Smiths is Dead' - "with a performance by Nathan Evans". I have absolutely no idea whether this denotes a Smiths-themed playlist or a resolutely un-Smiths evening (on the grounds that they're - allegedly - dead) but I'd quite like to find out.

Anyone else up for this? Depending when I get back from work tomorrow/tonight, we may be able to host drinkies chez Ganesh & Xoc beforehand...

Sax

19:30 / 18.01.03

Damn. Your topic abstract just ruined my gag.

See kids, this is why you should always fill in the summary box.

pointless and uncalled for

10:38 / 19.01.03

"post-gay"?

Is that anything along the line of post-modern and if so can I expect to be confused by a poga abbreviation for months before someone enlightens me?

On a less rotty thingmy, did you go and what was it like?

Bill Posters

12:15 / 19.01.03

Bolox, seeing as 'twas on my way home I'd have dropped by, had I seen this thread in time.

Goodness Gracious Meme

12:27 / 19.01.03

was grand - haven't been to duckie in years, but remembered why i love it so...

its a black dirtbox queer pub/cabaret thingy... last night decorated with large portraits of la moz and a skeleton dashingly waving it's gladioli... we missed the performance but caught the trivia quiz, along wityh appalling Moz karaoke.... Under the whip-cracking direction of Cherielabombe-alike, Amy Lame. *swoon*

no attitude, just lots of dancing and drinking smoking and talking and laughing..

music: aside from lashings and lashings (geddit?) of smiths: peaches, lots of electro/disco fabulousness.... oh can't remember but all good dancing material...

oh and while we were waiting to get in, one the promoters came out and gave everyone in the cue beer.... and apoloogised to us for having to wait...bless

pointless and uncalled for

14:51 / 19.01.03

How hard it is to reconcile my eternal dislike of any product of Moz with a free beer bought to me by a promotional flunky. I suspect that if I had know I would have come.

Bear

10:35 / 20.01.03

Was it open, I walked past and it looked closed. Guess that's the problem with pubs with no windows its hard to tell!

Reckon a Vauxhall meet is required though at some point.

Ganesh

11:16 / 20.01.03

Depends when you walked past: between 9pm and 2am it was very much open (and he-e-eaving with revellers) but perhaps less than straightforward to get into...

Bill Posters

11:28 / 20.01.03

Ignore him Bear, this is how it works: only truly queer people can see it's open. To str8's, it looks deserted and boarded up. It's kinda like The Leaky Cauldron pub in Harry Potter tales...

Bear

12:00 / 20.01.03

Hehe I understand now, so if I'd walked up to the closed door I could have probably put my hand through to the other side?

I ended up in a pub just down the road from the Tavern, it was a special night for people who like larger men - why wasn't I informed of these nights?

Bill Posters

12:20 / 20.01.03

I'm sorry Bear, that is a travesty of justice if ever there was one. On a related note, is there a club night specifically for kooky women who like tall skinny and ever-so-slightly girly boyz? Please advise...

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:51 / 20.01.03

Um....Barbelith?

Goodness Gracious Meme

You had to ask?

Ganesh

Ahhh, that 'larger men' pub would've been Dukes...

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