Videodrome in London - Sunday, May 19th.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

18:39 / 27.04.02

Heads up!

Videodrome shall be heading over to London for a week in May - so I figured a meet would be in order. Show him how to drink properly. All that kinda thing. Anyway - here's the plan so far:

A meet.
Sunday, May 19th.
Afternoonish.
Somewhere - though we all know it'll default to the Jorene Celeste with no other alternative. I'd suggest the Daniel Defoe in Stoke Newington, but that's really only because Stoatie, Barry Auckland, SFD and I live within stumbling distance. And I'm a lazy bastard.

So - who's in? Thoughts? Bring it on! Oh, and check out the music meet thread, too...

19:36 / 27.04.02

Hmmm, the JC was pretty busy on the Sunday when we had that last meet there, about half-dozen of us and Barry Auckland as the official 'newer person than Cherry'. But otherwise I'd be up for it.

Shortfatdyke

01:56 / 28.04.02

well, i'm pretty sure i'll be in berlin that weekend so i'm afraid i'm rather out of the picture on this one.

05:26 / 28.04.02

That's a shame, sfd. 'Cause Roth's right - I need to be taught how to drink - and more importantly, stumble - right and proper. Or something. Why else would I go to London?

mondo a-go-go

17:04 / 28.04.02

why do i have a feeling that i'm already busy that weekend?

oh yeah!! saturday night is the fish fry! a bunch of us are going to dance our arses off to northern soul and new orleans funk in a fetish club in kennington. who's with us?

then we can stagger to the pub on the sunday and nurse our sore knees together...

Shortfatdyke

19:58 / 28.04.02

now i know i'm definately away, which is a shame, but i really need to see my friend in germany. rest assured, i will be drinking wheatbeer there in your honour, videodrome.

20:17 / 28.04.02

yay for clubbing shenanigansd and for drinking generally! I will be, as usual up for it

Baz Auckland

20:47 / 28.04.02

Damn. I'll be in Austria from the 15th-23rd or so. Whatcannyado?

Old brown-eye is back

12:02 / 29.04.02

Unless I'm being hugely thick, is aforesaid Saturday Night Fish Fry not on the 11th?

Old brown-eye is back

12:04 / 29.04.02

Hang on.

Old brown-eye is back

12:04 / 29.04.02

Yep, it's the 11th.

mondo a-go-go

14:22 / 29.04.02

bah. ok cleverclogs, so i got it wrong. what do you care since you're coming anyway whichever date it is? :]

anyway, that means that sunday for videodrome will be ok after all. and i'll leave off hijacking the thread for my nefarious purposes bwah-hahaha-hah!

14:40 / 29.04.02

Damn. I had become a little excited at the thought of dragging Roth to the Fish Fry. Ah, well...

Kit-Cat Club

14:47 / 29.04.02

Take him to the chippy instead.

JC is probably OK, though as Misheard Lada says, it was a bit full of happy families last time we were there on a Sunday. Trying to think of somewhere else... there's the Spread Eagle which is passable, the Mac Bar where you can see Graham Coxon playing really badly on Sundays (but is quite pricey), both in horrible Camden, um... I'm stuck now... the Daniel Defoe is fine so long as no one's allergic to dogs...

08:02 / 03.05.02

*bump*

08:49 / 03.05.02

it all depends on the size of the crowd expected... the princess louise was pretty empty that time we hired out the room an its hoborn location means it A) easy to get to and B) More likely to be empty at the weekend thanks to the lack of types from the city

The Strobe

09:17 / 03.05.02

Places-easy-to-get-to-from-Kings-Cross-by-hyper-stressed-exam-students would be helpful. Still can't guarantee I'll get there, but I'll see what I can do.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

10:25 / 03.05.02

the princess louise is at hoborn- two stops from kings cross on the picadilly line...

rizla mission

12:58 / 03.05.02

the Mac Bar where you can see Graham Coxon playing really badly on Sundays (but is quite pricey),

let's go and annoy him!

17:29 / 03.05.02

What about that place we went for Kooky's birthday? Any chance of getting that again or was that a fluke? Admittedly it possibly borders on the difficult to find, but then we've had meetings at the Bluu Bar or whatever it was...
Come to think of it...

that

19:27 / 03.05.02

I can come, although I am never up for boozing (it's not my *fault*, honest). I love dogs though, so a doggy pub would be a bonus.

18:25 / 05.05.02

I'd love to have some actual input in this, but as I don't actually know any of the possible places, I can't see what I can say...

Except that I like dogs. Dogs are funny.

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:05 / 05.05.02

Kooky's party was at the Blue Posts, on the corner of (IIRC) Newman Street and Eastcastle Street. The upstairs was indeed quite cool, but since it is very difficult to predict Barbemeet numbers it may be hard to justify it, and the downstairs is pretty poky...

22:55 / 05.05.02

yeah - as haus alludes to we actually hired that place out for kooky's bash- ... the reason that the JC is so often the default setting is that it is so large that big gatherings can usually be acomodated with ease...

but what do people think of the princess louise?

Jack The Bodiless

13:57 / 07.05.02

Arrr. A good ship. Arrr.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

14:06 / 07.05.02

Avast, bodiless! You be there?

14:33 / 07.05.02

I'm okay with the PL, it's just they don't serve any booze I can actually stomach...

07:57 / 10.05.02

Bump.

Does it look like the PL is the go? How about the Chandos near St Martin's? Not quite evil beer, but the upstairs room is a) usually open and b) kinda empty on weekends and c) not reminiscent of a stable, as downstairs is.

Thoughts?

mondo a-go-go

12:47 / 10.05.02

chandos over the PL. oh yesyesyesyesyes yes! and not just coz it's walking distance from home.

13:45 / 10.05.02

Well, it is near where Shockheaded Peter is on, in case we end up going there that evening... hmmmmmm...

Ariadne

13:50 / 10.05.02

So are you now the official ambassador and tour guide for out-of-town Babelithers, Rothkoid?

14:05 / 10.05.02

Nah. They're both just staying at my house. I am purveyor of futons and dodgy meals to those from mailing-list pasts.

Or something.

So come along. All of you!

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:31 / 10.05.02

The Chandos sells only filthbeer, but should be pretty quiet in the afternoon, and is good for modular seating solutions that adapt to numbers. I'd go for it.