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General Category => On The Road => Topic started by: Vagabondage on August 26, 2015, 09:54:58 PM

Title: Leamington pre gig
Post by: Vagabondage on August 26, 2015, 09:54:58 PM
coming with 2 NMA live virgins and want them to mingle with the family so where are we meeting? I don't know the town at all  ;D
Title: Re: Leamington pre gig
Post by: BlackCountryMaggiD on August 27, 2015, 01:24:33 PM
There's a 'Spoons just along from the venue. Big enough to get a few in so probably in there!




https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Assembly+Rooms,+Spencer+Street,+Leamington+Spa/The+Jug+%26+Jester,+11-13+Bath+Street,+Leamington+Spa+CV31+3AF,+United+Kingdom/@52.2886831,-1.5418598,17z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x48773492e2b1f0f9:0x8e3c4a02cd9367e8!2m2!1d-1.5338575!2d52.2856224!1m5!1m1!1s0x48773492f153ad8d:0x7429d2a591a673c5!2m2!1d-1.5329304!2d52.2857077!3e2
Title: Re: Leamington pre gig
Post by: Amandistan on August 27, 2015, 02:57:08 PM
Friends not family.  :)Families disown and abuse.
Title: Re: Leamington pre gig
Post by: Master Ray on August 27, 2015, 08:09:39 PM
Friends not family.  :)Families disown and abuse.

Understand the sentiment, hun, but perhaps not the time or the place?  :-[
Title: Re: Leamington pre gig
Post by: Vagabondage on August 27, 2015, 08:55:45 PM
Cheers see You in the spoons - Friends & Family
Title: Re: Leamington pre gig
Post by: Master Ray on August 27, 2015, 09:04:30 PM
Anyone here think that Wetherspoons gets a bad reputation?  The beers good (and cheap), there is usually a fine selection of decent (and often unusual) pints, the food is usually tasty and filling... OK, not the most atmospheric of places but what the heck, it's all about the company, eh?   :-\
Title: Re: Leamington pre gig
Post by: Danny on August 27, 2015, 09:25:55 PM
Anyone here think that Wetherspoons gets a bad reputation?  The beers good (and cheap), there is usually a fine selection of decent (and often unusual) pints, the food is usually tasty and filling... OK, not the most atmospheric of places but what the heck, it's all about the company, eh?   :-\

I personally have no problems with Wetherspoons other the fact they're a chain and if possible I'd rather give my money to small independent pubs - as you said, good beer selection, cheap prices and decent enough food (for what you pay anyway, you can't expect gourmet stuff at those prices), if you're a CAMRA member you even get discount vouchers for the ales. Sure, some of them have the ambience of a 1960s shopping centre and seem to be the refuge of all sorts of types of dodgy characters, but others are ok enough for a few pre-gigs, post-football or whatever drinks - and I certainly made much use of them in my younger and poorer days, when the offer of 2 meals for a fiver and cheap beer was often too good to pass on
Title: Re: Leamington pre gig
Post by: BlackCountryMaggiD on August 28, 2015, 07:02:50 PM
Families disown and abuse.
Talky happy happy happy talk.
Title: Re: Leamington pre gig
Post by: L.North on September 28, 2015, 10:48:55 AM
I know Spoons gets a hammering but my local one always has cheap craft beer and the staff are really pleasant. More than you can say for a lot of pubs. I try not to drink before gigs though as i wont remember the last half of the set.  :)
Title: Re: Leamington pre gig
Post by: Pazza on October 06, 2015, 08:00:34 PM
I don't care if I don't remember more than half the gig as long as in the moment it felt amazing
Title: Re: Leamington pre gig
Post by: Pazza on October 13, 2015, 08:04:49 PM
That killed the thread, back to the spoons dialogue
Title: Re: Leamington pre gig
Post by: Master Ray on October 13, 2015, 08:10:55 PM
Didn't kill it all all, Pazza, know exactly what you mean.  That's why I never take any pics / videos on my phone from a gig...

From the brilliant movie 'Lost Highway'...

I like to remember things my own way... how I remembered them. Not necessarily the way they happened...

 ;)