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#1
12-08-2007, 21:16
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Hootananny pub (formerly Hobgoblin)
Heard just this weekend that The Hobgoblin is to close and re-open as a chinnese restaurant/ caelidh bar. Is this going to mean the end of another Brixton public house.
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#4
12-08-2007, 21:38
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That's a shame.
 Hard to believe there's enough demand for a ceilidh bar out there though. 
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#7
12-08-2007, 22:08
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#8
12-08-2007, 22:09
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Not easy doing the Riverdance with a springroll in one hand and yer King prawn balls in the other.
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#9
12-08-2007, 22:26
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They have a website already:
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 Can I claim political asylum with some Welsh Brixtonians 
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#10
12-08-2007, 22:46
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 i 've been to two ceilidhs in the last week, but that was in the Hebrides, and tbh, there aint much else going on out there (except rain. and midges.  ). Why on earth do they imagine people are going to want to experience this often enough to make it financially viable? it's not like you can go for a drink with mates regardless - this kind of music is pretty full-on.
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#11
12-08-2007, 23:04
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It's an, er, brave venture.
I wonder what made them think "Hey, this formula works in Inverness, it's bound to work in Brixton!"
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#12
12-08-2007, 23:06
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I have never heard of a ceilidh pub. Not even in Scotland! And a Chinese Restaurant too? How bizarre.
Last edited by Guineveretoo; 13-08-2007 at 10:33.
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#13
12-08-2007, 23:15
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There are lots of ceilidh bands. However there are not that many ceilidh bands based in London I shouldn't think, not enough to have fresh acts on all the time anyway. What are they going to do, ship them all down from Inverness? Cos that's not going to be cheap! Either that or have the same bands on over and over and over (most of whom won't be Scottish anyway).
The mind just boggles really.
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#15
13-08-2007, 02:39
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To think that, back in the early eighties was the young Commie drinker
It amused me that as The George Canning it was named after an Eton and Christchurch educated son of an Irishman who was also a Conservative PM But then I don't suppose the residents of Canning Town realised they had such a dangerous lefty for their eponymous little domain. A Ceilidh boozer? with Chinese attachments. Reckon Jackie Leven will play http://www.jackieleven.com/ He likes a nosh-up.
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#16
13-08-2007, 06:46
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It's just bizarre. I have fond memories of drinking in the Canning, as well as doing a New Year's Eve party there in 2001. In fact, this means that all the pubs I used to drink in in the Nineties - the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Canning/Hobgoblin, George IV, Landor - have been made over or demolished.
Still. At least it's being replaced by something suitably mental. A Scottish/Chinese folk bar - the mind doesn't just boggle, it reels...! We'll have to have an Urban outing.
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#17
13-08-2007, 07:46
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This is probably the funniest thing I have read/seen all week! Since the Two Woodcocks shut down the Hobgob is my local so I`m quite interested.
I can`t quite imagine it myself.. but I`ll definitely be giving it a go... last time I danced at a ceilidh it was at a mate`s festival wedding and it was brilliant! Still though... how very odd! Can`t believe they`re already selling tshirts for the place?!?!
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#18
13-08-2007, 07:56
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Shocking news.
That used to be my drinking hole from the mid 80s after the White Horse shut. Would go there and then on to Mingles.
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#19
13-08-2007, 07:57
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I'm having trouble believing this isn't just a windup...
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#20
13-08-2007, 08:00
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Actually I am too.... if it wasn:t for the website...
Hootananny Inverness and....... .... .... Brixton!!!! Unless someone has spent a lot of time mocking up that website - which would be genius....
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#22
13-08-2007, 08:22
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I'm from Leeds and I usd to go to ceilidhs when I was a kid - they're not that uncommon
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#23
13-08-2007, 08:32
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I went to University in Wales, they're actually depressingly common. A bit like an unfortunate version of the 'Come on Eileen' section of the local pissed-up disco, only extended for hours and given dubious Celtic schtick.
Needless to say I'm gutted for the pub. I can't see this lasting more than a few months.
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#24
13-08-2007, 08:35
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I don`t think anyone thinks that ceilidhs are unusual in themselves... it`s the combo of Chinese, Ceilidh and Hobgoblin that`s a bit tough to get my head around...
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#25
13-08-2007, 08:37
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