Half Moon Herne Hill reopening

[Rushy]

This is why we need to forget about all this craft beer nonsense and get back to proper British bitter at 4% max.

I learnt this week that the phrase “1 over the 8” comes from the idea that your average drinker should be able to manage 8 pints. Not at 6% they can’t.

What exactly do you think they mean by "manage"?

 

[Winot]

What exactly do you think they mean by "manage"?

Probably means that you end up being as competent at basic tasks as your average manager.

 

[friendofdorothy]

session beer should be about 3% in my opinion. I think they are misusing the word session here

 

[Winot]

session beer should be about 3% in my opinion. I think they are misusing the word session here

Ideally, but very hard to get it that low. Kernel Table Beer is the closest I’ve found.

 

[friendofdorothy]

yes its very hard to find anything other than stronger, overpriced IPA/ pale ale/ golden ales these days.

I'm a (very) bitter woman.

 

[editor]

This is why we need to forget about all this craft beer nonsense and get back to proper British bitter at 4% max.

I learnt this week that the phrase “1 over the 8” comes from the idea that your average drinker should be able to manage 8 pints. Not at 6% they can’t.

If I'm DJing I need to get on the session beers because over a 4-5 hour session I can get through a lot of the stuff, even if I'm drinking slowly.

Most of the venues I play at don't have decent beer, so I go for 'session' strength over taste and wolf down Amstel/Carling (which is actually only 3.7% according to this) or Fosters. I know the purists will disapprove but I REALLY appreciate the difference next day.

 

[T & P]

I'm all for low/medium strength beers being available everywhere. It allows one the option to have a beer safe in the knowledge they can go on and drive both safely and legally.

 

[editor]

Such a shame there's fuck all regular live music happening there now. Their events page only has one solitary item listed, and that's for a performance of Shakespeare in the garden for over £17 in August.

 

[Rushy]

I like the fact that the pubs are pretty straight forward pubs in Herne Hill, especially on the weekend. It's nice and relaxed. Live music at off the cuff when you fancy. And Brixton, where most pubs are now packed venues of some sort, is 5 minutes away.

There was a performance of Under Milkwood for Dylan Day in the Half Moon last week (which I missed, unfortunately).

 

[snowy_again]

They do twee jazz in the shed in the garden too - free as far as I remember. Shame it's still badly managed.

 

[editor]

They do twee jazz in the shed in the garden too - free as far as I remember. Shame it's still badly managed.

It seems finely tuned for the middle class clientele/yummy mummies that they seem to want to attract. Shame. It used to be a good pub and a valuable place for local musicians to play and watch up and coming bands.

I'm pretty much over twee jazz as it's bloody everywhere. Still, you'd think they'd at least bother to advertise it.

 

[snowy_again]

Well it was hardly a decent music venue in the last 15 years until the penultimate landlord started putting nights on again in the back room - and then the Herne Hill floods happened. I'd put on some events there - and was never made that welcome despite their bar % deal which they did very well on! It has a pedigree though, i'll give you that.

 

[editor]

Well it was hardly a decent music venue in the last 15 years until the penultimate landlord started putting nights on again in the back room - and then the Herne Hill floods happened. I'd put on some events there - and was never made that welcome despite their bar % deal which they did very well on! It has a pedigree though, i'll give you that.

It's a bit frustrating as the place still seemed to have a fair bit of potential as a decent live venue - even if they'd scaled it back a bit. That said, the staff and security were really fucking rude when I played there last.

 

[friendofdorothy]

They do twee jazz in the shed in the garden too - free as far as I remember. Shame it's still badly managed.

twee jazz, when does that happen? I thought the garden shed was the creche.

 

[editor]

Anyone know who is running this twitter account? He seems very keen to suggest he's representing lots of people (and the campaign) but goes all coy when people ask for details....

 

[snowy_again]

That reads like Peter who runs the Save FB page, but multiple people seem to post from it.

 

[alex_]

Anyone know who is running this twitter account? He seems very keen to suggest he's representing lots of people (and the campaign) but goes all coy when people ask for details....

More likely that as a local “influencer” he has cheap vip and a load of free drinks tokens.

Alex

 

[editor]

That reads like Peter who runs the Save FB page, but multiple people seem to post from it.

It's a real shame that he's using that campaign group to forward his own personal agenda, and giving the impression that he is speaking for all those who were involved in saving the Half Moon.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

It's a real shame that he's using that campaign group to forward his own personal agenda, and giving the impression that he is speaking for all those who were involved in saving the Half Moon.

Yes to be honest I've found that group starting to get a little annoying on Facebook. It's gone past it's remit really hasn't it.

Obviously I should get around to leaving it!

 

[editor]

From nightly rock gigs to a £50 a head 'West End Cabaret & Dinner' night...

The Half Moon - Fuller's Pub and Restaurant London

 

[editor]

Looks like this is going ahead with talking to any of the people involved

Still Barred
By John Mitchinson (editor)

Stories inspired by the notorious barred list from the Half Moon in Herne Hill

This London pub's "banned" list is like a list of the drunk Avengers. - GQ

You need to read this in full, slowly, it’s like reading the cast list for the most British gangster movie ever made. Imagine each character as you go. Play the movie in your head. - The Poke

On 9th April 2016, a list of barred customers from the Half Moon pub in Herne Hill appeared on Twitter. The list of twenty-three names, originally compiled by a member of staff, had a strange poetry to it. Adam the Deaf Guy, Mickey Two Suits, The Ginger Drunk Twat called Angus, That Blonde Bitch, One Armed Kieth [sic] – it felt like a collection of all the best pub characters you’d ever encountered. It quickly went viral, and was tweeted and shared all over the world.

A week later, Unbound’s publisher, John Mitchinson, announced on Twitter that he wanted to publish a collection of stories based on the list and asked for volunteers. Twitter went into overdrive and three hours later the Unbound team had commissioned 24 pieces.

Some of the contributing writers are well known; others are less well known. What unites them is that they were all on Twitter that Friday afternoon, and they were all inspired by one remarkable sheet of paper. Surely this must be a first: a whole book commissioned in an afternoon?

And now you can help make the book become a reality and get your name in the back. It will contain 25 stories, each one inspired by the names on the list. The collection will be introduced by Rumer, the singer songwriter and regular at the Half Moon, who first shared the list and inadvertently provoked a sensation.

Here’s the full cast list of the barred and the writers who will be re-inventing them:

Jason Marie Phillips

Fat Paul Matthew Sweet

Gus & his mate Mark Lissa Evans

Staring Pervert Stuart Evers

Crazy Linda Cathy Rentzenbrink

South African Cadging Scammer Andy Miller

Aurora Tiffany Murray

Short Young Balding Usually Nice Bloke with Beard Nikesh Shukla

Julia Tant Anna James

Flat Cap Coke Fiend Paul Bassett Davies

One Armed Kieth Matthew Adams

Tall Chavvy Fighting Idiot of Old Sarah Franklin

The Ex Con Chav Twat C.M. Taylor

The Glaswegian Nicholas Royle

Mickey Two Suits Rich Lennon

Shaun, Still Barred Jennifer Harvey

Adam the Deaf Guy Niall Slater

That Blonde Bitch Emma Townsend

Danny Miller/Danny Partridge Simon Wroe

Vitriolic Queen Anne Miller

The Ginger Drunk Twat called Angus Ed Davey

Rob Roe Rachael De Moravia

Miller Kit Eaton

The Landlord Lloyd Shepherd

The Pub Jason Hazeley


The Half Moon in Herne Hill is a classic English pub, once a favourite haunt of the writers John Ruskin and Dylan Thomas. First recorded as a tavern in the 17th century, its current building dates from 1896 when it re-opened as a hotel. For the past forty years it has served as one of London’s key pub rock venues. During the seventies, it hosted performances by Dr Feelgood, Eddie & the Hot Rods and Van Morrison and it has become famous as the place where Chris Blackwell of Island Records first heard U2. More recently La Roux, Turin Brakes, Kate Tempest and Rumer have all performed here, along with comedians like Eddie Izzard and Jo Brand.

The Half Moon is a proper local boozer, with proper regulars and now the world’s most evocative list of barred punters. It was closed in 2013 due to severe flooding but has been acquired by Fullers and is due to open again in late summer 2016.

Guess where we’ll be having the launch party for the book?

Still Barred

 

[blameless77]

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Still Barred

Update: apparently not.

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

I have barred myself from the Half Moon on account it being owned by Fullers and the cheapest pint of lager will therefore be about £5.20.

 

[friendofdorothy]

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Still Barred

that must be a piss take?

I pop in there occasionally for a change, thought obvisously its not the same as it was, its all very Dulwich in there now. All the pubs round here are expensive anyway.

I know loads of the people on the barred list, but don't think any of them drink there now.