Larry Merrett leaves Brixton for Chelsea!

[Isambard]

Isn't this pub the one with the slippy stairs?

Not from Brixton so sorry for poking my nose in like, but a lot of the new "European cafe culture" bars are going to be wide open, expensive, strictly limited, very corporate and aimed at a certain clientel.

The "good old days" of having fairly cheap pints and a conspirative chat in an after-hours lock in with a friendly local landlord will be at an end.

We've chatted a couple of times about this in the Brizzle & Tractors forum.

 

[IntoStella]

um...no.

There you go (scroll down) A brief history of Harmony/Mingles courtesy of the ed.

my brain has atrophied. i'm convinced of it. yesterday i couldn't remember the words 'moses' and 'cambodia'. i had to sing 'holiday in cambodia' to myself before i could remember the latter.

And A Good Year For the Moses to remember the former?

Oh yeah -- talking about places old punk rockers used to go after hours -- what about the Green Man? Never went there myself but I had mates who did.

 

[clandestino]

ah, railton road. that would explain it. i lived on solon road, off acre lane, back then, so walking over to the landor or the duke of edinburgh was easier.

 

[OldSlapper]

What you do is set up a business-in this case a bar-under two companies.In this case Living Room Leisure and Living Room Trading.You load all your debts onto one company and let it go under then continue to run the bar/business under the remaining company.Its called in business a "Phoenix deal".You re emerge with all your debts wiped away.

One of those business practises that make "entrepreuners" rich.

So im skeptical ,like Hendo, that Larry has left Living room.Other than get somone else to front it.

Here's the Companies House entry for Living Room Leisure Ltd (the Merrett company which ran Living Bar and holds the entertainment license:

Name & Registered Office:
LIVING ROOM LEISURE LTD
193 MARKET STREET
HYDE
CHESHIRE SK14 1HF
Company No. 03995826

Status: Active - Proposal to Strike off
Date of Incorporation: 17/05/2000
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

If whats happening is, indeed, a "Phoenix" trick then Licensing Committee may well find out. Whether they can put a stop to it is another matter. They can certainly ask the obvious questions in a public forum.

But as Gramsci implies, Living Room Leisure Trading Ltd has already liquidated.

 

[IntoStella]

The "good old days" of having fairly cheap pints and a conspirative chat in an after-hours lock in with a friendly local landlord will be at an end.
We've chatted a couple of times about this in the Brizzle & Tractors forum.

Aha, you have loony-lefty old-bore spit-and-sawdust Daily-Mail NIMBY snobs over there too, do you? *Packs bags and buys ticket for Brizzle*

 

[dogmatique]

(Derailing thread horribly...)

"LIVING ROOM LEISURE LTD
193 MARKET STREET
HYDE
CHESHIRE SK14 1HF"

Um... I could be mistaken, but isn't Market Street in Hyde where Dr Harold Shipman had his practice?

 

[Donna Ferentes]

It is

 

[dogmatique]

Cor lummee.

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[Donna Ferentes]

"You couldn't make it up" etc etc etc

 

[lang rabbie]

Guilt by association...

There's another reason for me why it was oddly familiar. The registered address of Living Room Leisure Ltd is the same as that for some very dubious businesses...

Beware of the Conmen

Make sure you do not send money to any other address that claims to be working on behalf of the Data Protection Act. Individuals posing as "collectors on behalf of data protection" are asking businesses for payments for Data Protection Registration. These "collectors" may even produce identification cards and receipt books.

There is no connection between the Information Commissioner and such individuals. If you are approached in this way do not make any payment and you may like to notify the local police. The following lists the companies that have been brought to our attention.

The phony data protection operators [include]:
...
Crown Data Collection Enforcement Agency
193 Market St, Hyde, Cheshire. SK14 1HF
...
Data Protection Agency Services
Hyde House, 193 Market Street, Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 1HF

Organisations who wish to complain about correspondence received from these businesses, should contact their local Trading Standards Office
http://www.billfryer.com/dataprotection/

193 Market Street is the home of a mailing address rental service provided by M.A.O.S (Mail Accommodation Office Services) http://www.mmaos.com/

 

[Maggot]

Why are you derailing this thread, which is about Merrett leaving Brixton, with an irrelevant argument that has in any case been done to death?

I'm not derailing it, I was simply suggesting that not everything Merrett did was bad for Brixton.

The fact of the matter is that the purpose of Brixton's existence has never been to provide weekend amusement for sherbert-snorting Clapham trusties, thwilled with themselves at how "street" they are before they get their taxi home. Do you have some sort of difficulty with that?

I have a lot of difficulty with your 'Brixton is only for Brixtonites' attitude.

A few late places that we used to go to before -- and of course during --Merrett's tenure included the Queen, Brady's/The Railway, the Windmill, the Hob, the Fridge Bar, SW9, The Brixtonian, the Prince of Wales and the Canterbury. A couple of those are fairly Tarquinesque but obviously not enough -- thank god for Lawwence for making Brixton cool and twendy, eh?

Ok there were more late-night places than I recall - I stand corrected - though I think the Fridge Bar opened after the Dog Star.

 

[Streathamite]

Maggot-one thing to remember; under Merrett, the Dogstar, like Living (now renamed 'dying' ) NEVER targeted locals, it was specifically aimed at bourgeois claphamites and weekend-type cultural tourists.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Maggot-one thing to remember; under Merrett, the Dogstar, like Living (now renamed 'dying' ) NEVER targeted locals, it was specifically aimed at bourgeois claphamites and weekend-type cultural tourists.

like non-brixton urbanites you mean?

*ducks*

 

[hipipol]

Suzee Blue Cheese posting as Hipipol:

Couple of bars no one's mentioned. Bruces opposite the Hob and what's now called the Z Bar (I think) unless it's changed name again - haven't been there for years but I used to drop in around 10/11 years ago. Last time I was in Bruces, it was raided and we were all herded upstairs back out into the night - ah, them were the days...

Does no one remember the Duke, before the garden was ruined, when they used to have a monthly night with acts out back. Brilliant.

 

[Maggot]

Maggot-one thing to remember; under Merrett, the Dogstar, like Living (now renamed 'dying' ) NEVER targeted locals, it was specifically aimed at bourgeois claphamites and weekend-type cultural tourists.

How did it do that? and what's everyone got against people from Clapham?

 

[ChrisFilter]

spend an evening on clapham hight st and you'll get the gist.

one of my best mates is a bit braying claphamy, but I loves her.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

There's another reason for me why it was oddly familiar. The registered address of Living Room Leisure Ltd is the same as that for some very dubious businesses...



193 Market Street is the home of a mailing address rental service provided by M.A.O.S (Mail Accommodation Office Services) http://www.mmaos.com/

An address of convenience then. Like Sibneft's address in Cyrpus but without the sun.

 

[Streathamite]

How did it do that? and what's everyone got against people from Clapham?

by turning away local black guys at the door (both places), by making the ambience pure clapham, by intimidation (one guy I know), by flyer distribution at the sort of places his crowd go to.

 

[OldSlapper]

by turning away local black guys at the door (both places), by making the ambience pure clapham, by intimidation (one guy I know), by flyer distribution at the sort of places his crowd go to.

And by breaking licensing and planning law, left right and centre; by wrecking an attractive building - the former Coach & Horses pub - e.g. ripping out the first floor sash windows and replacing them with plastic rubbish; by failing to enforce crowd safety rules and getting prosecuted by the council as a consequence; by pissing off the neighbours with loud music broadcast late at night in order to extract maxiumum cash from their appalling sub-chav customers.

But apart from that the Merrett experiment has been excellent 4 Brixton.

 

[OldSlapper]

There's another reason for me why it was oddly familiar. The registered address of Living Room Leisure Ltd is the same as that for some very dubious businesses...

Beware of the Conmen

Make sure you do not send money to any other address that claims to be working on behalf of the Data Protection Act. Individuals posing as "collectors on behalf of data protection" are asking businesses for payments for Data Protection Registration. These "collectors" may even produce identification cards and receipt books.

There is no connection between the Information Commissioner and such individuals. If you are approached in this way do not make any payment and you may like to notify the local police. The following lists the companies that have been brought to our attention.

The phony data protection operators [include]:
...
Crown Data Collection Enforcement Agency
193 Market St, Hyde, Cheshire. SK14 1HF
...
Data Protection Agency Services
Hyde House, 193 Market Street, Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 1HF

Organisations who wish to complain about correspondence received from these businesses, should contact their local Trading Standards Office
http://www.billfryer.com/dataprotection/

193 Market Street is the home of a mailing address rental service provided by M.A.O.S (Mail Accommodation Office Services) http://www.mmaos.com/

A google on "193 MARKET STREET" HYDE FRAUD spits out seventeen entries. I'm sure it's entirely coincidental, and simply very bad luck, that Living Bar Leisure Ltd shares the address.

 

[Pie 1]

How did it do that? and what's everyone got against people from Clapham?

I hope that was the heavy duty flame proof suit you got, mate

 

[OldSlapper]

How did it do that? and what's everyone got against people from Clapham?

I've nothing against people from Clapham. When we come to shoot them we'll know where to find them.

 

[OldSlapper]

I've nothing against people from Clapham. When we come to shoot them we'll know where to find them.

Except for the wonderful Jonathan Myerson, of course, the talented, erudite and commitedly socialist councillor for Clapham Town.

 

[Streathamite]

And by breaking licensing and planning law, left right and centre; by wrecking an attractive building - the former Coach & Horses pub - e.g. ripping out the first floor sash windows and replacing them with plastic rubbish; by failing to enforce crowd safety rules and getting prosecuted by the council as a consequence; by pissing off the neighbours with loud music broadcast late at night in order to extract maxiumum cash from their appalling sub-chav customers.

But apart from that the Merrett experiment has been excellent 4 Brixton.

was too rushed to post all that (or remember it) so ta for helping me out there. also - his bouncers throwing local black guys thru' the awnings at Living

 

[IntoStella]

I hope that was the heavy duty flame proof suit you got, mate

They should give you your own TV show. You're so hilarious.

 

[IntoStella]

Except for the wonderful Jonathan Myerson, of course, the talented, erudite and commitedly socialist councillor for Clapham Town.

Oh yes. My favourite politician.

I have to say in their defence that the bouncers did operate an equal oportunities policy when it came to throwing people down the stars.

 

[IntoStella]

I'm not derailing it, I was simply suggesting that not everything Merrett did was bad for Brixton.



I have a lot of difficulty with your 'Brixton is only for Brixtonites' attitude.

Ok there were more late-night places than I recall - I stand corrected - though I think the Fridge Bar opened after the Dog Star.

Wrong again. The likes of Living brought in a crowd who would never have previously set foot in Brixton after nightfall, if at all. A hell of a lot of non-Brixton residents previously did go, and always have gone, out in Brixton because they actually really liked the place.

If someone's attitude is 'Lets go to Living bar where we'll be safe from the scawy black people, get a cab home and then bray to all our mates about how street we were going to Brixton', then they can sod off. Simple. If that is what your mates are like, sorry.

 

[OldSlapper]

And wasn't there some story about a woman fainting outside Living Bar (albeit a reasonable reaction to walking past and making the mistake of looking through the window and spotting a Living Bar customer) and the bar staff seeking to charge her £1.50 for a glass of tap water?

 

[IntoStella]

And wasn't there some story about a woman fainting outside Living Bar (albeit a reasonable reaction to walking past and making the mistake of looking through the window and spotting a Living Bar customer) and the bar staff seeking to charge her £1.50 for a glass of tap water?

A 17 year old girl and yes, it's absolutely true.