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Plan B "gutted by fire"

Have you raised this with the council licensing department? They can impose conditions on the licence etc and shut the place down if they are causing problems for local residents
 
I'll be very happy if Plan B stays closed. They keep the back door open for smokers, which means loud beats echo and reverberate down Stockwell Avenue and into my basement flat.

I noticed this walking back through that alley late at night a week or two ago. You always used to be able to hear it but much louder with the door open.

I used to really like Plan B until about four or five years ago when the general music policy started to veer a little bit too far down the commercial R&B / cheesy house path for my liking. It's still a good place though; the size of it works pretty well - not too big and not too small, and well laid out inside. And the addition of the downstairs bit allowed a bit more variety.

So I hope it comes back to life.

I hope they get rid of the toilet attendants when they re-open. :mad:

This too.
 
On their website, it says the club's only going to be closed for a couple of weeks. So hopefully the place will be back up and running soon. Although the last time I went to Plan B, it was for a burger and chips...:o
 
There was an article about this is yesterday's South London Press - amazingly the bar's security cameras filmed the blaze from start to finish. It started with some cleaning cloths that they had been using to polish the teak DJ booth in preparation for DJ Norman Jay. The fire mainly caused damage to the ceiling - apparently the lights and projector above the stage melted and a disco ball exploded. The owner said he was annoyed and upset but is looking to refurbish it and reopen in 3-4 months.

Cloths that had been used to apply linseed oil and had spontaneously combusted :eek:
 
Are you saying the Wimpy burnt down? 5 days ago? Where am I going to get a Knickerbocker Glory in Brixton?
 
Are you saying the Wimpy burnt down? 5 days ago? Where am I going to get a Knickerbocker Glory in Brixton?

They should never have tried to compete with those flame-grilled Burger King affairs.
 
yes, me too. though it's not as laughable as jamm having toilet attendants.

I don't know why clubs and bars think this is a good idea. I can wipe my own arse thank you very much. I also don't need to share my bodily functions with a sodding poor immigrant offering me Chupa Chups for a quid. It's not a service but a nuisance. And it's degrading. *rant over*. :mad:
 
I don't know why clubs and bars think this is a good idea. I can wipe my own arse thank you very much. I also don't need to share my bodily functions with a sodding poor immigrant offering me Chupa Chups for a quid. It's not a service but a nuisance. And it's degrading. *rant over*. :mad:

Especially as every time you go for a piss (which can be quite a lot if you are drinking), you feel obliged to give a quid each time, otherwise you feel a right tight arse and the other toilet users look down at you.
 
Cloths that had been used to apply linseed oil and had spontaneously combusted :eek:

:eek::eek:

There was a warning printed a bottle of teak oil I was using last week to this effect and I remember thinking "that's got to be exaggeration"
 
Especially as every time you go for a piss (which can be quite a lot if you are drinking), you feel obliged to give a quid each time, otherwise you feel a right tight arse and the other toilet users look down at you.

a quid every time :eek:

no wonder people give me those disdainful looks
 
Especially as every time you go for a piss (which can be quite a lot if you are drinking), you feel obliged to give a quid each time, otherwise you feel a right tight arse and the other toilet users look down at you.
i certainly don't feel obliged, and the other toilet users don't seem to either. mind you, it's generally fairly down market places that I've encountered toilet attendants, so we're all tight arses :D
 
Have you raised this with the council licensing department? They can impose conditions on the licence etc and shut the place down if they are causing problems for local residents

Well I wouldn't want it to be shut down [necessarily]. I need to complain to the management first. I can't really imagine the management taking much notice though. As a matter of interest, what does Brixton Academy do with their smokers?

I'm very bad at getting round to complaining. I still need to complain to Fitness First about their cleaning staff just chucking bags of rubbish out of their back door (without even bothering to open the door properly and look where they were chucking it). Bag nearly hit me, hit the ground and promptly burst all over Stockwell Ave. I asked the cleaner to please not do that. He shrugged and called me a cunt.
 
The academy sends you into a roped off area by the entrance, where bouncers keep a watchful eye. There's no 'back door'
 
Plan B is hoping to be ready to reopen any day now - lots of work been done. The smoke damage was really very extensive. They appear to have stripped the place out and started from scratch.

23/10 PLAN B LAUNCH PARTY - they still have a lot to do!

http://www.plan-brixton.co.uk/
 
it was supposed to open last night at 9pm but when i walked past at 4pm it was still a complete building site with crap everywhere. i wonder whether they did it in time? couldn't have been nice drinking in a place that stinks of fresh paint!
 
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