littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I remember when the Foundry was described as Old Street.
The Foundry, Hoxton = wanker city central
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bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Yeah, I like the foundry. admittedly i haven't been to it in a couple of years, but i always found it one of the areas least pretentious twat-dest. Like someone said, the OBL knocks it into a hat.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
But oh god, the poetry. never go when they're doing poetry/
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
I assumed it was the same - is it a different place? Is there another foundry, or are we still talking about the one straddling the Y shaped junction?
lol
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Yeah, but for slagging-off purposes, it's in Hoxton.
And, yes, the poetry. Hmmm. My mate Ted read there once, though, and he was good.
i think the point was that that area didn't used to be described as "hoxton", it was only when it got trendy that it started being called that, real hoxton is all north of hoxton square. i could be worng though
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
just don't like associating with wankers mate. if you're lumping yourself in with them that's your business. I admire your candour.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
I haven't been out in Hoxton for eons, and was never part of the 'arty' set around there, altho I know/knew quite a few people who work in photography etc.
Nah, my point was that IME people who get as uptight as you have about up themselves wankers are usually up themselves wankers as well, since they're the only people who actually give a shit about this kind of thing...
Nah, my point was that IME people who get as uptight as you have about up themselves wankers are usually up themselves wankers as well, since they're the only people who actually give a shit about this kind of thing...
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
yes. what is really hoxton proper is basically north of hoxton square, up hoxton st towards de beauvoir etc. used to be well mental with absolutely fuck all there. real 'white man's land'. used to stay with a mate who had a flat there in early 80s.
i'd say shoreditch is more of a post-1998 estate agents term than hoxton though. before late 90s it was all just regarded as 'old st'. and a dump.
when i first moved to london and started working there there was only 333 and charlie wrights to go to after the pubs shut and only about 3 or 4 boozers you'd drink in anyway.
zenie
>^^<
Well it comes out of a 2 litre bottle rather than draught that's probably why
The Foundry's a great place, I only wish it was south of the river.
I've had some fuckin cracking nights in there and it's the best place to meet pre rave IMO.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
what, would you not 'give a shit' if you had to go for a night out in Beach Blanket babylon or some exclusive knightsbridge pub full of braying yahs that prince harry frequents?
i found the clientele in the Foundry just as cliquey and smug about how cool they are.
something you could say is fairly endemic to the area, but i really wouldn't have expected it in a place which kind of has a vaguely alternative feel to it
(i know 'alternative' is a wanky term, but from the appearance of the place and look of the cliente it's reminiscent of some of the great squat type bars/clubs ive hung out in in berlin, holland, eastern europe etc, which is why i arranged to meet my mates who are from that general squat/anarcho/noise subculture there. they wanted to leave after one drink!)
There's some great pubs in that area. The Griffin is one of my favourites. I don't let the funny hair-cut brigade get to me. Too many coked-up City wankers can spoil it a bit but you don't get as many on a weekend. The bussed-in Essex boys spoil the atmosphere too but they generally stick to the trendier wine bars.
boohoo
No.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
yes. anti child league was good, bar the sound problems. but then i like that sort of abraisive soundcape stuff. i even bought a copy of her cd that was for sale, which is something i dont often do at gigs.
think i missed other acts but that last band with the absurdly posh tall guy doing a kind of extreme noise terror act untop of what sounded like an old masonna analogue set whilst his hooray-henry-with-funny-haircuts mates jumped around was just rubbish after the initial amusement factor wore off.
thought some of the projections were quite good though
NB: it was more the crowd upstairs and standing outside i was meaning in my OP.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Has trendy reached Haggerston yet? I stayed there for a few months in the mid-90s. The long-abandoned playground with man-high weeds summed the place up really.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
used to be a regular in the griffin. haven't been there for years after they sacked a good mate of mine who used to work there. turned a bit smacky a few years ago but really should check it out again. it's probably great again for the simple reason you never seem to hear anyone going on about it.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
i stayed there as well for a while. That's kind of 'the real hoxton' as well, isn't it?
haggerston? the haggerston quarter you mean?
g force
Affects Shatner's Basoon
Quoted for the truth...everywhere you go there's a least a few twats. Clapham seems to have a large concentration...
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Archetypal failed post-war estate. I stayed in a flat in a block by a square. Just off the square was a library that closed down while I was there. There were two shops open in the square, a bookie and an offie. As I said, the adventure playground was long-gone. The block itself was cold, unloved and stank of piss.
oh well there you go then you wouldn't get that in any other place in the area!yes. anti child league was good, bar the sound problems. but then i like that sort of abraisive soundcape stuff. i even bought a copy of her cd that was for sale, which is something i dont often do at gigs.
think i missed other acts but that last band with the absurdly posh tall guy doing a kind of extreme noise terror act untop of what sounded like an old masonna analogue set whilst his hooray-henry-with-funny-haircuts mates jumped around was just rubbish after the initial amusement factor wore off.
thought some of the projections were quite good though
NB: it was more the crowd upstairs and standing outside i was meaning in my OP.
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
i was living there too!
around 97-98. fuckin' shithole.
all i can remember was the kebab shop. the drug abuse clinic. my crack dealing landlord. raids. prostitutes living upstairs. and metropolis down the road.
nowadays, i can't stand that side of london - especially hoxton.
want to kick all those little fuckers in. do my head in.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I was on the ninth floor - the one good thing was the view. Unfortunately my mate whose flat it was suffered chronic vertigo and blacked out all the windows.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Not really - I've been out enough to know that it doesn't matter whether the crowd are braying hoorahs or smelly crusties running a rig they can all be equally snotty and up themselves, so I either ignore them and focus on my own little pod of mates or, for more lulz, spend the whole evening slagging off their fashions...
Sunday afternoons are probably the best time to enjoy a pint there although it can sometimes be a bit quiet.
