The Foundry, Hoxton = wanker city central

[Brainaddict]

Nah, chico's just as precious about whom he hangs out with as the Hoxtonite wankers he professes to despise, and fails to realise that his very criticism also marks him as being 'up himself'...

Nail on the head

But oh god, the poetry. never go when they're doing poetry/

This is very sound advice


Foundry is better during the week in general - like the whole of shoreditch.

 

[CharlieAddict]

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.

lol!
we were on the 3rd floor - whiston road.
we were unemployed graduates - skint - same ole story.
3 of us shared a room that the police raided on a regular basis (dodgy landlord).
we were there to raise enough for a deposit for a proper pad.
it smelt of wet dogs, tobacco and plastic.
a woman was knifed outside our block one night.
we heard her screams...

i also remember the corner store owned by some chinese migrants.
the shop keeper was old and had an arranged marriage with this pretty young woman, at least 10 years his junior. i use to go in there on a daily basis. gee, she was so bored, alone and sad.

that is my memory of haggerston and i will never ever go back there.

 

[chico enrico]

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...

fair enough and agreed, took your comment the wrong way earlier. normally i'd do the same, but i think every single person me or my friends spoke to on saturday (to ask for a light, ask if we could sit down on vacant chairs etc) responded with some wanky comment that just made you want to slap their indolent face and tell them just to be fucking sociable and friendly if it isn't too much of a risk to their 'coolness'.

 

[chico enrico]

Foundry is better during the week in general - like the whole of shoreditch.

yes. at the weekend shoreditch is just like leicester square now. only with worse clothes and haircuts. not somewhere you really want to hang out if you have an alternative.

 

[Griff]

fair enough and agreed, took your comment the wrong way earlier. normally i'd do the same, but i think every single person me or my friends spoke to on saturday (to ask for a light, ask if we could sit down on vacant chairs etc) responded with some wanky comment that just made you want to slap their indolent face and tell them just to be fucking sociable and friendly if it isn't too much of a risk to their 'coolness'.

What sort of wanky comments did they come out with when you asked for a light or asked if seats were vacant?

 

[CharlieAddict]

yes. at the weekend shoreditch is just like leicester square now. only with worse clothes and haircuts. not somewhere you really want to hang out if you have an alternative.

i find most of east london like that.
we went to kingsland road - a supposedly 'electro punk' place.
it sucked serious ass.

too pretentious.

 

[Treacle Toes]

that is my memory of haggerston and i will never ever go back there.

Never mind Charlie, i'm still here in Haggerston, keeping it real like.

 

[Citizen66]

i find most of east london like that.
we went to kingsland road - a supposedly 'electro punk' place.
it sucked serious ass.

too pretentious.

All the old Hoxton peeps shuffled off to Kingsland Road a few years ago when the City and Essex boys arrived.

 

[zenie]

fair enough and agreed, took your comment the wrong way earlier. normally i'd do the same, but i think every single person me or my friends spoke to on saturday (to ask for a light, ask if we could sit down on vacant chairs etc) responded with some wanky comment that just made you want to slap their indolent face and tell them just to be fucking sociable and friendly if it isn't too much of a risk to their 'coolness'.

Are you old?

 

[dweller]

that general squat/anarcho/noise subculture

this lot can be right up themselves too in my experience

 

[teuchter]

fair enough and agreed, took your comment the wrong way earlier. normally i'd do the same, but i think every single person me or my friends spoke to on saturday (to ask for a light, ask if we could sit down on vacant chairs etc) responded with some wanky comment that just made you want to slap their indolent face and tell them just to be fucking sociable and friendly if it isn't too much of a risk to their 'coolness'.

They probably went home and wrote indignant posts on bulleting boards complaining about how the Foundry is full of general squat/anarcho/noise subculture types these days who reckon they're cooler than everyone else.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

The Foundry is one of the few places I'll know I'll bump into people. It's inclusive, being able to sip tinnies outside is one reason and whatever is going on it's free.

Myself and friends will entertaining these 'wankers' on 22nd Nov Vinyl Pleasures

 

[El Jefe]

Sorry to state the obvious, but surely it depends what night is on?

 

[paolo]

Went there for the first time a few weeks back. Seemed ok to me; pleasantly random mix of people. I know I've been to far worse places in the area.

 

[zenie]

You're right on the smelling thing though, fuck knows what's going on with their plumbing it wasn't always this bad.....

 

[marty21]

been there a few times over the years, s'alright


i don't think i'm a trust fund wanker

 

[El Jefe]

been there a few times over the years, s'alright


i don't think i'm a trust fund wanker

Everything but the trust fund...

 

[marty21]

Everything but the trust fund...

jeff is a meanie

 

[RubyToogood]

I've done a gig in the room with the turntable thing in. It's a leeeetle bit of a nightmare when the audience are spinning wildly, pint glasses flying, inches away from your precious instruments. Took me by surprise during the first number, that did...

 

[han]

I quite like the Foundry....well, it's good when everyone from Critical Mass goes there for a bevvie. We all stand outside though cos it's too busy inside. Has it still got all those mutilated dolls hanging from the ceiling? I liked that.

 

[Citizen66]

Sorry to state the obvious, but surely it depends what night is on?

Well that's the crux of the matter really. Almost.

Although I understand how excruciatingly bad parts of Old Street can be for some folk and how it's an easy target, people ought to be cautious about laying the universal stereotypes on in thick dollops.

Loads of people drink around there from time to time from varying aspects of the 'cool' spectrum.

Chico drank there recently too. If not, why would he now have the gripes that he does?

 

[hipipol]

I am as cool

as yer Grandma dropping her kecks fer a laff, but I quite like it for people watching
Used to work opposite in the old fire station, am now in the bowels of the tunnel in Barbican, but it still is a well funny place

Its true that a large number of the punters there are totally contrived but its a fucking ace place to laff at peeps - plus they dont seem to mind you doing it, so its nowhere near as up its arse as many in the "Twat-Triangle"

 

[ohmyliver]

I like the foundry as well. Cheaper drinks, organic beers/lagers, poetry (yes, I know mostly excruciatingly bad, but sometimes hilarious (like Wormladys stuff), less idiots than most of the places along old street, sometimes good art/sometimes terrible art, interesting music, etc, and added to that it's one of a kind.

 

[chico enrico]

Well that's the crux of the matter really. Almost.

Although I understand how excruciatingly bad parts of Old Street can be for some folk and how it's an easy target, people ought to be cautious about laying the universal stereotypes on in thick dollops.

Loads of people drink around there from time to time from varying aspects of the 'cool' spectrum.

Chico drank there recently too. If not, why would he now have the gripes that he does?

I drink there all the time, at least two times a week. But won't be going back to The Foundry in a hurry until their clientele lose some of their attitute, just as i wouldn't want to go back to the OBL or MacBeth cos they're full of folk who are up themselves too.

Just didnt think the Foundry would be as bad - if not worse - than many of the other places around there.

 

[kyser_soze]

What's the Barley Mow like nowadays? I used to like it in there...

 

[5t3IIa]

Friend of mine won't drink in 'suits pubs' despite wearing a suit and working in a bank. He thinks he's better than everyone because he's a vegan crypto-fascist.

 

[g force]

What's the Barley Mow like nowadays? I used to like it in there...

A bit "meh" - it's okay but nothing special.

 

[rennie]

Friend of mine won't drink in 'suits pubs' despite wearing a suit and working in a bank. He thinks he's better than everyone because he's a vegan crypto-fascist.

Don't you just love people like that?

 

[Andy the Don]

Every time I go there I have a shit time. went there on saturday with some old friends from anarcho-punk days who had been told (evidently, they said later by someone who was playing a cruel practical joke) that it had a 'good vibe'.

If you choose a pub just because some one says it has a good vibe, whatever the fuck that means, you are asking for a shit evening. Now had they said that it serves a good pint, decent clientèle, sky sports on the telly, friendly atmosphere, they a good are reasons for choosing a pub.

 

[chico enrico]

Friend of mine won't drink in 'suits pubs' despite wearing a suit and working in a bank. He thinks he's better than everyone because he's a vegan crypto-fascist.

strange 'friend' to have.