The Foundry, Hoxton = wanker city central

[chico enrico]

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.

well, apart from the 'sky sports on telly' which i'd find as appealing as live footage of public stonings from saudi arabia i'd say all the above factors were what anyone would mean by a place having a 'good vibe'.

can't really think what else it could mean really?

 

[5t3IIa]

strange 'friend' to have.

Similar attitude to you really

 

[hipipol]

well, apart from the 'sky sports on telly' which i'd find as appealing as live footage of public stonings from saudi arabia i'd say all the above factors were what anyone would mean by a place having a 'good vibe'.

can't really think what else it could mean really?

Where is the "Live stonings from Saudi" pub of which you speak???

Sounds like a scream!!!

 

[durruti02]

who owns the foundry? always thought it odd that a non squat clothes itself as a squat .. they must be making **** loads of money so they can't claim they can't afford the paint ..

personally i don't like the place nor any of 'shoreditch' but fair play they do though put on quite a bit of interesting stuff and certainly more than other places in that area

 

[durruti02]

Where is the "Live stonings from Saudi" pub of which you speak???

Sounds like a scream!!!

Edgware Road surely?

 

[lights.out.london]

someone who was playing a cruel practical joke) that it had a 'good vibe'.


Fuck The Foundry and all who sail in her

(((chico enrico and anarcho punk mates)))

Wetherspoons next Saturday, I bet?

 

[TopCat]

I was last in there with you Chico!

 

[chico enrico]

I was last in there with you Chico!

haha. but the state you were in I could have told you we were in Browns down the road and you'd have started trying to put £1 coins in Big David's pint pot

 

[chico enrico]

who owns the foundry? always thought it odd that a non squat clothes itself as a squat .. they must be making **** loads of money so they can't claim they can't afford the paint ..

personally i don't like the place nor any of 'shoreditch' but fair play they do though put on quite a bit of interesting stuff and certainly more than other places in that area

Bill Drummond of KLF fame.

Yea, i will agree with your second part. at leat they ARE putting on something different rather thanthe customary 2 finnish st martin's fashion students with a copy of 'that's what i call music vol 14 (1982) and copy of the klaxons LP

 

[art of fact]

i like standing outside and shouting like a shoreditch twat in the summer

 

[rutabowa]

Bill Drummond of KLF fame.

is it really? i wouldn't have thought it was his kind of thing at all

 

[quimcunx]

So are we all agreed? That we like The Foundry as long as chico isn't there?

 

[Sunray]

I wonder when people say shit like that, that somehow the pub has any control over the people that go in the door? The Foundary is certainly doing its best, looking very a like a squatted pub. Its right in Shoreditch? Chico will be booking a beach holiday in Afganistan next.

If you wanted a different crowd then go to Wenlock arms up the road.

 

[kyser_soze]

2 finnish st martin's fashion students

There was a Finnish chick interviewed in Metro yesterday that seems to fit this bill...

 

[hipipol]

i like standing outside and shouting like a shoreditch twat in the summer

Are you the guy who destroys the Beatles songbook with his loud drunken wailing renditions of same every Friday afty near the Foundry in the warmer months?

 

[El Jefe]

Bill Drummond of KLF fame.

not sure that's true, or at least not any more. I know Gimpo has a stake in it

 

[paolo]

So are we all agreed? That we like The Foundry as long as chico isn't there?

It's looking that way

 

[the button]

So are we all agreed? That we like The Foundry as long as chico isn't there?

No. I agree with chico.

 

[paolo]

No. I agree with chico.

Correction then. The Foundry is ok as long as both of you aren't there.

 

[Maggot]

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?

You haven't answered this question Chico.

 

[winjer]

Bill Drummond of KLF fame.

No, and he never has, just regularly has art up in there.

It's owned by Jonathan and Tracey Moberly.

 

[Maggot]

You haven't answered this question Chico.

Still waiting.

 

[Boycey]

Mothers, lock up your hot bike couriers.

can't believe i missed all this. my mother isn't about, someone else may have to lock me up.

 

[Boycey]

but it is often full of shoreditch tossers, fridays are good in there though.

 

[Nixon]

dunno.been to the foundry and it's been shite,but only when shoredicth wanky overspill invades..otherwise i've always had fun.went to a NOIZE night there the other day actually..although i don't visit often.generally am part of the the squatters and punk crew outside it's the only pub in shoreditch (ive been to at least) you can look like a punk without getting dirty looks/shit from wanky types.

 

[liberty]

We all got barred from the Foundry a few years ago which I was told was impossible to do

 

[William of Walworth]

If you wanted a different crowd then go to Wenlock arms up the road.

Ssshh!!!

Don't get chico started on ale drinkers ....

 

[William of Walworth]

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"

I tend to agree with this, and with what durrutti said -- Foundry has plenty of drawbacks (drawtwats!) and it will get well packed at weekends so as folks say avoid it then, but there can be good music and a fair mix of different goings on there at times.

Depends on the night you go, as already said .... and yep almost all other pubs anywhere in the immediate area, bar the Griffin, are far worse.

I like the Foundry's bottled Pitfield ales (do they still serve these -- not been all that recently), reasonable prices too for the area.

 

[winjer]

I like the Foundry's bottled Pitfield ales (do they still serve these -- not been all that recently), reasonable prices too for the area.

Yes. I like how they still manage to mix random noise gigs, poets with stuff like this Reel News Nov 9 Film Show: financial crisis special.

Often on the same night.

 

[Yossarian]

We all got barred from the Foundry a few years ago which I was told was impossible to do

Did that guy even work there?