What's happening at the Living Bah?

[editor]

I'm hearing all sorts of rumours about Brixton's Favourite Yup Bar closing down and the old landlord coming back into the frame, but can anyone confirm this?

I've heard some other rather more unpleasant stuff, but I won't be posting it up here.

 

[Kanda]

I'm hearing all sorts of rumours about Brixton's Favourite Yup Bar closing down and the old landlord coming back into the frame, but can anyone confirm this?

I've heard some other rather more unpleasant stuff, but I won't be posting it up here.

PM me then

 

[quimcunx]

that's the one beside the satay bar, isn't it? I quite liked it the last time I was in, a good while ago. I'd be receptive to a pm though.

 

[editor]

Sorry! I'm not going to start spreading gossip on this rumour until it gets a bit firmed up.

 

[Fuzzy]

is the same living bar that had all the planning problems a few years ago. didnt the owner or someone pretending to be a chef there register here?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

As I was coming home last night I felt really ill but was cheered almost to the point of euphoria by seeing it boarded up and various bailliffy looking types overseeing it being boarded up and then photographing said boarding-up.....

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Why would they need to photograph it?

 

[newbie]

so that they can't be accused of failing to do their job when it's squatted.

 

[bluestreak]

Why would they need to photograph it?

Pride in a job well done?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

is the same living bar that had all the planning problems a few years ago.

Well they took out the original windows and replaced them with horrid MDF type frames and there was a planning enforcement thingy to put the originals back and it was ignored....There was trouble about these huge air-con things that they installed at the back that kept the residents in the flats behind awake too.....

 

[ChrisFilter]

Weren't there continual allegations of a racist door policy as well? 'Black quotas' and the like?

 

[rennie]

I overheard someone on the train last night saying she's having her birthday party there next week. Poor girl!

 

[mccliche]

they used to have glasses of free smarties and peanuts at the bar which was great

whenever i went with my bird it was always proepr quiet during happy-hour...and then they under-charged us a few times too. prob not a huge surprise it is not lasting. hopefully soemthing good will take its place

 

[editor]

As I was coming home last night I felt really ill but was cheered almost to the point of euphoria by seeing it boarded up and various bailliffy looking types overseeing it being boarded up and then photographing said boarding-up.....

Glad to see the Living Bah go, but I would hate to see the premises turn into 'luxury lifestyle' apartments/nail bar/Timbuktu Fried Chicken or whatever.

 

[mccliche]

Glad to see the Living Bah go, but I would hate to see the premises turn into 'luxury lifestyle' apartments/nail bar/Timbuktu Fried Chicken or whatever.

pizza restaurant or starbucks ?

 

[Dan U]

Glad to see the Living Bah go, but I would hate to see the premises turn into 'luxury lifestyle' apartments/nail bar/Timbuktu Fried Chicken or whatever.

that doesn't leave many options!

 

[kyser_soze]

Favourite Yup Bar

FOCPMSL...local meat market more like it. You want a Yup bar in Brixton, you've got Zee and that place with the Private members area above it on Clapham Park Road opposite the Tesco. Tongue&Groove & Plan B are more 'Yup bar' than Living...

 

[Belushi]

they used to have glasses of free smarties and peanuts at the bar which was great

Aye, just dont think about how many unwashed hands have been in the glass before yours

 

[Belushi]

I think I've only been there once, not really my cup of tea.

Weren't there rumours that they limited the number of black customers?

 

[CharlieAddict]

only went there twice.
enjoyed the free peanuts at the bar and the shots of smarties on the tables.
beer was flat.
and the place was mostly empty. dead. crap atmosphere.

if that was a yup bar, then places like mango landing is defo more nathan barley - ie geek pie.

 

[editor]

Tongue&Groove & Plan B are more 'Yup bar' than Living...

Tongue&Groove has long gone - closed down because of drugs'n'fighting (but no rock'n'roll) - although what's replaced it doesn't look particularly inviting.

There was a *ton* of police streaming into the Living Bah a few weeks ago, btw.

 

[kyser_soze]

...
Weren't there rumours that they limited the number of black customers?

Never seemed that way whenever I've been in there of a Saturday nite after a few beers and a couple of pills...

 

[kyser_soze]

...
There was a *ton* of police streaming into the Living Bah a few weeks ago, btw.

Again, something you don't see happening in 'yup bars' IME (and I've got the experience )

 

[tarannau]

if that was a yup bar, then places like mango landing is defo more nathan barley - ie geek pie.

Lot of laptops admittedly, but it's more Kids City than Barley territory most of the time. It's one of the few bars I've been to where kids can sometime outnumber the adults 3 to 1.

 

[potential]

Glad to see the Living Bah go, but I would hate to see the premises turn into 'luxury lifestyle' apartments/nail bar/Timbuktu Fried Chicken or whatever.

it was busy, cheap to organise a party there never any trouble...
why are you all gloating at its demise ?
what do you want then it to be boarded up then broken into somewhere the crack dealers can go to smack-up ???
every shop cant all be a free-trade juice-bar come unity-peace and pride black&white unite , drug users help centre ?

 

[Crispy]

I think I've only been there once, not really my cup of tea.

Weren't there rumours that they limited the number of black customers?

Yes, this was a few years ago now, when it was in the hands of the former owner, Mr Merrett. Thread here: http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=8252

 

[kyser_soze]

The funniest thing is. the people I've seen in Living are just as representative of local Brixtonians as anywhere else in the area - most of the people I've met in there live locally, there's a good mix of students, office and manual workers etc...I too share the bafflement at the sneery tone toward it and the gloating...

 

[Crispy]

The funniest thing is. the people I've seen in Living are just as representative of local Brixtonians as anywhere else in the area - most of the people I've met in there live locally, there's a good mix of students, office and manual workers etc...I too share the bafflement at the sneery tone toward it and the gloating...

Wasn't always like that, apparently - if you read the thread I linked, you can see the History the place has on these boards.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

It's because of the way the owner treated people locally.

 

[Belushi]

Yes, this was a few years ago now, when it was in the hands of the former owner, Mr Merrett. Thread here: http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=8252

Yeah, I thought it must have been on here I heard that.