I'm going to London at the weekend and wondered if anyone could recommend a good daytime boozer similar to my local Sleazy's. You know the drill, not an old man's pub but not a style bar. Not immaculate, but not a pigsty. Decent jukebox, no middle aged work-nights out. Somewhere I can enjoy an afternoon bite to eat and won't feel like there's some weird cunt staring at where i put my napkin.
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John Fail's Bar
John 'Will' Fail
i WISH he had a bar
Big Red
All I Could Find Was
"The dress code is Goth, but the kids are Cool!"
I should have added No Goths into my criteria
it's not really a goth place
it's americana-themed and attracts as many students as goths.
students and goths
Sounds like my nightmares. Spellcasting: K-I-L-L
BUT ALSO
nice finnish cider and johnny cash / slayer / stooges etc on the jukebox.
I'VE JUST BEEN THERE
Was It
Full of students and Goths. Or Goth students. Or people studying Goth ?
Few goths (mainly the staff)
a few 'normals' playing pool, a bloke from Nambucca up the road, a student types and a couple of people looking like they were wondering what they'd just walked into. Pretty quiet evening... well, it is Monday. I really do think that the Big Red is the closet I've been to in LDN to having a Sleazy's vibe*. The only thing missing is somewhere downstairs to host bands...
* not that I've been there in a good number of years but I spoke to The Ettes a few days ago and they'd played there recently (or maybe just visited. i forget) and were raving about it. hooray
there was also
lots and lots of AC/DC and Aerosmith on the jukebox, but this is pretty normal.
i also
still like The Good Mixer.
so maybe people shouldn't listen to me.
I Hated
The Good Mixer when I was there. Maybe I shouldn't listen to you!
The Griffin
It smells soooooooo good
I was chatting about this the other day
There's (apparently) no place in London like Sleazys. From the mouth of a London man. No guff!
But Isn't London
Bigger than the entire Scotland?
Yeah it totally is
But it's the weirdest place ever. I was down there last week and they have the crappest pubs ever. No style dude, no style.
Aye
I've been in about 10 pubs in London. Not impressed. I mean, that place in Camden we ate was AW-rite, but it could've easily been in East Kilbride. Or Dr. Kildare's garden.
glasgOW NOW
haha
GLOLSGOW!!
ive been going to Sleazys for over 10 years
... and i still dont get what people love about it, its nice enough but it aint all that tbh
the ironing is delicious
Me Too
I've clocked up 10 years of drinking there, and have never thought it that remarkable. Until I'm in somewhere like Ipswich or Leicester and I miss it so much.
Aldo
Do some travelling, then you'll understand.
I do travel
and haven't actually lived in Glasgow for years, and i wasnt really criticising it, but what i mean is despite having many good nights there I doesn't really hold a special place in my heart like other bars do.
What Bars
Hold a special place in your heart? Any in Londinium?
the original 13th note
not really any in london... there are some that are alright if you live near them but none i would make a special journey for
Yeah
You know the Glassford Note is now Bamboo or something. Not been in. Even a pub/cafe that's like the King St Note would do, but London doesn't have one?
Do we just like these pubs because our friends drank there or they remind us of a certain time? I'm not sure... I like a pub that I can even go and eat on my own and not feel self-conscious. That's sometimes the mark of a good place.
London
is generally lacking in decent, imaginative places to drink.
The way you described Sleazy's
makes it sound perfect and I sort of like it more now. Weird.
I Like It More
Since this thread hasn't thrown up ANY London contenders yet
Depends where abouts your gunna be squire?
Well, I'll Be
In Camden for MBV, but staying up nearer Seven Sisters station. I'm up for a wee tour about decent bars though, just to give London more of a chance than I have in the past.
Try the George in
Borough market.
The Bricklayers arms just off Tottenham Court road. Or the Fitzroy tavern and the Wheatsheaf, both of which are just round the corner.
Inn
Cheers For The Tips
I might check them out, but these do look like the kinds of pubs I usually end up in when i'm down there. Nice N Old N Homely. I'm thinking of somewhere with more of a punk sensibility, but not in the mohicans and union jacks sense.
I Wonder
Where PocketMouse drinks?
She's never left York, it's like Logan's Run or something
she'll implode on here 30th birthday or if she walks more than 200 metres from the city walls, whichever happens first.
Logan's Run, lol
Now THAT is a reference point!
Michael York
Does York "have a Sleazy's"? In fact does New York "have a Sleazy's" or is Sleazy's "Glasgow's -Insert New York Bar-"
the times i've went down to London
I've always looked out for shit hole pubs with random ale and Australians watching cricket/rugby on the tv while men in suits talk smug shit to each other. It makes me glad to be alive to experience this change in scenery, give it a try.
Also, Sleazys is full of dicks these days anyway.
I'll Add
"Doesn't Show Sport" to my narrowing list. That was one of the things i liked when I first discovered places like Sleazy's and the Note. More about music than sports, which was the opposite of any pubs I'd been to at that point. Also, a pub that can handle having a few dicks in it and still be good wins for me. I take your point though.
The Hermits Cave
in camberwell is good. but you probably won't go that far away.
you can tell i'd like any place with that name.
Did You Seek
That place out? I bet you just googled "Pubs For Hermits". Oh man - Mega Sectarian singalong outside. Need My Rifle.
no! i honestly didn't
i was in camberwell and met some people in there. it had a good atmosphere. the name was the icing on the cake.
The Name Of
John Fail's Pub is written in Icing
sleazys is only good for gigs
upstairs just isn't as nice for chilling. 13th note is better ohyes.
Depends
On the time of day in both places. And the company, i suppose.
Enterprise in Camden
Bradley's Spanish Bar off Oxford Street
others, I'm sure...just blanking out a bit
The Mucky Pup in Islington is your answer.
It has no pretension, no bastards and a free Jukebox with The Jesus Lizard on.
If you don't like the Jesus Lizard you may as well just drink yourself to death on Tesco value Gin in the park somewhere.
Hold Up..
a FREE Jukebox? I like The Jesus Lizard, but is it free because that's the only record on there? It also says it's dog-friendly, which can go either way. The old owner of Sleaazy's used to bring her mutt in all the time. As long as there's no gypsys or cunts with rottweilers i'm happy with a wee dog running about.
Well I've only seen friendly Staffys or the like
in the ownership of relaxed punks. There aren't many dogs in there usually, though, if any.
The owner of the pub formerly owned a record store and stocks the jukebox himself. It's always free and there's a good selection.
Because the pub's just off the Essex Road, most of the normal post-work pub-going crowd go into the many pubs along there.
Has Anyone
Even been to 8mm in Berlin? That's the only bar in another city that I've walked into and felt immediately at home.