does anyone know any, ideally in London or Manchester but suggestions for anywhere in England welcome. I've never actually seen a piano in a pub, not one that works or that you wouldn't get a slap round the head for just strolling up and playing. Any suggestions?
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The Castle in Manchester
has a piano. Its also the best pub in the city. Go there, right now.
i've been in there.
they don't sell any good largers, do thay?
true, but they do have a decent range of smallers
They have lots of decent real ale
and some crappy lagers. But its all about the real ale, Double Hop and Unicron on tap. Full of win, as some choose to say.
* unicorn
real ale's fucking 'orrible.
What draught largers to they have?
No idea
I've never drunk draugh lager in there. Only one way to find out. Its very cheap in there too, if that swings it for you.
is big hands generally regarded as a good pub?
ive only ever been to manchester twice and we went there both times and i enjoyed it
It's OK
full of indy cindy types...
and it doesnt have a piano
Where is the Castle?
Its on Oldham Street
if you walk in the direction of Ancoats (i.e. down the street away from piccadilly gardens) its on the right hand side. It has a certain charm*
* Its a fucking dump, but it has great ales on and the tap room is heaven, basically
i wish these existed in abundance
pianos are brilliant
The consitution
on the junction of Regents Canal and St. Pancreas way has one.
It's ace.
The George Tavern on Commerical Road, E1
you can play that. there are quite a few tucked around the East End. Mother Brown needs somewhere to get her knees up, after all.
Biddle Brothers in Clapton, London
it's a really nice pub as well
yeh biddle bros is cool
i live pretty much opposite, has a lockin for smokers too...so maybe the quintessential piano bar!
Pubs with pianos are the equivalent
of the twat with a guitar who turns up at every house party ever.
Not always
but most of the time, yes.
There's a posh pub in Nottingham that occasionally have a professional pianist in, that's quite nice.
Drunken Elton John impressions are not.
i dunno, there's something quite nice about a piano being played in the background
depends what's being played - if it was Chopsticks (or Keane) then i think i might object.
also - what do you think the piano-playing equivalent of like Sunny Afternoon or Wonderwall is?
you know, the piano equivalent of the song that all GPTs (guitar-playing twats) seem to play at parties? i reckon maybe "trouble" by coldplay.
That or the Eastenders theme tune.
played one-handed? i could do that
if someone wrote on the names of the notes on the piano keys first.
Does each branch of The Piano & Pitcher
have a working piano that is allowed to be used by patrons in it? It should do.
they do
also the national baseball league send a touring pitcher over from the states to meet'n'greet, sign pitchers etc.
I thought
they just had sales teams relentlessly pitch ideas for new products at you until you bought a bottle of pino grigio
"i'm sorry i can't invest in you. i'm out"
Filthy McNasty's
in Angel.
Like Cattle with Cake
or Craftman with Cardboard
or Peter with Piss-stains
I think
the Happy Return in Nottingjam does
That's the one on Church St, yeah?
I've never been in there, is it any good?
It is
it's proper cheap and studenty. They do 'steak' meals for about £3.50. There's usually a group of elderly black men heatedly playing dominoes in the corner, drinking brandy. Generally a gud laff.
The man who plays piano here
is AMAZING
The Night & Day Café
has one, but it's either been in there for many years or lots of people have smashed it up when they have gigs on or something, because it doesn't look playable.
...
The Grovenor in Stockwell has one.
As does the Urban Bar on Whitechapel Road, which a few of us... well, me, Chiaroscuro and his mates put to use one night playing Rod Stewart and Funky House. It was sweet.
The Chemic
in Leeds Six.
Good pub.
The Castle
on Commercial Road has one too
Shirley
the Urban Bar doesn't have one? Been there dozens of times and never noticed it (bollocks pub but it's just up the road and open late)
The Pride of Spitalfields just off Brick Lane has one. Was in there one night when there was karaoke and the machine died. It was the perfect just-like-the-movies moment where you jump straight on the piano and keep singing the song. Or it would have been if I'd bothered to learn the piano.
i've never seen one in a pub either
pride of spitalfields
just off brick lane
I have been known to work here
5 am lock-ins arent so great for me though :(
heheh once we had a lock in with my very posh friend
the locals kept calling her 'the lady'. good times
ha
Yeah that sounds about right. Their locals are some of the loveliest people in the world. Apart from one guy called the Doc who likes to let you know that he once helped produce a Queen record approximately every 1.3 seconds.