The Demise of the British Pub

[highlandsflyer]

Now funny you mention football on tv in a pub, it just so happens one our mob got hold of a keyring sized programmable remote from pound stretchers and when we were trying to do the quiz night the annoying sods were glued to the game and shouting, so drowning out the quiz questions, so off went that thing, and when the bar staff put it back on, they got to view various different channels in succesion, not the game. Mean I know, but it had to be done for the fun of it.

Might have been nicer to join in the fun.

Wherever I am I like to join with the appreciation of sport, it is a human bonding experience. Most pubs have somewhere you can escape it if you want. Bad planning to run a quiz along side a live match.

I used to love the Wetherspoons thanks to their non TV approach. They reneged on that after finding some of their outlying pubs could not live without it, (Like Wick).

My favourite pubs have neither TV nor games. They do, however, have live music.

Live music is the essence of a great pub experience.

 

[Woz]

Well said Sir. A bit of music - but not bang in your face or pumped up volume to the hilt goes a long way too.

I once went to a "local" with an old friend in the outskirts of Manchester and asked the bar staff if it was Karaoke night at the sight of guy blaring out unblissfill untuned melodies. The reply back was "it's our regular singer". I should have spotted his hand made welded beer glass holder to the microphone stand.... Great night.

 

[highlandsflyer]

Up here we tend to have a wee acoustic session going on and the rest of the pub is free for gentle conversation.

I am 44, I can't really hack pumping music and all that day to day.

 

[Woz]

I guess Scotland still has it's grip on country pubs and what they should be; it's been a long time since I went there. I was really sad with a return to Dublin after some 15 years to see the rows of pubs with impromptu bands performing replaced with puke throwing stag night capitalism.