Posts Tagged ‘bad pubs’

Wheatsheaf Hotel New Milton

A pleasant food pub with a reasonable space to set up, good area for the audience too. Avoid putting the bass and drums in the alcove; it booms horribly in there. Playing times normally 9 – 11pm, but late access due to the restaurant normally means 9:30 to 11:30pm.

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Chicken Wire

Every so often a gig comes along that really buzzes, everyone’s on a high and the evening goes in to that mental list of great gigs. But unfortunately the converse is sometimes true, a gig that gets filed in the memory bank for all the wrong reasons.

We call these Chicken Wire gigs, from the Blues Brother’s film. Read the rest of this entry »