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So, what do you think the worst thing a pub can do ?

I was in the Bull and Castle for the first time with a few mates on Friday. We had a ball. Loads of wonderful and interesting beers to try, big open benches in the beer hall allow a good chat. They don't serve food upstairs, so the place doesn't smell of food, and there are no babies & buggies.

And then, just as the night gest into full flow, some wanker starts making a racket in the corner with a CD player. Only that I might want to go back some day, I'd have thrown a bottle at him.

Why do pubs do this ? Get their clientele so badly wrong ? It's the main reason I don't go to the Porter House...sometimes you can't get seats far from the guys making a racket up stairs, so you have to head home early. I'm all for music, if it's appropriate. But I go to pubs to drink and talk. Not drink and listen.

John

From talking to the B&C management it seems that me, you and everyone I know are in the minority. People in pubs at that time of the day and week want music, and if there's no music they won't come. Strange, innit?

See, I don't think so. But the owners would need proof. Next time, I'll go around with a list, and ask the punters:

Do you:
Like the music, and it's voluume
Music is fine, too loud
I don't mind if it's louder
I'm old and bent and don't like music in my pub

And see what happens. OF course, it'll be skewed by the fact that many people who don't like loud music would have left....

John

"TheBeerNut":16yz9oy6 wrote: People in pubs at that time of the day and week want music[/quote:16yz9oy6]


I wounder who supported/did that piece of research?

Unfortunately most people are of the 'lets go to the pub to get locked' mentality, and despite paying lipservice to the responsible drinking lark, most vintners are only to happy to have these beer swilling fish-like punters consuming vast quantities of alcohol, as it keeps the profits up, and the place in business. Loud music attracts this species of drinker as it gives them a chance to dance off some of the sugar-energy gained from drinking loads of sugar-loaded high-alcohol drinks. It also drowns out the drunken warblings, making the chance of actually remembering last night's conquests' name even more remote, (which is usually no bad thing).

Us here on this forum being a different breed of drinker, and the majority of us probably in the latter half of the 20-40 age group, tend to eschew this sort of bothersome noise, as it gets in the way of a good chat, and drunken dancing people tend to spill drink on us. Unfortunately, without these fish, pubs wouldn't stay open and we wouldn't be able to drink our nice beer, so in my mind it's a necessary evil...

There doesn't seem to be much chance of escaping the dreaded late bar DJ these days. It is interesting that most publicans would say that this is what the majority of punters want. What we need is an old man's pub that serves quality beer. I'm tearful just thinking about the concept. Can you imagine how wonder that would be?

Also, note my signature.....