tek-monkey
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The old staff are no longer there, one is now at the bird and I think a few customers have followed him.
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So I take it you didn’t make ‘Speed dating night’ on Sunday then???Hey forumites. Long time no posts from me. Decided to speak up on this though, following a Saturday night experience at The Market Vaults. Florence and I and another chap (whom I don’t think is registered here, but let’s call him The Golden Cod) have been in the Vaults many Saturday nights this year, largely because of the live music, occasionally joined by Gramaisc, tek-monkey and others. Under the previous management, you were pretty much guaranteed to be able to see live music of a decent standard every Saturday, huge thanks to OJK for some great nights. However, this week Florence and the Cod and I decided to try a few other places instead, with a view to finding a new go-to place for Saturday nights because of the way things are going at the Vaults, with this new addition prominently positioned in the pub an indication:
Presumably representative of the new management’s taste in music, and consistent with Gramaisc’s remarks earlier in the thread regarding what he had to listen to while consuming a burger (dire Willenhall Corsa stuff, or as I’ve been known to refer to it: thuggish noise pollution).
Anyway, the three of us went to the Bird first (where there were ex-Vaults customers everywhere you looked), followed by the newly reopened Bear, and then The Shrewsbury Arms. All were okay, but of course the missing ingredient that makes a Saturday night was live music. So, beer having done what it does, we reached the regrettable decision of checking out the Vaults. I wish we hadn’t.
“Live music” was provided by a pair of blokes who were wearing (and pretending to play) guitars while doing what was basically karaoke. Luckily I’d drank enough beer that I don’t remember it in vivid detail, but I remember enough to know that it was pitiful. However, this didn’t stop JDs Burger Company from stating on their Facebook page that it was an “amazing band” that “rocked the party”.
Passing it off as live music, when in fact it’s grown men doing what you might find a ten-year-old doing in front of the bedroom mirror? Surely better to have no music at all than insult us with this garbage? I know not everyone can be Rodney Branigan, but at least let’s have actual musicians rather than pretenders.
After this, definitely leaving it a while before setting foot in the Vaults again. It seems to me Slater’s are making an effort to put on proper music every Saturday, and might be worth checking out.
So I take it you didn’t make ‘Speed dating night’ on Sunday then???
If anyone attended this event please speak up!
Oh my god I thought you were joking but I’ve just checked out their Facebook!So I take it you didn’t make ‘Speed dating night’ on Sunday then???
I considered trying the speed dating with my killer line - "Any chance of a quickie?"
No point bothering with posh birds.To which she will say “ I think you’ll find it’s pronounced Quiche”
Which real men don't eat, so she'll know to avoid him anyway...To which she will say “ I think you’ll find it’s pronounced Quiche”
Had a similar experience a few weeks back. The girl behind the bar was ok, but the manager there had very little interest to show anyone in the bar.
Except for his buddies in from the council.....