Hi Blog fans! and fellow thirty something indie kids (who should know better).
I am a regular at 90s Britpop haunt The Good Mixer! and Thursday night was their 25th anniversary party. I'm an occasional midweek drinker anyway so needed no second invitation to get rat arsed!
Thursday night started with the bar staff playing some acoustic mod numbers, substitute, by 'The Who' and a few dodgy Weller numbers (Garry the barman had a great voice actually, which I didn't expect from a tattooed 'ammers fan!) .
This infamous London boozer got steadily more packed as the night wore on, and the arrival of Suggs at around 8pm, covered the celebrity angle perfectly, he even rambled some beered up larriness in between the bands!.
The highlight of the evening was a set by some young whippersnappers called 'The Camera Club' . They were a very tight band in the mold of the Arctic monkeys, they had talent and blew all the other meat and potato cod mod outfits out of the water (I will be checking out these scousers again on myspace).
In the noughties where we are swamped by crap all bar one type chain bars, pubs such as The Good Mixer and The Dublin Castle are an Oasis in the desert of gastropubs and shite like slug in covent garden.
Rant is now over and Ive attached a couple of photos.
Hope you like!
