Our next Makerspace social evening will be on Tuesday 14th March from 7:30pm. Save the date!
I’ll book a table in a local pub and confirm which one here - hopefully the Half Moon if its refurb is finished in time.
Come down and say hi, catch up, introduce yourself. Everyone welcome - new members, old members, potential members, partners, friends.
The half moon is a great shout if it’s reopened in time!
The Commercial just got refurbed too.
Yes we will have our pick of clean shiny pubs. Hopefully not with new scary prices to match - fingers crossed!
I dunno about you but The Florence pub was never amazing, but since the refurb its way to loud, they refuse to let people sit out the back unless they order food, and frankly the menu is exactly the same range of pub food as before but they pretend like they are some kind of restaurant.
Wish they’d turn the music down, it’s not a club. Open the space up, it’s not a restaurant. And go back to the old days. Very much hoping that the Half Moon (my favourite) and Commercial haven’t been ruined, but I haven’t been in either yet.
/rant over
I miss the squashy high benches they used to have in the front section of the Florence. They were a very nice place to sit on a quiet afternoon and watch the world go by.
Am so happy that the Half Moon is STAYING as it was and always should be.
Thanks for organising Sarah. I might even be there (with my unusual and confusing social skills, major anxiety … ) but everyone I know is like this in their own way so it’s a good thing to accept and have a good chat and fun together. Celebrate our differences and our samenesses 
The Half Moon is being turned into an upmarket gastropub 
So it is staying, but not as it was.
I didn’t read the news fully obvs. Surely the bar is listed? So at least that will survive.
I loved the Half Moon, great memories, lots of good gigs.
Let’s make sure we put those memories into the wood, let’s make them include the community, to be fair everyone likes that fun connection and once its begun the people make it flow and grow.
(I’ve been doing this quietly with pop Brixton, it’s working well, watering the seeds now, sshhh)
Tom, I couldn’t agree with you more. The ‘Gastro, ohmigod I got robbed and don’t necessarily feel happy or full after paying 15 squid for my I got out of bed for this hoping to have a Sunday roast dinner’ sooo does not happen. Or went there for lovely dinner is a lotto. Don’t know about the Florence or the Commercial but really they are the same London over I think. Never had anything to eat at The Half Moon, just boogied 
Talking about old days, the ‘Nags Head’ on Camberwell Road is marked for being knocked over, seen it today on the way home, there is a gathering of ‘Luxury Apartments’ being built right beside it but the locals are up in arms and it stands still. The ‘Nags Head’, fergawdsake, ‘only fools and horses’, allwroite, Del Boy. All inspired by the writer who knew South London well.
Will find the link for supporting it’s lack of destruction and think it might find me with a sleeping bag and flask of coffee.
I believe, the nags head has some kind of protected status - or at least it was waffled on about by the last mayor. It is beginning to look quite sad in the surrounding concrete jungle though.
I think it does too but don’t know the details, I just seen it 2 days ago on the news and ohmigod please World do not change it. Yeah, it has a huge concrete jungle being built to it’s left. I lived near East Street market when I first came to London, there was a bit of grimness but lots of colour from the ‘you couldn’t write it’ things we saw. Fantabulous. For instance the man who sold net curtains was part of Hyde Park Corner every Sunday.
I’ve never been in the Nags Head. Will begin to drink more!
I really need a ladder and a helper to take photos of the graffiti to the side of it.
Really, Boris supported it? Did he zip wire from the Onion or wot?
I don’t mind gatropubs, they’re nice, but The Florcnce isn’t even a gastro pub, it’s just crap food, and confusing it’s bar for a club, and the restaurant for a bar.
I don’t think that the Half Moon will ever be the same but then it wasn’t likely to be after it was sold just before the flood, and then the flood has displaced so many of the regulars to The Commercial that it’ll be interesting to see what happens.
It’s a shame The Prince Regent is so small because thats a good pub.
I signed this petition months ago
This is the last update I think
This has caused a lot of upset: music venues are on the serious decline…I’m pretty annoyed.
It’s a #¥€¥/&@ tradegy. How the hell are new musicians going to get heard and get the opportunity to play live.
Too many venues I have visited since my youth have closed down or stopped playing live music.
The lyceum, marquee club, Hammersmith palais.
Rainbow theatre. Are four major ones I can think of now, but countless other pubs and small clubs chasing after the corporate dollar making sterile personality free up market waterholes and feeding troughs.
I feel sorry for the youth of today who’s most intimate gig is at brixton academy (not a bad venue mind you!).
Sorry sounding like a grumpy old 845t4r0
Off the cuff, next to the station, have music 5 nights a week, sometimes more
Also The Sound Lounge on Tooting High Street, which just opened.
However new music venues are a striking rarity.
Bump! This is tonight