Rocker Pubs in London, Windsor, Maidenhead, Reading, etc.

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Please help me find ROCKER pubs in the above locations. I think London is probably the best bet, but I live in hope.

It is not for me, I am a MOD. It is for some visiting 'longhairs'. I am worried that they won't be allowed inside anywhere remotely 'normal'.

Exceptional ROCKER pubs further afield are also of interest.

Thank you.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 13 September 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Intrepid Fox, Wardour St, London

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 13 September 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i concur.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 13 September 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

In my mind's eye, every pub in Maidenhead is a Rocker pub.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 13 September 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.fancyapint.com/main_site/thepubs/pub661.htm

although it's a bit harsh i reckon. i've been in several times and the punters are generally a friendly bunch (but that's metallers for you, i suppose). the barstaff are pretty surly, but it's not like they won't serve you if you can't name all the metallica albums in order or anything...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 13 September 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

ISN'T THE INTERWEB WONDERFUL?!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 September 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Also any old Hobgoblin should do the trick, but I have no idea if there are any in Maidenhead, Reading or Windsor.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 September 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

There is a Hobgoblin in M*id*nhead, but it isn't all that rockish.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 13 September 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

And there was one in Reading, but it was full of Archaeologists rather than rockers the only time I went in there.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 13 September 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

not really a pub (but a beer garden out the back) there's Garlic & Shots on frith street.. there's a mosh pit at the bar downstairs.

devonshire arms in camden

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 September 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Ach, there's a great rocker/metalhead pub in Oxford, but I was so drunk when I stumbled in there that I can't remember a thing about it except how great it was.

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 13 September 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

the Glock! Officially, the Gloucester Arms, tho no-one ever calls it that.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 13 September 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

My ex-boyfriend took me there, when we were both completely plastered enough to actually enjoy it and air guitar along with everything. Oh, fun times...

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 13 September 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

they put turf down inside it once. The only pub with a lawn inside.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 13 September 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The Devonshire Arms is the world epicentre of goth. It is also a dump. These facts may or may not be connected.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 13 September 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Northampton was the world epicentre of Goth?

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 13 September 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, if any of Northampton is more goth than the Dev, I will eat a bowl of clove cigarettes.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 13 September 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was a bassplayer in a ska band, we played Harley's Roadhouse in Windsor. That was a 'rocker pub', we had thought it was called "Harvey's" when booking it. Thankfully, the audience numbered two.

but anyway, there's one for you. Harley's Roadhouse. Close to Windsor town centre.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 September 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The one in Reading is the Rising Sun near the train station

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 13 September 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

HOBGOBLIN IN CANTERBURY

Also in Forest Hill!

― the bellefox, Monday, 13 September 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

neither Oxford Hobgoblin is particularly rock.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 13 September 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

That Canterbury Goblin is NONE MORE RAWK. I have spent many a happy night in there arguing with the motley band of regulars. Also the floor is sticky at all times = it is a rock pub.

The Forest Hill one has been de-rocked and is now a shabbily tasteful establishment with big sofas and fairy lights and an internet cafe upstairs that I have never once seen open.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 September 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

definitely garlic and shots. the basement is like a black metal tomb (in a good way).

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bobbin in Lancaster is very Goth and Rocker. It is conveniently bobbins.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you all very much. There is a Hobgoblin in Maidenhead, but I've never been in. Doesn't look very rocker. They've got a kind of beer yard instead of a beer garden.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

is the Gloucester Arms the one with the metal DJ's in the basement? Just off of Oxford?

if so, that place so PWNZ.

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"just off of oxford" what? i'm not aware of it having a basement, it's kind of between the playhouse and the appolo...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

about here:

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=451135&Y=206457&A=Y&Z=1

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thinking of another place...I wish i could remember the name, it was a pretty standard looking pub, then downstairs the DJs spun just the most FANTASTIC metal jamz.

just off of Oxford, a couple blocks down from hyde park.

Memory is a bit foggy.

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

if you come visit me in london, i'll take you to garlic and shots. if you have hot-sauce-laden vodka, you can pretend that you're drinking blood. mwaha.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

oh oxford STREET, i see. we were talking about oxford the city :)

not sure where you mean. bit too west for me...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Garlic and Shots is k-menko - I've had some revolting, revolting drinks in there before. We should FAP there!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

not only k-menko but LIFE-SAVING. i staved off what was promising to be a crippling cold one night through heavy consumption of garlic-laced vodka.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm so up for garlic and shots FAP! They do food too! with a lot of garlic in it. obv.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

downstairs had the best swedish metal dude bartender last time i was there.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

'Garlic and Shots' is a place?

There is a Gothic pub on Fleet Street.

It is touching that Matt DC knows *both* the Hobgoblins I mention. No, it's impressive, striking, notable.

― the bellefox, Monday, 13 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

garlic and shots

http://www.garlicandshots.com/Img/starters.gif

garlic vodka coffee wtf!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I have been carried out of both Hobgoblins, incidentally. The Canterbury one on 10th September 2001, when my legs suddenly stopped working.

What about the GOFF pub opposite the Champion on Wells Street?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

the glock does somehow manage to be the theatre pub and a RAWK pub at the same time (unsurprisingly given its location, near the Playhouse, Burton Taylor and New* Thetres), well at least it has framed pics of ac-tors on the walls.

* this was known as the appollo back when Carsmile was in town.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

DC, I went there in Sept 2001 too!

(Canterbury, not that precise pub.)

― the bellefox, Monday, 13 September 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

the bloodshot. i think that's what cured me of my incipient cold.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

garlic vodka coffee wtf!

WTF INDEED!!!! Just reading this trio of words makes my mouth water and my mind hurt.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there really still trouble between mods and rockers?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 13 September 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

We have just been to THE RISING SUN in Reading! It was very friendly! They asked if my friends liked Judast Priest! They do like Judast Priest! Amazing scenes!

Next up, THE HARLEY ROADHOUSE.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

This could be the greatest tale ever told. Have more adventures with your rocker friends.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

(further to mark's glock mention above, i was told by a friend who worked in the playhouse that the distance between their stage door and the bar of the glock was the shortest distance between a stage door and beer in the country, hence the pics of luvvies amongst the metallers)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, Matt DC. We just had BREAKFAST! I think we might be hitting THE INTREPID FOX later.

What PLAYHOUSE? Sounds a bit gay.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

the oxford playhouse. it is a theatre. therefore it probably is quite gay...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Oxford, Oxford, city of dreaming spires Oxford?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

yes Oxford, Oxon.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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We have been to the HOBGOBLIN in Reading! Ricardo OTM, not very ROCK, more FOLKY! They were talking about KATE JUGSY! They have beer encounter cubicles and you can write on the tables! In Basque! There are lots of beer mats. One of the upcoming guest beers is from the BURTON BRIDGE BREWERY!

Now we are going to WINDSOR!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

OLd Trout!!

ha ha, it ain't what it used to be

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

ah the Old Trout.

It definitely aint what it used to be. It now demolished! Now it a bar/pub/restaurant/gazebo attachment to the original pub.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 September 2004 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't find the Harley Roadhouse. We went to the Two Brewers or whatever it's called, the one at the top of Long Walk, but it was full of posh wankers stuffing their ugly faces, so we went to the Highlander or Clansman or something, where they were showing the football on a MASSIVE SCREEN. It was a game of two halves.

To be honest, I've had enough of rocker pubs for a while.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Windsor is very quiet compared to two or three weeks ago. It was my 'winter-is-a-coming' moment.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Whot on EARTH is a "beer encounter cubicle"??

Is this a strange MANG term for whot we ladies call "a pissoire"?

― Starry (hello chickens), Thursday, 16 September 2004 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

No, just tiny little roomlets with space for two, four or even eight people. They would be called booths if they weren't off the toilet corridor.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

We have been to the HOBGOBLING in Maidenhead. It is the worst fucking pub I've ever been to. No rockers, but the derelict boghole-style decor and painfully loud music appealed to the rockers. I'm beginning to doubt their true rocker credentials. The HOBGOBLING was full of kids who are going to be starting university next week but don't know where they're going, eg. 'It's somewhere north-west, I think, on the way to Wales, Newcastle-Under-Lyme it's called.' This is not the first conversation of its stype I've heard this week. The country is obviously going to the dogs.

We are going to Oxford today, but I refuse to go near that rocker pub, I want CAFÉ CULTURE.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

'type'

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Miller, I wish I had gone with you, to the towns and pubs.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

We are going to Oxford today, but I refuse to go near that rocker pub, I want CAFÉ CULTURE.

DON'T LET THEM BREAK YOU!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the idea of the pinefox in a rockers pub

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too.

Shall we go?

― the bellefox, Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish you had come too, The Pinefox. One day we will go to the CRO-BAR. I have spent the morning claiming to be HEAVIER than them. You would be surprised how annoyed they get.

We didn't ge to Oxford. They weren't interested.

When we go to bars I nod occasionally while trying to watch the RYDER CUP out of the corner of my eye.

They went back to the HOBGOBLING. They must be mental.

They are going home tomorrow. I am surprisingly enthusiastic about this.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 19 September 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i should check to see if an old friend still works at the crobar. if so, i can lead an expedition there in october (aka rockober).

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I may have been to the Hobgoblin in Maidenhead more times than any other pub outside London; however I don't think I've stepped in there since Robbie Earle equalised for Jamaica vs Croatia in WC98. It may have drifted rockwards since then. I got the impression it was the least likely place to be the venue for a chucking-out time fight in the town. Certainly it was always full of attractive, excitable young people. I liked that sort of thing, once.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

HOBGOBLINGERS in Maidenhead are certainly young, average age 18 and three quarters I would say, but I certainly didn't find them attractive, in fact I thought they were twats, and I dont usually go around thinking people are twats (unlike my heavy companions). They (Hobgoblingers) do that hugging people for no reason thing that they presumably get from 'Friends' or something. The music was whatever LUDACRIS albums features 'I've got hoes in area codes' complete with foul-languaged skits at eardrum piercing volume. It's true that fights look unlikely, but it is a very unhygenic pub, could probably be closed down on those grounds alone. But worst of all, the beer was really terrible, like puddle water after a nuclear holocaust.

The heavies have gone now. I am quite pleased.

Yesterday I made the Male Heavy lie on a gravestone to have his photo taken. Later on they erased it because it gave them the willies. Lightweights! I told you I was heavier. Also, God moves in mysterious ways: they took loads of photos of churches and churchyards in the name of heavy metal, despite claiming to be in league with the devil. You look through their photos and it could be Simon Schama's camera or someone like that.

He did not get a tattoo (again, note similarity to Simon Schama).

I am now looking forward to Freud's, even if I will only be able to afford tap water in a jam jar.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 20 September 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

mike, is that the place we spent too long an evening in listening to everyone sing along with oasis songs? [shudder]

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 20 September 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Good God, the Hobgoblin seems far, far worse than I remember. You could certainly have a conversation in there. Unlike, say, Skindles (was it Skindles?) where the only sub-shout chat would be with the nice ambulanceman taking you to hospital.

The Oasis Incident wasn't in the Hob, was it? My greatest concentration of Hob experience was pre-ChampaiiinSupernovahhh, '93 or so.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 20 September 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

My local is the Hob in Bristol and I am in there AS MUCH AS YOU WOULD EXPECT SOMEONE TO BE IN THEIR LOCAL. That said, there is no rocker element.

Current top 5 on the jukebox:

Release The Bats
Baby's On Fire
Svefn-g-englar
She's In Parties
Party Hard

Although that may be just because of me.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Mortiis is playing the Cathouse tonight! Miller, you're in the wrong place.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

What is Mortiis? A black metal group? If so, call me back in three months when I've got over the last week.

Incidentally, I refuse to beleive you were ever 'frumpy and square'.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Mortiis is cheesy euro-synth rock - lashings of keyboards over commercial sub-goth-rock guitars combined with naff vox and simpleton catchy songs.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, cancel the three month respite.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't mortiis the one that had himself surgically altered to look like a gnome/evil elf kind of thing?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

here he is:

http://www.mortiis.com/gallery/gfx_past/55.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Here I am keeping it real with two rock chicks outside The Intrpeid Fox:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/pjm230568/PJMFOX.jpg

As you can see, I was still quite keen on all this rocker pub business at the time.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 2 October 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, that might be a bit big.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 2 October 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

I am no longer interested in Rocker Pubs, but I would like to know what those in the know think about Datchet. This seemed better than starting a new thread for what will probably be three posts at the most.

Thank you in advance.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 25 August 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Datchet is posh. And has a railway juntion.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

is it pronounced da-shay or datch-et? i'm hoping for the former.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

It is cheaper than Windsor. Is it nice?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

It rhymes with ratchet, Lauren.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

then i vote no.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

If you turn off the M4 at J6 (Slough / Windsor) and take the road towards Old Windsor and Egham, it's just sort of there, right next to the M4 (although you have to go back to Windsor to actually get on it). Features of interest: a fucking great reservoir.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Is it really cheaper than Windsor Meadows (genuinely tasteful development of modern houses, unfortunately suitable only for people with no sense of smell)?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Also, why the interest?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Also, why the internet?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Interest: it is cheaper than Windsor; it is not Maidenhead, which is where we live now. It is also cheaper than Maidenhead. It has a choo choo train to London that has nicer seats than First Great Western Link.

Internet: I don't know anybody in the real world.

Windsor Meadows: Never heard of it. Why does it smell? Is it near the sewage works that you go past if you traipse along the Jubilee River?

I am talking about the cheapest homes, first time buyer shit.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 25 August 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

"it is cheaper than Windsor; it is not Maidenhead, which is where we live now. It is also cheaper than Maidenhead. It has a choo choo train to London"

Have you looked at Burnham and Taplow? Also some of the areas outside and to the north of Slough aren't as awful as you might expect.

"Why does [Windsor Meadows] smell? Is it near the sewage works that you go past if you traipse along the Jubilee River?"

Yup.

"I am talking about the cheapest homes, first time buyer shit."

There's an awful lot of shared ownership around Langley.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 25 August 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

I am a bit scared of Burnham. I thought it was a bit rough. Am I wrong? I like Taplow proper. The only north of Slough place I know is the hospital at Wexham Park. I don't really know anything about shared ownership.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 25 August 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

It turns out that our rented flat is being sold out from under us, for the second time in three months, so this matter becomes more urgent (!)

Usual call for help.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Burnham smells like Chocolate. Smells like chocolate boy...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Nestle?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/action/publicsite.PropertySearch

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Nestle?

Mars.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, that link leads to the flat that is being sold from under us. Quite a lot of porkies in the description, too.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

Plenty of other properties on there too. Probably all containing quite a lot of porkies in the descriptions.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 26 August 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

Yes, sorry. It is helpful, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I will give it my full attention in due course.

My initial price range brouhgt up zero properties :-(, admittedly in Maidenhead, which was the point of the thread in the first place.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 26 August 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

Did you see this one? I can't imagine you're going to find anything much cheaper in that area.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 26 August 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

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