The Echo has a great Liverpool pubs supplement tonight, including two pages on the best Southport pubs. A big picture is given over to The Lakeside.
This brought back a lot of happy memories as it is a pub I was barred from and threatened by the landlady’s snarly granddaughter who was a hack on the Daily Post. I wonder where this great lady of the Press is now?
Here’s the original post for a laugh. Things must have improved.
http://southportbooze.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/lakeside-can-stew-in-its-own-juices/
Categorized in The Lakeside Inn
Puritans like ‘doc’ bellis caught flat footed as the booze truth emerges.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6597011/Drinking-up-to-bottle-of-wine-a-day-can-cut-heart-disease-risk.html
Categorized in The war against drinking
Tags: health benefits of wine, healthy wine, is wine good for health
This looks like paradise – opening on November 12 is The Contemporary Urban Centre at the junction of Jamaica, Greenland and Parliament Streets, close to Liverpool’s city centre.
The jewel in the new venue’s crown is the Beer House basement, with live jazz and acoustic music two nights a week with a beer menu to die for.
Kicking things off this Thursday is the Marley Chingus Quartet at 8pm. Jazz every Thursday, open mic each Sunday and music quiz nite on Tuesdays.
Categorized in Liverpool pubs
Simon Cowell was going on about the film Gumbo on tonight’s X Factor, featuring the Roy Orbison song Crying. It’s not Gumbo, it’s Gummo, an ace punk film featuring loads of drinking and bizarre characters.
It’s a genuinely disgusting film featuring cat mutilation and other disturbing scenes but it’s got that X Factor that used to make American indie films so great.
Simon Cowell’s never seen it. He’s a cheat. Vote funboys John and Edward, give Simon a dud.
Here’s an interesting essay on the film
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/uploads/docs/050008.pdf
Categorized in Idle chat
Tags: gumbo film, gumbo movie, gummo, louis walsh, simon cowell, x factor