POPTIMISM is here (as long as "here" is London)! Thursday 24th March

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Club FT is dead, long live POPTIMISM!!

We have moved to The Polar Bear on Lisle Street in London's trendy Up West (does somewhere that close to Leicester Square count as Soho?).

It is £2 to get in before 11, £4 after. We are having to charge because we have to pay for doorstaff. We have been assured that beer is reasonably priced, so it shouldn't end up more expensive than a night at the chapel.

Because it is our first night we are doing ALL NUMBER ONES, ALL THE TIME.

Also, although the club is on a thursday it is NOT A SCHOOL NIGHT* as it is the day before good friday. The polar bear also has a later license so we'll probably be going on until one-ish (there's loads of night bus options round there too so no excuses).

*it is a school night for porkpie though, aw poor porkpie**

**NB porkpie is not an vicar

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

look, here is kylie! to tell us more...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

i'm glad it's Kylie in there and not Cheggers

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Haha oops duplicate thread! Sorry Steve!

Crucial info from the other thread which Steve has missed:

- it's my 32nd birthday party.

- FREE GIFTS!!! (if you get there early)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Birthday and gifts, rah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Can I come dressed as Mr Blobby aka The Woodsman?

― BARMS, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

This will be my LAST EVER DAY at Patronising Overlords plc. I may well be a little drunk when I arrive.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

(Basically the free gift will be a CD lucky dip for the first 50 or so paying customers. In the lucky dip will be the CDs we've been using for Popular, because I'm making new ones having replaced several shonky files, added double A sides, etc etc. So what you will get is a SLICE OF CHART HISTORY with my spidery writing on the front.)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Yay!

― lock robster (robster), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Teh Incentive!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

BLOBBY BLOBBY BLOBBY!

― Mr Blooby, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

also anyone bringing a person that has actually been at number one gets in free. i'm tempted to say that barima in a blobby outfit counts, but i fear this actually happening ;)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

I was in the choir that appeared on East 17s Stay Another Day.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

rubbidge. real actual pop stars only, unless you have PROOF.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Alan is under strict orders to bring Matt Goss

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Which Chart, though? I've had "number ones". In other countries. On college radio. At individual stations...

I mean, blimey. £2! That destroys all the fun of it, doesn't it?

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

at a meal i sat nearly opposite some guy from tur1n breaks the other week.

― NRQ, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Steve, I have a signed Spice Girls CD, an ex-TOTP presenter's phone numbers and my unborn child in Mutya's womb. Good enough?

― BARMS, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

You so do not. Mutya is bearing the SPAWN OF POP ITSELF.

Can I bring my dad? Not that he's a pop star, it's just that he's flying in that day from Bangladesh and I think it would be funny to see the jetlagged look on his face when all the boys do a synchronised Busted Jump.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I mean, blimey. £2! That destroys all the fun of it, doesn't it?

No, for as explained, we will all recoup that via the cheaper-than-Chapel Polar Bear bar

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

and my unborn child in Mutya's womb.

please bring blood test results kthanx

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Not to mention the in-less-of-a-stupid-place travel costs.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

I am now the proud owner of a Zones 1 to 3 travelcard. I care not about these travel costs any longer! Let's have a FAP in Hammersmith! Ha ha!

I have a funny feeling I'm doing something with Emsk on the 24th March and I've been kind of avoiding FAPs lately anyway.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

You so do not. Mutya is bearing the SPAWN OF POP ITSELF.

WELL, DUH. Why do you think I chose her?

24th is 3 days after my birthday. This gives me ideas. My favourite no. 1 is probably 'Billie Jean', but any ridiculously danceable no.1 will do - any ideas besides 'Setting Sun', people?

― BARMS, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Cher - Believe

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

If you follow that with 'Sound Of The Underground', your tongue becomes a paperweight.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Setting Sun has yet to be played at Club Popular unless i'm mistaken

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

please let it stay that way!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

I'll tell you, that's just too bad.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

just for you Lex i will request 'Some Might Say'

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I mean, blimey. £2! That destroys all the fun of it, doesn't it?
-- Masonic Cathedral (masonicboo...), March 8th, 2005 4:47 PM. (kate) (later)

aw kate i'll pay for your entry fee if you like

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

if you buy me a drink

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

One week to go.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

hurrah!

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

TAKE TAKE TAKE TAKE T-T-TA-T-T TAKE TAKE

― Craig David (blueski), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Woo, I might come if I'm not in Aylesbury! (Clearly I would like to come INSTEAD of being in Aylesbury but that's not an option.) And if someone gives me a bed for the night.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Liz, take your dad. It seems to be catching on, this bring-yer-parents thing.

My wife will be giving birth that day.

Can someone get me a CD?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

I shall be there and I shall also be using the MEGABUS for the first time!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 17 March 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Archel, I have a spare room with a mattress, or a sofabed in the living room, if you need a place. I am in Tottenham, which isn't the most convenient, I admit.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

My wife will be giving birth that day.

can you tell me the football results for next week?

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

It is an elective Caesarean, Sven, you have to book in and everything. The only mystery is how long they will take to do the two people who are before us in the queue. But yes, the Chelsea collapse begins next week, and I can feel it in my waters that Derby are going to do well.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 18 March 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

i handed out flyers to strangers last night!

one was a friend of a friend, so that was easy. but his friends were super excited, and loved the flyer. one said 'i wish this was right now, i'd so go there'

in other news, he told me that the upstairs at the polar bear is known as 'three floors of gay mayhem'. wow.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

What if your waters break?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm unreasonably excited by this. I've never been to one of your crazy popnights before.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Gay mayhem? Well, there go my chances of pulling. :-(

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

That was the upstairs. The pub is apparently under new management (hence they're looking for new nights) and is moving back to a mixed clientele, rather than an exclusively gay one. Clearly a pop night with Kylie and the Pet Shop Boys on its badges is exactly what's needed to shake off the Polar Bear's gay image.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

This calls for a late great Tommy Vance-style ROCK NIGHT

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Were there any Shoegazing number ones?

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

No. Bryan Adams was number one all the way through the shoegazing boom.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Funny you should say that Marcello! If we get the nod for more Poptimisms then the next one may well indeed be some kind of, um, Rocktimism event.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

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homophobe

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 26 March 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

Cripes. Apropos of not much, Mr Swygart is awfully gorgeous!

Great pix Ken!

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 26 March 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

proper punters off the street we didn't know and everything! Enjoying themselves!

um, not true actually. anyone you didn't recognise was either a work colleague of mine (ie ppl in background of pics above) or an ljer...

good pics btw ken :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Saturday, 26 March 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

I think there were two late-doors real punters actually. They were in the corner with the late arriving Research Int'l mob but they weren't with with them.

I wasn't ruined either. Though £2 a pint! At one of our club nights! That I should live to see this day etc etc.

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 26 March 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

i was pretty pissed, it has to be said. also poorly shoulder wasn't helped by drunken dj shape throwing...

the guiness was still 2.95, but there you go

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Saturday, 26 March 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

£5 a bottle of wine omg wtf

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 26 March 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

wonderful photos Ken!

this New Cheap Booze will mean utter ruin in the future for our Fridays...

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 26 March 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

those photos are so hottt.

― lundy fastnet irish sea (cis), Saturday, 26 March 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

#3 double vodkas. Oh, the ruin.

Money cannot buy you love. And money cannot buy you happiness. But it sure can buy you a LOT of donuts!

(Everything I ever needed to know about life, I learned from Homer Simpson.)

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Those donuts roXored. Esp the one with LEMON CURD in it!

― RickyT (RickyT), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

oh no, I missed the lemon curd donut! I love lemon curd! but nevertheless: losing my Krispy Kreme virginity was a treat and a half.

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Alex, what did you DO to the donuts? Omg I hope I didn't eat the ones you'd soiled...

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

orginal glazed, innit

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 26 March 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Ken, remember when you got locked in the back are and no one noticed? And Marianna let you back in and you were all dishevelled? Good times!

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Saturday, 26 March 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Hey! I'll have you know that I was locked in the back room too. And after we banged on the door for AGES whilst you lot ignored us and danced, I adventured through about 1km of secret hallways, ended up outside in some other Chinatown alley, walked back to the Polar Bear and down to the club and to the door to let Ken back in. Good times!

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Saturday, 26 March 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I pretty much have no memory of what happened after that point though. Goddam £5 bottles of wine.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Saturday, 26 March 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

i don't even remember how i ended up in that place!!

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 26 March 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

LEMON CURD DONUT?!?!?

Now why couldn't I have that administered to me during The Spy's dental inspection?

― kate at suzy's (suzy), Saturday, 26 March 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

That first photo of me is probably the prettiest I have ever looked. Thank you very much. I do so wish I could work out how I made my sternum glow fuchsia, though. I imagine that could come in handy one day.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 26 March 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

those are the least hott photos (of me) ever

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Sunday, 27 March 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

WBS = Brian Molko (in a good way)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 27 March 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

WBS has the same glasses as me.

The idea of £5 bottles of wine rather than £5 pints of Guinness has strengthened my resolve to make a real trip to London for the first time in about four years.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I do so wish I could work out how I made my sternum glow

Stevem probably licked it.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

And those are nice pics of you, Swygart!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I carried both Abby and Swygart to the dancefloor at different points. Abby is notably lighter than Swygart.

Mutya had her baby too! Now I just have to arrange the paternity trial of the century...

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

my friend T really enjoyed it (and got home safely)

she sez hi to everyone

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 27 March 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

i've finally posted my pictures from that night...

go here to see them: http://tinyurl.com/49rf8

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

hilarious

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

That one of me is TERRIFYING. I look like I've escaped from some early 90s film on the dangers of raving.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Plz have Poptimism sometime between June 20 and July 2 kthxbye.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

camera flash in dim club is VERY BAD THING

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

roxy i don't know how likely that is sadly because the FT mob will be at Glastonbury :(

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

til july?!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Sorry roxy - next 3 dates are 5th May, 9th June and 7th July.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Tom did you get e-mail re fax? got time?

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Aw, boo. I'm going to have to figure a way to stay a week later for Poptimism and Ned.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

someone should change her flight schedules to stay for longer!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

haha xpost!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

We could have her kidnapped.

― Alix with an i? (alix), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

let's talk, alix.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

If somehow I had enough money and a cooler boss.

Can we sell my boss?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Well, I saw an episode of CSI where there was a kidnapping, so I think we should use that as a starting point. My first move would be to go home and watch CSI tonight, for further tips.

― Alix with an i? (alix), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Steve - when does the handover have to happen? I can fax them from Seattle if I have to I suppose!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

When is Ned coming? Will there be a trig bro this year?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

If somehow I had enough money and a cooler boss.
Can we sell my boss?

you may have to fix her first before selling her on ebay.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

thirteen years pass...

2005! Did ILX invent the word “poptimism”?

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 17 September 2018 11:19 (six years ago)

De Subjectivisten once again blazed the trail.

Qua Pet Shop Boys vind ik vooral Behaviour en dat tussenplaatje met "Domino Dancing" erg goed. Juist "It's a Sin" is het nummer dat ik echt niet meer terug kan horen (die bloedserieusheid! Afrekenen met zijn katholieke opvoeding, hou toch op).
En Martijn Grooten noemt dingen als K3 en "Asereje". Zoals ik al zei: als hit-pop 'fout' is kan ik nog wel even doorgaan. Maar daar zijn we in deze tijd van poptimism en zo toch al lang overheen? [zei hij, terwijl "I promised myself" van A*Teens door de speakers kwam].

― Vasquesz, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 07:07 (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― nashwan, Monday, 17 September 2018 11:22 (six years ago)

Of course we did. Will be back here when you guys find out Subs also invented 'Vet geluid'.

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 17 September 2018 11:25 (six years ago)

ILX was def the first place to realise that the appropriate venue for debate of poptimism was ~~in the streets~~ in the basement of what has since become Ku Bar.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 17 September 2018 11:51 (six years ago)

As the thread that launched a thousand tepid thinkpieces this is all quite the time capsule for a lot of reasons.

― Matt DC, Monday, 17 September 2018 17:40 (six years ago)

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