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i think this is slowly becoming my favourite pub in london, though it doesn't seem to quite meet approval here. it makes its own beer, which is pretty good, even if it is called Eco Warrior (actually, whats so wrong with calling a beer that anyway?), its got a nice ramshackle feel to it, and some good things happen there.

perhaps you like it too

or, maybe you don't?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 11 December 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

haha i almost worked there

― 100%, Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

what happened?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

One of my favourite London Pubs and certainly my favourite so called 'trendy' pub. It's definately a pub and not a bar.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

how late do they serve drinks now? the location is pretty untoppable, perched up there right at the crux of that intersection with old st. it's a commanding spot.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

i like the foundry lots and lots. it's nice and scruffy and has art stuff downstairs and excellent graffiti in the bogs and i can afford drinks there. hurrah for the foundry!

― emsk ( emsk), Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

talked to beardy dude and he told me to come in next week but my lazy ass said fuck it

― 100%, Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

i also drew faces all over the downstairs walls w/ a sharpie once while very very drunk

― 100%, Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

and i think theres a gelandweave.blogspot.com tag in the bathroom

― 100%, Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

nice ppl tho

― 100%, Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

i think i saw that, but forgot.

beardy guy, is he the one with blonde hair?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

brown hair, wouldve been last november i think?? too far to commute!!

― 100%, Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

haha i think this is the first london thread ive ever contributed to

― 100%, Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

Search: Eco Warrior, worm lady, cute girls.

Destroy: DJs hitting Beach Boys records with a hammer. Mills and Boon novels.

I didn't know there was a downstairs. We should go back.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

downstairs is the best part!!!!!!!!!!

― 100%, Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

Also creepy dismembered baby doll thing hanging from the ceiling in the corner.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

It's the old bank vault they have art down there.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

i saw someone in a red planet tshirt in there on friday night.

i think i might be meeting a couple people in there on weds, if anyone fancies it

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

right next to it - http://gelandweave.blogspot.com/2004/12/buy-gw-brand-clothes-at-great-society.html

― 100%, Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

The homebrew motorised CCTV cameras on the ceiling give me cause to believe (or hope) that Bill Drummond is living a Howard Hawks existence somewhere upstairs.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

they ran out of eco warrior on friday. they had something called east kent goldings instead, it reminded me of tono bungay

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

At gareth o'clock?

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

5 past

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

dont bother looking for those clothes now we took em back

― 100%, Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

I could be tempted by Wednesday, I think.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 11 December 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's a pub. I like it okay though.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Sunday, 11 December 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

i really like the foundry

i had the best drink OF MY LIFE there!!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Monday, 12 December 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

It is definitely a bar and not a pub, in the same way that student bars are not pubs.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 December 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

It is one of the most pubby pubs in London.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 12 December 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

> It's the old bank vault they have art down there.

i did wonder about this - the room i saw those laptop bands in had a big metal turntable thing built into the floor. i figured that the fact it was called The Foundry was a clue as to why.

they were playing joy division and siouxie upstairs when i was there. somehow i don't think that's too rare an occurance.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 12 December 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

it's always really cold

― barbarian cities (jaybob3005), Monday, 12 December 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

The paintings downstairs at the moment all seem on a 'heavy metal' tip.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 12 December 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh my lord, this used to be my local when I lived in Hoxton. The people who run it are very nice indeed. It's owned by the KLF, isn't it? the deal is that anyone who wants can do an art show there, but they have to donate one of their pieces to the Foundry's permanent collection?

A wonderful place indeed. We had the GirlFAP in their bank managers office. It's full of Mills and Boon novels.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad it's there but my problem with the place is that I've never managed to get very comfortable in there.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 12 December 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

You gotta nab the office (comfy couches) or the big scary spotted sofa in the basement. Better yet, is drinking on the benches outside, because you can watch Hoxton go by.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

superhuge props to the foundry, probably my most consistently favourite pub (PUB) in London. I had my 25th birthday party there and it was lovely, althought i cried a lot. nice beer, sensibly priced, lots to look at, ever-changing "installation" art downstairs (they once had a pitch-black room that you were meant to stand in with the door shut and listen to all the scary noises), friendly staff, ridiculous DJing opportunities upstairs...oh it's lovely. up there with the golden heart.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, WRT the actual vault (where they have the art/spooky noises, etc.) apparently they have SEVEN SECOND REVERB in there. Which is great for soundartists or anything.

But the best thing about the Foundry is the Make The Van Reversal Platform Spin Round And Round Until The Neighbours Complain Game.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

It's a bar! It's so a bar! God, you people, it could have a sign outside saying "I am a bar now" and you would still call it a pub if you liked it.

I do like it, except for last Wednesday when the music was so unutterably crap we had to leave. A lot of it was due to the rubbishness of the PA though.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

It is definitely a bar.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

It is a bar, but it's an American style neighbourhood bar, hence the confusion with pubs.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Monday, 12 December 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Definately a modern pub in a way that a wetherspoons isn't

― Ed (dali), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

why? the 'making their own beer' seems like the only real pub aspect of it.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

It doesn't make it's own beer. That's done at the pitfield brewery on pitfield street.

I mark it as a pub as it has the community aspect of pubs that bars lack and a certain lived in homeliness (as in public house) which divides out pubs from other drinking establishments.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

presumably many bars in other countries (which don't really traditionally have pubs in the British model) have that same youthy, community aspect though. it reminds me more of a trendy, arty continental bar as a result.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

So the best pub in London. I was even there TWICE last week. The painting in the basement are AWESOME on a heavy metal / 90's rave flyer tip.
Best toilet graf: either the misspelt Baader Meinhof thing or "is you enjoyed school, you'll love work".
I would say it's a pub as it's not open late it it has 'locals' / dodgy regulars etc.
I reckon the music jounalists on this thread are scared of pubs (because places like the Griffin / Ten Bells / Old Blue are cool now and they need to be ABOVE THAT) so they need call it a bar because they wouldn't lower themselves to going to a pub.

― debord (Debord), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

You're no doubt correct. I bet they also couldn't keep up with being in a pub ONCE a week, never mind TWICE. Losers!

It is also, definitely, a bar.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

The Foundry Pub in Northeast St. Paul is awesome! My friend owns it! You should all come sometime!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

MUSIC JOURNALISTS?! WHERE?!

so they need call it a bar because they wouldn't lower themselves to going to a pub.

i think it's more the other way around. people seem reluctant to refer to it as a bar because of the connotations there. i mean, a bar! in Hoxditch! the horror! but if they call it a pub all's well.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

mind you everyone seems to hate the Bricklayers and that's a pub.

then you've got bars with pub names (The Legion) and probably pubs with bar names (the scuzzy one under the tower block opposite Foundry?)...

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

I think that may have been directed at me Steve, despite the fact most of the people on this thread have seen me drunk in pubs on many an occassion and I have no idea who Mr Debord is.

The Bricklayers gets full too quickly, but it's far better than the weird orange-lit room above The Barley Mow.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

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yeh great idea re 27th! let's get there early so we can get that room bit and the cat please. also omg the golden heart yes! luvly in winter due to fire, crazy noisy lady owns the place, we saw trac(e? have forgotten)y emin doing press-ups in there once.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

Argh, why do I think I'm doing something on the 27th...

― Kate Classic (kate), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Bastards! Hey y'all -- The Kissing Time is playing the Windmill in Brixton on 27 December

Divided loyalties... last time I went to NedFAP instead of their gig. Stence, can't you come down to Brixton and then have Foundry FAP on the 28th?

― Kate Classic (kate), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

I am happy with the 27th as long as that's not pub crawl day. Which I don't think it is.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

east kent goldings

― calderdale in the 70s (gareth), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

i think its a bar and its the only place i can think to go to in shoreditch.

dont remember eco-warrior, they used to have a different organic lager, possibly just called "organic lager"?! its been quite a while since ive been there.

they used to have "piano tuesday" where you could turn up and play the piano on concrete blocks.

also, its very easy to put a night on there, they couldnt give a fuck what you do.

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

eco-warrior is a pale ale not a lager. The larger is imaginatively named organic lager.

Are you back in UK, Ambrose?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

they used to have "piano tuesday" where you could turn up and play the piano on concrete blocks.

this still happens, i think.

also, kate otm re 27th - go see the kissing time! i shall be there.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

a larger lager. ed yes i am, will text @ the weekend.

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

i may drink a pale ale, tonite

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

If you're there tonight, what time will you be arriving? I'm still at work and could do with a brief pint...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

I want to come!

― Klaus Darko (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm still at work. I may stick my head in and see if you're there on the way to the bus stop.

Are you visiting your parents for Christmas Adam?

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

ah, spontaneous fapping, the way it should be?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Are you visiting your parents for Christmas Adam?

No, Jews don't like Xmas for some reason. I'm going to Chicago and Indiana instead! :)

― Klaus Darko (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Will be setting off after a bite to eat. What time popping by people?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

*slaps self round head for being daft*

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

dont go on a sunday night. unless you like poetry

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 11:55 (twenty years ago)

AAAAAHHHHH, was the Worm Lady there? I love the Worm Lady.

― She's In Parties (kate), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

i might drop by tomorrow evening, for a late summers ale.

― -- (688), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

How late will you be there?

Might drop by on the way back from BBC filming which is happening nearby.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

I have a job interview round there, but I'll probably go home and return at gareth o'clock.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

Is shall ask them when we can blay psychedelic folk shoegazing space rock as well.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

It's 2 minutes from where I work but I'm not working tomoroow

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

the foundry is featured in Britain's Next Top Model, in that they use it as one of the backdrops that they put the girls' pictures over (all of which seem to be like 200 yds max from old st tube for some reason)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

DON'T FORGET THE PROG!!!

I want to blast T.C. Lethbridge, oh yes.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

it's a pub :(

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

late consolation salvaged there

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

you stop that, right now

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

it's a pub

i missed this first time round

it's a pub

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, game's over.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

now i've made my contribution, yeah

so a pub it is then

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

such a bar, wtf

― rtccc (mwah), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

it's a pub, steve

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

i've not been to this bar for ages despite being as close to it as dadaismus. i'm more about Biddles on Lower Clapton Rd. near the portico.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

my g/f rates this place.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

or maybe she means the dragon bar. hmm.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

Hackney council last night approved plans to pull down the building which houses the much-loved if rather ramshackle space in Shoreditch close to the edge of the City, despite protests from the gallery's founders that it performs a vital artistic function in the London borough.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/03/foundry-gallery-set-to-close

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 4 February 2010 11:17 (sixteen years ago)

I've never been there, although I did try to meet some friends for a drink there last year, only they got there before I did and thought it was really scary and rough and called me saying can we go somewhere else.

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 4 February 2010 11:20 (sixteen years ago)

oh fuck that :(

― jabba hands, Thursday, 4 February 2010 11:21 (sixteen years ago)

Feels like such a shame. The Foundry was like a little corner of madness in a world gone decent...

― dog latin, Thursday, 4 February 2010 11:22 (sixteen years ago)

Hope they destroy that Banksy before anyone can "save" it.

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 4 February 2010 11:24 (sixteen years ago)

Banksy mural is being saved by the developers...

― spay or neuter your blue dog (suzy), Thursday, 4 February 2010 11:55 (sixteen years ago)

oh fuck that

― jabba hands, Thursday, 4 February 2010 11:59 (sixteen years ago)

tears running down cheeks

― the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Thursday, 4 February 2010 12:01 (sixteen years ago)

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Admin/BkFill/Default_image_group/2010/2/4/1265242467826/Architectural-plan-to-rep-002.jpg

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 4 February 2010 12:43 (sixteen years ago)

Ugh. Natural light thief in a location that has very little of it.

Maybe they could rejig it as a tribute to this:

http://sp2.fotolog.com/photo/2/7/108/chicca_hope/1233175201759_f.jpg

― spay or neuter your blue dog (suzy), Thursday, 4 February 2010 12:47 (sixteen years ago)

never cared for this place (which is a/ a bar and b/ no more an "focal artistic space" than jaguar bleedin shoes) but it should probably have stayed if that's what's gonna replace it.

heh on the other hand the whole thing is pretty lol, i dunno. i want a giant red lipstick to come out the top at night.

― r|t|c, Thursday, 4 February 2010 15:31 (sixteen years ago)

like I want a lightsaber beam to emerge from the BT Tower

― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 4 February 2010 16:15 (sixteen years ago)

it looks like godzilla dropped his thimble

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 February 2010 16:17 (sixteen years ago)

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