Post-Christmas Escape: Madchen, hStencil and many more would like to have a quiet pint or two with you on 27th December at the Foundry in Shoreditch, Swinging London Town

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Any takers? I go back to Glasgow the next day, so it'll be my one and only night out. I will phone the pub in advance this time to check they'll be open. Speaking of which, any pub recommendations?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh poo, I'm still in Portsmouth on the 27th.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

hmmm... haven't been to an FAP for ages. Might be up for it, I'll be back later with fershers.

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Isn't HStencil having a FAP on the 27th at The Foundry?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

yeah meet us there madchen!!!!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Are you? For some reason I thought that was the 28th but OK! Good.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Is there a thread? I can't find it.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm in Glasgow :(

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Damn, I'll swap ya!

― Kate Classic (kate), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

there isn't really a thread, perhaps this one will do!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

please madchen 27th foundry yeh.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

wat es dei foudnry?

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

it's a bar

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

I hear it's quite nice there. Is it near Waterloo?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

it's on the northern line so could be as little as 20 mins door to door from waterloo. i wonder if it's the right branch? i will look.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

wrong branch

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

I could go see my sister in Colliers Wood for a bit first, maybe.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

yeh wrong. but the 76 or the 243 will take you to old st from waterloo, but it is SO IRRITATING they make them stop at DIFFERENT STOPS and not only different ones but ones on DIFFERENT ROADS so ARGH you have to choose which one you want before going to get it rather than getting which one comes first argh!

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

I will be with gurl but I might be draggable if you all promise not to be scary.

Dog Latin, why are you bringing freshers? They will get drunk and vomit.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

[crap]

― Have a beer with Fear, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

we r no scary. colliers wood, madchen? if you go there you'll never come back! it is deepest darkest morocco innit. my bro is coming to this too, stevie shaw sometime of this parish but i think he r weaned himself off.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

does anyone know how late the foundry is open? i get back on the evening of the 27th so could maybe come by on my way home.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

1. Could somebody with supermodpowers put hstencil in the title of this thread cos it's only fair like?
2. You have checked the Foundry will be open, haven't you?
3. Yay!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

aw, i'm away on the 27th. :( people better come to the pub crawl as well (if poss)!

― baby i'm waiting (cis), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

sorry, gig to go to in brixton. actually, why not fap there? it's at the windmill, and occasional ilXor Catwank is in the band.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

i might be already booked on the 27th, i'll see how things go :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Yes, exactly, fie, fie, Emsk, I am going down to Brixton to see Ver Kissing Time at Ver Windmill. (Sorry, Madchen!) But I will do my best to be at the pubcrawl. If only for the badger Golden Glory...

― Kate Classic (kate), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

so, the madchen and the stencil faps are...the same fap?

at the foundry, yes?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

Shoreditch?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

thread title changed but not so as to make t lennox look silly.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

if the foundry is not open late enough we can have an aftershow at my hoose.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Damn, and the first Kissing Time gig that is near my house, and I will end up back in Hackney at yours. Typical!

― The Hills Are Alive With Celibate Cries (kate), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

yebbut so will teh kissing time! you should get a lift up, and make 'em fap.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

Yebbut they'll have amps, and more annoyingly, English with them.

― The Hills Are Alive With Celibate Cries (kate), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

What kind of time are we thinking about convening? I am vaguely wondering about some pre-Foundry Wenlock action, to steel me against the discomfort of the Foundry.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

sounds like a good idea - if I get out of work I may join you for anaesthatisation

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

My immediate post-Xmas plans are less than firm at the moment, but I hope to make this. A proper pub first would suit me too, if I don't have to be in Ilford instead.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

english?? now i am confused.

if we get to the foundry earlyish maybe we can get that bit that's like a separate room but not. i dunno what i mean by earlyish though.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Yes for nabbing that little closed off area early. Also yes for possible pre-Foundry Wenlock Action because I wuv the Wenlock. Will they look at me funny if I order four enormous black pudding sandwiches in the evening?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

i'm sending wiley along too.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

wat es dei foudnry?
-- Carl Handwriting (doglati...), December 20th, 2005 11:49 PM. (later) (link)
it's a bar

-- Porkpie (porkypi...), December 20th, 2005 11:50 PM. (later) (link)

One of London's best pubs

I'll be there,

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I decided long ago, Ed, that you and I have very different ideas on what constitutes a good pub. That's if I have any ideas on this matter, which I may not have. I hope my expectations are confounded, or indeed confoundryed, by this case.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

do you all work for the foundary? because you are doing a great job at making me want to go and see what all the fuss is about.

if i ever start a drinking establishment i'm so going to start a "OH AM I A PUB OR A BAR" marketing campagne.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

It gets no pints on Fancy a Pint.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Fancy A Pint rather miss the point... or maybe that's the point. Hah.

Either way it's a great pub.

― The Hills Are Alive With Celibate Cries (kate), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Yes but the utterly abysmal George and Dragon up the road gets a full five pints = Fancy A Pint is talking out of its bottom.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

i'm so confused.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Please stop this 'pub or bar' madness. Everyone has their mind made up.

The George & Dragon is alright.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Don't worry stence, the difference between a pub and a bar is usually in the lighting. Indicating, the desire of the punters wish to be seen or not seen. As the case may be.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

i'm so confused.

pip pip, old chap. Don't be letting the needle-laggers get your chipshops up.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 72 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Damn, Emsk must have been reading this under my login last night. Or I was posting under hers. I don't know. I wasn't even drunk.

I got confused for a minute there with all the snow, but it doesn't look like it's going to be a problem now. It's so annoying, as I'm still in Hackney and it would be really easy to go from here to the Foundry, but I have to go home and check on my house (I think it will get lonely if I don't go and see it) and then go see the Kissing Time at the Windmill.

― ALL YOUR BASE NOW BELONG TO SYCORAX!!! (kate), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

CHances are it'll still be there, it won't disappear Mr Benn stylee.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

You never know. It might get in a huff and storm off. It is my house, after all.

― ALL YOUR BASE NOW BELONG TO SYCORAX!!! (kate), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

I've got quite attached to it though - anyone know where I can buy a full-length military coat in London? Wobs money burning a hole in my pocket and all...

there's a great shop called Laurence Corner, just north of Warren Street tube, which may well be able to satiate your need, Matt DC.

So...er, I'm a bit confused about all this. So Kate, I'm def going to see the kissing time in brixton, but i'm happy to turn up 30 seconds before they hits the stage - any idea what time they're on?

my thinking is, meet at the foundry at 6ish, then bugger off to brixton at, i dunno, half 7, and then maybe come back to hackney/kilburn later, or perhaps stay at my mate's in brixton as i have to pop in to see her sometime today.

emsk? kate? timing? thoughts? CONFUSION!

ps. good to see prmlscrm kebabs is still around! i'm sure i coined that phrase years ago, around the same time as emsk coined saladspies. we deserve PRIZES.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

i think i only posted as me. i don't think kate posted as me. odd. chuck, i think all of us coined that prmlscrm kebabs thing simultaneously cos i have a distinct memory of saying it then lmao for the next six hours and saying it to anyone i could find. we were trying to figure out what time the kissing time are on and we think it might be 9. but not sure. check the windmill's site...

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

Windmill website is teh useless for timings.

But assuming they're supporting, and there are only two bands, and doors are 8pm (all reasonable assumptions), they'll be on shortly before 9 I guess.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

just texted you some help, charlie.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

can someone please email me their mobile number in case I somehow get lost cos oi'm from dar contray.

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

done

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Sorry - I'm not going to be coming out. My depression has very much got the better of me again. I hope I'll see people on Thursday instead.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

London ladies, get out there! Madchen is the only woman in the pub (apart from teh barmaid).

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm on my way from snowy Palace... Will be bringing Gareth's records but, in the light of the weather, I'm not going to risk hauling the small cache of Xmassy things I have for certain ILXors across town. Later in the week, perhaps.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm sad I couldn't stay to meet stence, and to see Jones the steam too.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

btw - reporting back, The Foundry is most definitely a bar, and a nasty one at that.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

The Foundry is too fucking cold. Especially in December. Get one heater.

On the other hand, I met four ilxors for the first time tonight. There's a lot to be said for shaking up the FAP formula every so often. Lovely to meet all of you.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Did girls turn up, or was madchen left to be all girlified on her ownsome?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

There were girls there all along, Madchen was in the wrong bar ;)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

Was it the Steelworks from the Simpsons?

I went along, but probably too late. I walked past the Foundry without noticing, and by the time I walked back, 20 minutes later, it was definitely too late.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

So did anyone get photos?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

i did. but i need to get them developed.

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

I have several photos containing people whose views on having their photos on the internet I don't know.

http://static.flickr.com/9/78369731_523ffdbf71_o.jpg

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

gareth's visage, is of course no strager to the modern internet.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

i like the way he's coordinating with your coat ed.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Sorry I didn't make it up, but as it turned out, the band that the Kissing Time were supporting ended up not making it, so I ended up having to do an impromptu solo set as their support act. Much fun was had. Much booze was drunk. The Windmill has stopped even pretending that they close so we drank until way too late in the night.

TKT were really very very good, though. And the CD that they gave me is AMAZING. I'm not just saying that coz they're mates, it actually surprised me how good it was (that really sounds like a bit of a backhanded compliment but it's not).

― ALL YOUR BASE NOW BELONG TO SYCORAX!!! (kate), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

oh bugger, i could've stayed longer at the windmill? i can't even remember why i left. i didn't get a cd, dammit.

nice to meet some people at the foundry anyway. fun night.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Smashing evening but, er, nasty lavs...

http://static.flickr.com/42/78543457_62c025c75b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/38/78543456_e47162bd2c.jpg

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

That's a better class of graffiti, from the animal rights activism to the deconstructionist gender-bending of "S/HE IS HER/E".

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

the foundry bogs are the stuff of legend! c'mon, you have to admit those pics make them look pretty cool.

and i've just noticed my ex-girlfriend's ex-band seem to have passed through at some point...ha.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Your ex-gf was in The Monkees?!? WOW!

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Momus is right about the graffiti, actually. The lavs were pretty unpleasant though. And the chairs reminded me of furniture in neglected student digs.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Legends ain't what they used to be...

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

it is a bar aimed at a very wide demographic:

art students

people who used to be art students

people who want to be art students

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Fun night had be me anyways - nice to see people who I've not seen for a while, and meet people who I'd never met before. All good stuff and more.

As for whether the Foundry is actually any good or not . . . well, it strikes me as the stuff of legend. The problem with legends is that for those unaware of said legendry status, it might come across as a bit crap. Maybe it's one of those places that it takes time to form an opinion on. Nice organic lager, tho.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

foundry sounds horrid

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 29 December 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

i liked it. i thought it was good.

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Thursday, 29 December 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

heh. sorry i missed this. porkpie what is your organic beef with art students?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 29 December 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

They don't buy sausage rolls.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 29 December 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

well, there is that, but generally I don't have one. But I am not part of that demographic am I? I found the place scruffy, dirty, cold,the toilets absolutely bogging and the beer wasn't all that (I only tried the organic bitter mind you) and the music was, a couple of songs excepted rubbish :o(

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 29 December 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

But apart from that, it rocked.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 29 December 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeh, it was bloody freezing. I don't mind the scruffiness, but the chill turned it from a potentionally interesting vaguely pretentious pub into a student flat in which nobody could afford 50p for the meter.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 29 December 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

the music was, a couple of songs excepted rubbish

You missed J0sh G3nn3t tickling the ivories. I kept my three layers on the whole time I was there.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 29 December 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Hello! It was nice to meet everyone new and to be surprised by the non-ilx friends I didn't realise were going to be there. That bar was horrid, but had some OK graffiti:

"Fuck a woman, make her happy"
"Not the way I do it, sonny"

― stet (stet), Thursday, 29 December 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Fucks sake, he's been playing on my computer again.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 29 December 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

ho! the last two lines and sign-off of yr 11.37 post will make for a WONDERFUL out-of-context quote at some point in the future.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 29 December 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I just read that and thought it *was* from stet and also roffled at his bravery at posting something so destined for out-of-context use (even though I know the two of you keep posting as each other, I also though stet might have gone down to London).

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 29 December 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

Mädchen did you get a txt from Alix re Friday?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 29 December 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

wasn't the point of the place that it was supposed to be a bit rustic and distressed? The beer wasn't bad, and quite cheap too. And I'm sure Drummond must run it for practically nothing, considering it's location and prices etc.

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

nobody introduced me to dog latin. : (

had a great time otherwise, tho. about to head out to holborn in a bit.

― hstencilinium in londonium (hstencil), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

waht is Porkpie talking about, the organic bitter was marvellous stuff! But it was far too cold in there. And yes, this is the first time I've seen ILX since the FAP.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 8 January 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Mark, I had just come from a place that did very good beer indeed, that stuff was so meh in comparison.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 8 January 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

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