The Medusa Fora

Hello fellow Lundannna's

Where we boozing before the show this year? Same place as last (canterbury arms) or.. somewhere different...

Up to ye.

Erm... does this apply to the 17th or 18th or both?

Possibly Thrice if we're lucky.

Thrice would be nice...

though once in London is probably all I'll manage.

A few of us have already agreed to go for a munch in Nandos opposite the Academy on the 17th. Will be happy to make it for a pre-gig pint in the Canterbury Arms afterwards to wash down that Peri-Peri chicken.

Beisty wrote:A few of us have already agreed to go for a munch in Nandos opposite the Academy on the 17th. Will be happy to make it for a pre-gig pint in the Canterbury Arms afterwards to wash down that Peri-Peri chicken.

Funny enough in 04 we did exactly the same as above.

Do you think the Canterbury is the best boozer around there?

Wouldn't know about that but Nando's is godly. Didn't know there was one that close to the Academy.

In every effort to prove to Niall that you don't need 5 pages to arrange a meet I can't help but join in on this:

Nando's is gorgeous..

how about we all feck the booze and overdose on the 'godly' chicken instead?






I'm joking, of course.

That might not be a terrible idea after all, Nandos do sell booze.....

But to be honest I do not really know any of the pubs around the area. The Canterbury Arms was okay last year. When I got there some bloke at the door was advising us to go round to the back bar as the front was heaving. The back was a lot quiter and you could easily get served.

TOSCS - Nandos is straight opposite the Academy, you really cannot miss it.

Beisty wrote:That might not be a terrible idea after all, Nandos do sell booze.....

And that Portuguese beer goes down very nicely.

Beisty wrote:That might not be a terrible idea after all, Nandos do sell booze.....

But to be honest I do not really know any of the pubs around the area. The Canterbury Arms was okay last year. When I got there some bloke at the door was advising us to go round to the back bar as the front was heaving. The back was a lot quiter and you could easily get served.

TOSCS - Nandos is straight opposite the Academy, you really cannot miss it.

Quite bizarrely the first night last year there was a funeral in the back bar. Was an Irish funeral because when I was getting served I saw about 5-10 of my mum and dads friends. I went over and said hi - I felt like a right goon in my Pogues shirt.

I do like the canterbury... its just the wallpaper of the back bar that repulses me every time I see it! Urgh! I've been to so many 18ths and 21sts there.. every time I look it I think its rank.

It does however have a CPFC shirt up on the wall... so it can't be (that) bad!

Right...

Lets finalise it.

Those who fancy a beer before the gig and fancy say hello to fellow Medusans then go to The Canterbury Arms on Popes (ironic ) Street. We'll be in the back bar. I'll be thinking how disgusting the wall paper is.

Yes.. you can all thank me for being an organiser by buying me beer!

Ps. FAO DzM, Zuzana and MacRua - ANOTHER reason.. why I would rock as a Mod hehe

MissWalshy wrote:Lets finalise it.

Those who fancy a beer before the gig and fancy say hello to fellow Medusans then go to The Canterbury Arms on Popes (ironic ) Street. We'll be in the back bar.

Questions:
1. Is this for both (or all three) of the gig nights?
2. For non-locals, where exactly is the Canterbury Arms in relation to the Academy?
3. What time?
4. Is it possible to get a wheelchair in there?

1- All nights.
2- http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/info_pubbar_698.html this gives you all the info you need. even a street map.
3- What ever time people want to get there... last year I went straight after work. This year no work so whatever time I drag my bum there. on Monday I'll be dinning at The Ivy as a present from my friend for my 21st so excuse me if I'm a little late

4- No wheelchair access. No wheelchair toilets.

Bugger firehazard!

MissWalshy wrote:4- No wheelchair access. No wheelchair toilets.

Typical. I am well used to that sort of nonsense.
The feckin place needs to sort its act out.

firehazard wrote:

MissWalshy wrote:4- No wheelchair access. No wheelchair toilets.

Typical. I am well used to that sort of nonsense.
The feckin place needs to sort its act out.

Lugging an exceptionally heavy suitcase from Stratford to Nottingham by rail on Sunday, I got some inkling just how impossible some situations must still be for you. The journey requires a major change in Birmingham - no real problem if you are unencumbered but a nightmare otherwise. The obligatory trek from Birmingham Moor Street to Birmingham New Street is almost all uphill. Then when you finally lug yourself and baggage onto the correct platform in New Street (thanks to their complicated elevator system) you almost invariably get a "platform alteration" message, which requires you, your 40K of luggage, three stoical young mothers with baby carriages and one gent in a wheelchair, to take yet another crowded elevator to the correct platform. And THEN you have to figure out how to get onto the train.