East Dulwich pubs ? intolerable music volume

[Fitzgeraldo]

Many thanks for recent comments. Wandered down LL yesterday (Saturday) pm.

EDT - quite busy and noisy with large TV showing football ? so no thanks!

The Bishop ? lots of loud music

The Palmerston ? intimidated by the clinking of cutlery and the apparent hauteur of the staff

Meet and Liquor ? I?m much too old

Franklin?s ? nice reasonably priced pint of Guinness and glass of wine for ?er indoors. Room to sit and music pleasant and not obtrusive.

[DulwichFox]

Fitzgeraldo Wrote:

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> Many thanks for recent comments. Wandered down LL

> yesterday (Saturday) pm.

EDT - quite busy and noisy with large TV showing

> football ? so no thanks!

> The Bishop ? lots of loud music

> The Palmerston ? intimidated by the clinking of

> cutlery and the apparent hauteur of the staff

> Meet and Liquor ? I?m much too old

> Franklin?s ? nice reasonably priced pint of

> Guinness and glass of wine for ?er indoors. Room

> to sit and music pleasant and not obtrusive.

Can be busy with Big Games but much of the time TV sound is not on.

Just background music. and not in large bar to the left. and not always on in bar to the right.

DulwichFox

[philosophie]

I 100% agree with this. Loud bars on a Friday night when you might fancy a dance are one thing. Pubs, where you meet up.with groups of friends for a chinwag, are another. I don't meet in any of the pubs along the lane now as I just can't hear a bloody thing... It's a shame as I miss that lovely sound of lively chatter on a post-work evening. Would rather hear that than some crappy bass lines.

[Robert_F]

I tend to think that while the pubs in ED are all technically 'pubs', they are each catering to a different market.

The Bishop - basically more of a 'bar' with younger crowd

The Palmerston - effectively a restaurant. Wouldn't really choose it for a casual beer

Franklins - combination of pub / restaurant

EDT - more of a traditional all-round pub with relaxed atmosphere

The Lordship - kind of now a wedding venue as closed for functions most weekends

Great Exhibition - similar to EDT in my experience, although weekend DJ brings more of a Bishop-type vibe

[Robert Poste's Child]

As I get older I can't help noticing a lot of ageism going on. I don't mean any of the comments above, but that underlying, unspoken commercial assumption that everything - entertainment, fashion, even financial services - has to be for younger people first. There was a point in the early noughties when you couldn't go to any kind of event without it having DJs. My social life revolves around cafes these days.

[Sue]

Fitzgeraldo Wrote:

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> Meat Liquor ? I?m much too old

Ah, come on, I'm ancient and I like it in there, and one of the reasons is they play good music, so - unusually - I don't care if the music is loud!

The drinks are expensive though. I wouldn't go in there just for a drink.

ETA: When I say "good music", I mean of course, music that I like :))

[JohnL]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> As I get older I can't help noticing a lot of

> ageism going on. I don't mean any of the comments

> above, but that underlying, unspoken commercial

> assumption that everything - entertainment,

> fashion, even financial services - has to be for

> younger people first. There was a point in the

> early noughties when you couldn't go to any kind

> of event without it having DJs. My social life

> revolves around cafes these days.

Once you get to 50 you go back to young things again .... sometimes :)

[DulwichFox]

JohnL Wrote:

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> Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> -----

> > As I get older I can't help noticing a lot of

> > ageism going on. I don't mean any of the

> comments

> > above, but that underlying, unspoken commercial

> > assumption that everything - entertainment,

> > fashion, even financial services - has to be

> for

> > younger people first. There was a point in the

> > early noughties when you couldn't go to any

> kind

> > of event without it having DJs. My social life

> > revolves around cafes these days.

>

> Once you get to 50 you go back to young things

> again .... sometimes :)

Come on John.. Pubs have to turn up the music when you are in mate..

Otherwise no one would be able to hear it. Lol ;-)

Foxy

[JohnL]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Come on John.. Pubs have to turn up the music when

> you are in mate..

> Otherwise no one would be able to hear it. Lol

> ;-)

>

> Foxy

Well everyone tells me so even when I disagree so it seems like it :) and I always had to recite Corinthians II at junior school (as I was the loudest)

[Nicholas]

Well Robert I?m afraid it is about getting older I feel the same as you. ED has never really been known as a lively place, I think it?s trying to be something it?s not! Nothing wrong with louder music Fri/Sat in the right environment.