Inside 72 - selling up

[Brendan]

That could well be the way forward for it. Stop trying to compete with the other pubs and try to pull in the inside 72 type crowd.

[RosieH]

I'd be there like a shot

[LordB]

Black clouds approaching......... The apocalypse is upon us. Wear a trilby.

[pez]

The drum's for sale.

someone buy that and stick a decent juke box in then we're away.

[Outside72a]

Dearest Patrons

I shall dearly miss your warm bottoms, witty chitty and clinky plunk. How I will long for greasy headrows and hair dye to be smeared upon my sides and back plates. Oh the times we have shared! For oncey time ago I was nowt morely than an after a kickings out plaything and confuzzle spot, ocasionally providing means of further flunged boozeltipping down necksies in lands afar aparts. But these few lasting months you have engathered me as a friend. A part of your throbbly fold. You have shared the intimatey's, the cackly chuckchuckles, buckloads of tears, a slighty thump or two and the rare splish of your emboozelment (Ha! What a drunkload i did get!). And now it seems it all muzzle come to large and teary ends. How I pains!

Well, I thank you and bide the lollyfolk a safe passage.

Thanking you again deary friends, Never has an old booze stop been happier.

You shall all be missed.

Farwell.

Outside72(a)

[Jah Lush]

I didn't know Stanley Unwin posted on here. Far outload man.

[Azul]

Is anyone coming for last drinks tonite ?

I'm planning to be there around 7/8ish and drag some people with me

[Azul]

want to finish off those Chimays before they finish with me

[Brendan]

I will be there this evening.... again.

Weird thing is I only used to frequent inside 72 about once or twice a month. Now that it is closing I have been there 3 time in the last 2 weeks.

[Moos]

Nice to raise a glass to I72 last night- Sean, Citizen, David good to see you guys, Brendan, Hannah - good to meet you in person! I hope the party continued long and well after my ridiculously early departure?

[huncamunca]

wer dont want no steenkin cocktails, we want proper beer

we can go to elsewhere for steenkin cocktails

[benjaminty]

I just left there ..... tear jerker or what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[flong]

Fuck yeah!

Best of luck to Steve and Bev in Porthcawl (being Welsh myself, I know they'll need it...)

I was there on the first night, and I was there on the last. And to hell with the Clapham wine bar that takes its place.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Had a few last orders in IST last night. Great to see the pub packed and giving Bev and Steve the testimonial they deserve. Spoke with Bev who was proud to have produced a place that meant much to so many different people.

I will miss it........so farewell then.

[Brendan]

There were still people in there when I went past on the bus on my way to work this morning.

[TobyJackson]

Hi Everyone

Just to answer a few of your questions:

*We will be bringing our own staff

*The walls are being painted (sorry)

*There is no curry or any other food for that matter (trust me, you don't want to try my cooking)

*There is however 2 for 1's. We do a daily happy hour which is 2 for 1 (5-8pm) on all of our cocktails and Peroni Rossa bottled beer

*We are aiming to open on Thursday

We will be a bit different to the other bars in the area so I hope you come in to give us a try.

Toby

[Azul]

Peroni?

where's my Chimay?

[Boris Karloff]

Definitely - good luck Steve and Bev

[barringtonottosmythe]

"bit different" probably sums it up perfectly. This area doesn't need any more drinking venues that are a "bit different". What's really different about the place? Slightly longer stems on the pina colada glasses perhaps? Or maybe your Tom Cruise worshipping Australian bar staff can spin a cocktail glass for 0.4 seconds longer than those down the road.

[MrBen]

God Bless Inside 72. RIP The best music playlist of any bar In London.

Adventure - sounds like a rehash of the old Be @ One I used to take bad dates to. With equally bad music and the worst Mojito on the planet.

Sorry - change is a constant but I'm finding it hard to get excited about a formulaic clapham cocktail bar. Especially given the independent gem of a bar it has replaced.

Toby - I have some questions:

- Will you be playing "ironic" Bon Jovi songs followed by horrific remix of Sweet Child of Mine and Destinys Child?

- Will you serve the worst Mojito in South London like Be @ One?

- How will people dance in there without losing body parts?

- Will you offer a rare and unexpecetd malt other than the Diageo Classic range?

Suprise me.

[seanmlow]

I was often confused as to how money was ever made here. Don't get me wrong - great bar, and I went there a lot.

However, I have often been in there for a session and not paid for one drink due to the very generous staff!

[Brendan]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Sorry - change is a constant but I'm finding it

> hard to get excited about a formulaic clapham

> cocktail bar. Especially given the independent gem

> of a bar it has replaced.

I have to say I agree.

Best of luck to the new place but I really can?t get excited about it unfortunately.

But that?s just me I have to be taken with a pinch of salt because I have a bad attitude and an inherent mistrust of anything mainstream. I blame my teachers, they probably didn?t breastfeed me or summat.

[Katfish]

Am gutted.

The new place sounds woefully bland and not a patch on 72s.

RAH.

[KalamityKel]

Don't be putting the new place down yet it hasn't even opened! Unless... of course we're going for the "bad press = good press" thang?

[pez]

Since it's another bland chain of clapham-esque cocktail bars that we've all seen a million times before, I think people are quite justified in predicting its shite-ness.