RedStar!

[Keef]

I notice from a comment by Alan Dale that it's re-opened.

Has anyone been, has it changed a lot, what sort of music are they playing, is it still full of seedy w@nkers, how much is it to get in????

Had some classic nights in there in the early 000s, but then it got really sh!t!

Don't the same people also own The Living room (or just Living these days I think) in Brixton as well as Dogstar?

[mockney piers]

Living, brilliant, ?3 for a lime & soda. Think I may give it a miss.

[Gerrard]

I will never forget watching my drunk friend Rob stumble towards the toilets in the Redstar and laughing as he chose to go through the door marked with a massive W rather than opting for the one next door marked M, only to come out a minute later red faced and a rather shocked look on his face.. I am with you Keef, I have some great memories of this place too, but wonder if they should stay as such, and not fog them with future visits. It was a great place in its day.

[Cassius]

It's not just the nights in the Redstar that I think I'd rather forget - it's the thinking that I was fine to walk home alone at 3.00 in the morning - week after week after week.

[Keef]

Used to be great watching the Saturday Night Fight outside the Silver Buckle at 3 or 4 in the morning though

[RosieH]

did anyone ever go when it was the Old Father Redcap?

[Jah Lush]

Yeah! I did a couple of times a long time ago. Went to a fabulous party upstairs once too. Ended up as a gay bar didn't it?

[RosieH]

yes it did - proper old school Blue Oyster style - wandered in inadvertently one night as it was the only place still open to get a drink. my two male friends had to kiss each other to prove they were gay so we could get in. I've never seen anything more chaste, and clearly neither had the bouncers, but they let us in anyway, out of pity I think

[Keef]

I got dragged in there by a gay friend of mine on her 21st, not realising what it was like. I was only about 16-17, and after seeing a bloke in tight leather doing kareoke to Rick Astley, I decided it was time to head home! Scary stuff, and as RosieH says, it was indeed Blue Oyster style!

[????]

I spent most of the late 90s/early naughties wandering up their with a bunch of SE5ers pissed after the Snug/Pacific/Babooshka closed....they'd let us in on Tuesday, Wed, Thursday but suddenly the same bouncers who we knew would be all "Sorry lads" on Friday night. There was also the black lady bouncer who for some completley unknown reason detested my girlfriend (now missus) plus we used to scroounge tickets of Mr Brights the stationer on Denmark Hill who was always in there plus the mad Wednesday(?) breakdancing night....stream of conscious of the old Redstar.....also rememberthe FRC when it was staright, but refused entry very pissed one night when it was gay

[SeanMacGabhann]

they should have turned it into a bookies..

[Keef]

I remember that woman bouncer, she was by far the hardest looking one on the door!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

It's finally happened, Sean has mutated into ????.

[Asset]

it's not open yet

[SeanMacGabhann]

PGC - hopefully you played that comment as straight as I played mine ;-)

I passed it yesterday about 6:30 ish and it was shut but had a big "what's on in March" poster up - I guess it could just be open late evenings at the weekends?

[Alan Dale]

removed

[????]

Someone told me The Lounge in Coldharbour Lane is closed now - can any of you young guns about town confirm this?

[sazzle]

the living room closed a fair few months ago according to a friend.