new bar application - Boho Bar, 52 Lordship Lane (Lounged)

[Mark]

Nearby Greetings and Somerfields, the old arcade is applying to be a late night bar. Application is to stay open until 12:30am Sunday to Thursday then 2am Friday and Saturday.

Does anyone know anything about Boho Bar or the applicant, Shenol Mentesh Ibrahim? What sort of place are we going to be getting? Spit and sawdust or Chasers? Manhattan or Croydon?

Full application details here:

http://licensing.southwarksites.com/LicPremisesAppliedDetails.asp?systemkey=828690

[Michael Palaeologus]

Maybe a small, bijou strip club just slipping under the bar (arf) before the new legislation comes into force?

[Vickster]

Is this the old Tivoli amusements place?

[Siduhe]

A gentleman with the same first name and surname appears to run and/or be a director of the company that runs/ran the Scene Bar on the OKR.

Edited: to say that it looks like Scene may have shut down now and have been replaced by the fantastically named Xeus nightclub?

[SeanMacGabhann]

'Tis, vickster - it's long been rumoured to be opening witha license but all has been quiet for a while. A name like BoHo Bar is likely to get the attention of Inside 72 exiles but I suspect it will be of the modern, Adventure Bar type venture - albeit with beer on tap and maybe some food.

For a guess

[Asset]

OMG I went to Adventure bar on Saturday - I had to leave after one. MOR Rock music (Bon Jovi and Elton John* to name 2 artists) played at such a volume conversation was impossible and lots of over-excited 20 somethings. Nice Margherita but not as strong as the one I then had in Licorish.

sorry - off topic. New bar eh? Just what we need\!!

* I do like some EJ but not what Adventure bar was playing

[AcedOut]

BoHo really does sound like a strip club. I really hope not - there are enough in the city. It would fail anyway. Personally, I'd love to see an Eclipse type place on LL (it works well in Wimbledon). We could do with something a bit more upbeat and open till late.

[AcedOut]

He's not bought the uk domain name for it yet...

https://secure.uk2.net/cgi-bin/register/domains.pl?domain=www.bohobar.co.uk

[AcedOut]

"lots of over-excited 20 somethings" lol

Someone is showing their age!

[MadWorld74]

Mr MW74 and I saw a 50's style diner/pole dancing club in Brighton last weekend. The 'dancer' was dressed in a 50's style waitress outfit. Mr MW74 wanted to go in thinking it was a normal dinner. I had to point out the rather large pole in the window to him.

Maybe we could have one of those instead?

[Jah Lush]

If it's as bohemian as the name suggests then I'm all for it.

[Brendan]

Doubt it Jah. Such places tend to just be so rather than to have to advertise it through their names.

[Jah Lush]

Yup, you're probably right Brendan. Gone are the idiosyncratic, somewhat bohemian bars like The Drum and to a lesser extent Inside 72. One can only live in hope.

[Brendan]

Chin up old boy. New things emerge and places change. You never know this new place could play nothing but the stones, have free beer and dancing girls.

[Jah Lush]

I can get all that at home.

[Brendan]

You've got free beer and dancing girls in your gaff! Can I come 'round?

[Josh]

not another bar for breeders, surely? The ED market is saturated already.

[HonaloochieB]

Well done Josh.

Even at this late stage you've managed to qualify for daftest post of the year.

Well done.

[Brendan]

I do like the breeders, even if their first major successes were ushered in by the demise of the pixies. Although it was inevitable that Kim Deal would find an alternative and equally successful outlet for her talents as they were often bullishly sidelined by black Francis.

[HonaloochieB]

Brendan Wrote:

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> I do like the breeders, even if their first major

> successes were ushered in by the demise of the

> pixies. Although it was inevitable that Kim Deal

> would find an alternative and equally successful

> outlet for her talents as they were often

> bullishly sidelined by black Francis.

I was tempted to go along the Breeders pop group line myself, Brendan, and well done for going there, and that would be usually my tack.

But, I think that Josh's post was worthy of a mention for the quality of it's special air of ill-thought silliness.

[Administrator]

Please stay on topic

[AcedOut]

Where is breeding taking place in LL bar? Am I missing something!?

I noticed a lot of (sound) insulation piled up in the venue last night, so I'm guessing it's going in the bar/club direction, but that's a pretty loose guess.

Apparently, Adventure Bar is not charging for entry on NYE and will have a last man standing policy!

[okcomputa]

Application should be refused on the count of the name of the place alone. W*nkers.

[Sue]

What would your preferred name be? :)

[jaybee82]

I'd turn it into a drop in centre and name it HoBo.