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lisasjukur — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:22:05 +0100

So has anyone been in yet?
And what's it like?

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krappyrubsnif — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:28:22 +0100

Primary colours

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tosscat — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:13:46 +0100

Not yet.

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unaesthetic — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:23:47 +0100

where is it? and is it anything like the camden one was (ie horrendous)?

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krappyrubsnif — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:52:13 +0100

What was the Camden one like?

This appears......er, basic.

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unaesthetic — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:17:09 +0100

never went in while it was WKD (been to gigs there a few times since) but it seemed to be blaring r&b with loads of bouncers and people being sick outside it every time i went past (most likely to the dev, to my shame).

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Jeremy Fisher — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:23:01 +0100

He sold on the Camden one after a few years and moved up to The Triangle.

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David — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:55:45 +0100

Like The Dev never has blaring music or anyone being sick outside it.

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unaesthetic — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:06:10 +0100

look, i stated my goth shame, enough already.

fwiw, the previous landlords at the dev were lovely and basically got booted out on the street when the brewery/owner decided they wanted to change the venue to a more "mainstream alternative" place. my chums used to dj there 2 or 3 nights a week, so there was always something interesting on. and it was never empty. now it just plays generic alt-goth-rock and it's quarter-full of generic alt-camden types (ie middle class kids from the suburbs who are "rebelling" for a bit before they go to read classics at oxbridge)... the very scraping of the goth barrel. (and that's a well-scraped barrel, i can tell you)

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andy — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:35:50 +0100

Has anyone been into WKD yet? I've not been anywhere but working since it opened, but I'd like a field report please.

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krappyrubsnif — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:45:49 +0100

Primary colours, tatty decor, poorly painted, boxes with cushions on for seats, hippy slogans on the wall. Bit like a 60s squat, really. No kitchen. Good sound system probably. Beer about 3 quid a bottle. I was there on opening night - one of the first ten customers actually. Didn't get a free glass of bubbly though.

I won't be going back.

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Ali — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:30:44 +0100

Obviously still developing it’s personality !
Maybe it is the alter ego of the Triangle

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phantom_user — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:55:25 +0100

There is an open planning application for the building which suggests that there already is or will be a kitchen.

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unaesthetic — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:40:22 +0100

odd-shaped venue...

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krappyrubsnif — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:31:36 +0100

They told me they took out the old Rose Restaurant kitchen, didn't say why.

Apparently it's going to be an arts bar, so shabby chic will be OK. Full details in today's Hornsey Journal. WKD stands for something like Wisdom, Knowledge, (forget what the D is....possibly Drunkenness).

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tomp — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:42:08 +0100

theres a difference between shabby chic and just tatty shit.
this is the latter i feel.

Oh how i miss Rose kebab, it was excellent for takeaway. The only good Ocacbasi this side of Green Lanes.

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phantom_user — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:42:02 +0100

Hornsey Journal article here

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Reg — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:31:24 +0100

Seems all rather academic that there is a kitchen on the plans since there does not appear to be a door in to it...

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sincers — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:03:44 +0100

Is it owned by an Austrian?

(Is that bad taste?)

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injoke — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:01:37 +0100

"wisdom knowledge destiny"

i've just vomited up mescaline all over my birkenstocks

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injoke — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:13:26 +0100

they should pretend it's named after the alcopop, that would be less embarassing.

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Ali — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:22:26 +0100

Is that the Irn Brew one ?

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injoke — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:55:02 +0100

i was thinking the one called "WKD".

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godzilla — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:17:47 +0100

injoke shows age by not knowing wkd flavas

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injoke — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:23:59 +0100

it were all "hooch" in my day, and round here it were all fields.

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bennyfromtheblok — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:41:35 +0100

Two Dogs was quite nice - just tasted like 7Up but was about 5%. Then someone had the bright idea of mixing this with Lager and creating the "turbo shandy" - cue people getting very drunk and lots of crap programmes about booze Britain.

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David — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:47:18 +0100

turbo shandy

The oxymoron for the booze Britain generation.

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ADGS — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:27:30 +0100

My sister observed, correctly, that Two Dogs 'tasted of burps'.