BITE user comments - MadMick
Comments by MadMick
I've heard that it's being converted to a bistro, with, I suppose, flats upstairs.
21 Apr 2009 12:27
The Trolley Stop RIP
As I write the Trolley Stop is a building site - another pub to apartments conversion,,,finally? U see mention on another pub review website of fire damage to the front of the premises...hmmm...
9 Dec 2008 15:13
The Trolley Stop
Music Listings - March 1995
Wednesday 1st - Will Killeen - Bluegrass
Thursday 2nd - Zowie - Soul
Friday 3rd - The Few - Pop/Rock
Saturday 4th - Entourage - Blues/Soul
Sunday 5th - Piano Night
Monday 6th - Audition Night
Tuesday 7th - Andy Lloyd - Pop/Rock
Wednesday 8th - Lucy Ray - Rock
Thursday 9th - The Homertones - Blues
Friday 10th - G.B. 3 - Jazz & Blues
Saturday 11th - Daddy Longlegs - Soul & Blues
Sunday 12th - Piano Night
Monday 13th - Audition Night
Tuesday 14th - Jane Best - Pop
Wednesday 15th - Stone Country - Country/Blues
Thursday 16th - Chicago Shout House - Rock/Blues
Friday 17th - Jam Professors - Soul/Blues
Saturday 17th - Space Chickens - Pop/Rock
Sunday 18th - Piano Night with Mad Mick
Monday 19th - Audition Night with Mad Mick
Tuesday 20th - Pigmeat Pete Smith - Bluegrass/Country
Wednesday 20th - The Lonesome Bone - Bluegrass
Thursday 21st - The Dolmen - Progressive Rock
Friday 24th - Dino Baptiste and the Mystic Mile - Blues/Soul
Saturday 25th - Tony O'Malley Band - Blues
Sunday 26th - Piano Night with Mad Mick
Monday 27th - Audition Night with Mad Mick
Tuesday 28th - Walking Wounded - Bluegrass
Wednesday 29th - Anomie - Pop
Thursday 30th - Dunce - Rock/Pop
Friday 31st - Joli Blon -Cajun/Country
Music Listings - July 2008
Sweet FA
20 Jul 2008 08:13
The Stapleton Tavern, Finsbury Park
Haven't been in since it became The Larrik, but sounds like it's gone well upmarket from its former incarnation as the Stapleton Hall Tavern - I played there one night in the early 90s and was lucky to escape with my life, as the former clientele were as rough as a badger's arse.
3 Jul 2008 17:14
The best Athlone pub outside of Athlone! Full of Athlonians and acolytes on weekends in the good old days of the late 80s/early 90s when I used to go there regularly.
YOu can see the exterior and interior of the Stags as it was 20 years ago on "Completely Pogued", a bonus documentary on the DVD of the Pogues live at the Town and Country Club in '88 (it was broadcast on Channel 4 a couple of times in the 90s.)
3 Jul 2008 15:05
God, I hate gastro pubs like this one. This used to be an honest-to-God local pub - the restaurant area at the back was once a rocking music room, where the likes of the Balham Alligators used to play. Was also venue for the Islington Folk Club at one time. Ah...sniff sniff...the good old days!
1 Jul 2008 15:59
The Rosemary Branch, Islington
I used to go there regularly in the 90s when the pub had live music, but sadly no longer. Why do so many of those one-time music pubs (the Trolley Stop, the Dove etc.) no longer have live music - has it anything to do with the prohibitive cost of a music licence these days?
1 Jul 2008 15:49
The best Athlone pub outside of Athlone in the 80s and early 90s. The saddest pub closure of my lifetime - not having been to Camden for several years I was totally shocked on revisiting a couple of years ago to discover that the Stag's had joined the late great pubs in the sky. RIP.
1 Jul 2008 15:05
Not closed or converted to "residential housing" as stated by the previous reviewer - the Exchange has re-opened as what looks like a very snazzy wine bar called "Fake Club" - I haven't been in yet but must do so soon to check it out. Better a conversion than complete closure, I always say. Back in the early 90s I spent many chilled afternoons divided between the Exchange and the former Stag's Head nearby, a forlorn sight these days in its grisly re-incarnation as "Stag Apartments".
1 Jul 2008 14:51
From another pub review website:
From the outside we had high hopes. The ornate Victorian ironwork, bearing the pub's original name (De Beauvoir Arms) was still intact and the large bay windows easily invite you in. Recently under new management, all the ingredients are in place to make this place great, but sadly something's gone wrong in the oven. From the sparse interior and strange-looking bar, to the odd chemical smell and the incorrect punctuation for the Ladies' toilet, nothing was quite right. The service was good and the Guinness well-kept, but its often a bad sign when the ale pumps are purely decorative. We also know the large back room was previously an alternative music venue, but didn't see much evidence of it still being a feature during our visit. Perhaps promoting themselves as a less pretentious rival to the overpriced Talbot down the road would draw the punters, because at the moment it's simply squandering some great potential.
"Squandering" is putting it mildly! The Trolley Stop rocked seven nights a week in the 80s and 90s - now it's a sad and bleak place, with about 10 or less customers any time I pass it these days - it can't be long before it suffers the same fate as a lot of other once lively pubs i.e. closes down and gets converted into flats.
14 Jun 2008 09:32
The Trolley Stop, Kingsland
The Hen and Chickens is also long-gone as a music venue. I don't live around there anymore, so I can't recommend anywhere else.
10 Aug 2009 13:52