2 hours ago, Rudy said:

Yeah next door but one to the pasty shop

Boars Head was next but one the the Pasty Shop... my cousin's pub until it burned down

55 minutes ago, bolton va va said:

Used to do the Halliwell mile on NYE which was mostly peaceful & not too packed, but the millenium killed it with some pubs trying to charge to get in. I never went in a couple of them again & now they're gone. No sympathy.

I'd never done a NYE night out pre 2000 so I like reading about the 1999 NYE parties, superclubs jumping the shark and charging a ton for their regular DJ lineup. Wasn't Gatecrashers in Don Valley Stadium? 🤣

I've found with NYE, the lower key, less hyped and closer to home your night is, the better your experience.

I got engaged 22 years ago tomorrow. I'll probably be sleeping in my car this time though.

10 minutes ago, Dimron said:

I had my first Saturday job there shelf stacking while listening to American Pie, Maggie May and Horse With No Name on a tape loop

Can remember my brother was still in a pram and pulled a massive bottle of brown sauce of a shelf and smashed it in there.

It was OK though.

Just now, Whitestar said:

Can remember my brother was still in a pram and pulled a massive bottle of brown sauce of a shelf and smashed it in there.

It was OK though.

I probably had to mop the fkkr up

6 minutes ago, Marc505 said:

I'd never done a NYE night out pre 2000 so I like reading about the 1999 NYE parties, superclubs jumping the shark and charging a ton for their regular DJ lineup. Wasn't Gatecrashers in Don Valley Stadium? 🤣

I've found with NYE, the lower key, less hyped and closer to home your night is, the better your experience.

They were all at it mate. Cream had a massive do on albert docks. Syndicate a little later on over this way did similar.

Mixing clubbers with main stream piss pots out on a night out. Disastrous for all concerned.

23 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Mixing clubbers with main stream piss pots out on a night out. Disastrous for all concerned.

Seem to remember going to Mondo and slipping through a curtain, guarded by a bouncer, into Temple. Or was it the other way round?

Anyway it was really fucking weird. A real mind shift and it never seemed to end well

47 minutes ago, gonzo said:

They were all at it mate. Cream had a massive do on albert docks. Syndicate a little later on over this way did similar.

Mixing clubbers with main stream piss pots out on a night out. Disastrous for all concerned.

Sounds like that's been the case ever since!

4 hours ago, Rudy said:

Right look down at the church from Preston’s 

 

Swan , man and scythe on the right and some ever changing named bar

on the left where originals used to be next to it is the brass cat further down is varsity’s 

 

 

Have we confirmed where it is yet?

@little whittjust remembered was with you in Bolton think it was New Year’s Eve before you went Germany and you introduced me to your missus,  just come back to me, or was it between Xmas and new year? 

38 minutes ago, Spider said:

Have we confirmed where it is yet?

Corner of Winter Hey Lane. I think a local snooker player owned it

Just seen the lineup for jools Holland tomorrow night

Has it always been shit and it’s just tradition because fuck me the lineup is volcano worthy

 

8 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

@little whittjust remembered was with you in Bolton think it was New Year’s Eve before you went Germany and you introduced me to your missus,  just come back to me, or was it between Xmas and new year? 

was after a game i think 

was not NYE 

The NYE before the Peter Reid Everton game was the first time i tried Merrydown silver label.

 

8 hours ago, Rudy said:

Just seen the lineup for jools Holland tomorrow night

Has it always been shit and it’s just tradition because fuck me the lineup is volcano worthy

 

Can't possibly be a bad as NYEs when I was a kid. Andy Stewart spoke to any cunt who was Scottish. That was the thing back then,  NYE was seen as a Scottish thing so the tv entertainment was pretty much their shite. 

There are only so many times you can listen to him singing his big hit before wanting to brick the telly. 

 

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Fat thumb

Apart from the odd decent player like SJM or Andy Walker i am struggling to think of anything that comes from Scotland that is worth a second thought.

 

(2 doors down is quite funny).

 

19 minutes ago, Whitestar said:

Apart from the odd decent player like SJM or Andy Walker i am struggling to think of anything that comes from Scotland that is worth a second thought.

 

(2 doors down is quite funny).

 

Skids

Shirley Manson

Professor David Wilson

Jazza's escapades origin story

Gail Porters arse?

Just now, Dr Faustus said:

Skids

Shirley Manson

Professor David Wilson

Jazza's escapades origin story

Gail Porters arse?

Cholesterol

25 minutes ago, Whitestar said:

Apart from the odd decent player like SJM or Andy Walker i am struggling to think of anything that comes from Scotland that is worth a second thought.

 

(2 doors down is quite funny).

 

still game

buckfast

 

10 hours ago, Spider said:

Have we confirmed where it is yet?

Yeah, Venue is on same side as Man & Scythe, but before where the BEN offices are/were.

Both mine and Mrs FWs birthday so feeling lucky I just managed to book a table for this evening….just hope she likes snooker!!

2 hours ago, Whitestar said:

Apart from the odd decent player like SJM or Andy Walker i am struggling to think of anything that comes from Scotland that is worth a second thought.

 

(2 doors down is quite funny).

 

Still Game

Drambuie

3 hours ago, Whitestar said:

Apart from the odd decent player like SJM or Andy Walker i am struggling to think of anything that comes from Scotland that is worth a second thought.

 

(2 doors down is quite funny).

 

Gerard Butler would be ridden into battle. 

51 minutes ago, bolton_blondie said:

Gerard Butler would be ridden into battle. 

He's a pufter.

16 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

He's a pufter.

Nailed on. Shit actor as well