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Originally Posted by Teabags

I'm pretty much set on never going to moshulu unless I'm dragged there.

I'd rather sit in my mates drinking and farting than go to moshulu on a Friday or Saturday now.

if you shit on your carpet then & played Bon Jovi then you'd almost recreate the Moshulu experience in your own home. A disease ridden toilet would make it even closer.

[Metarie]

Originally Posted by Johnny Mac

I just don't get it. The place was great for a while. There was a good mix of people and music and you always met people you knew and had a laugh.

Now it's only full of goths and metallers. The music is abysmal for the majority of the night. No-one dances.... and then everyone leaves early.

Just out of interest, is the Saturday night busy? I'll come along and try that! As I think i'll stick to exodus on a Friday from now on.

The carpets are beyond a joke now.

I have to say I've not seen any goths or metallers in Moshulu on a Friday in ages, everyone seems pretty 'mainstream' for want of a better word. No one gets hugely dressed up anymore.
Saturdays are pretty busy, it's a strange atmosphere because Air Guitar is in the backroom which doesn't really go with the indie in the main room. But it works somehow...

I don't really understand how the place has gone so downhill with Barfly backing it, I would have thought they'd be all for gutting the place and starting from scratch.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Metarie

I don't really understand how the place has gone so downhill with Barfly backing it, I would have thought they'd be all for gutting the place and starting from scratch.

Takes time to get everything in place I suppose. I imagine they're planning to give it a big overhaul at some point.

[Jan Deal]

I'd be interested to know what they plan to do with the carpet if they replace it. Good luck to anyone who has to remove it...

[Jeanette]

It's quite amusing though when you try to walk away from wherever you're standing and you are actually quite stuck! But then it's just disgusting...

And what's with the gadgets for the tills. It's just plain silly and takes more time to serve people!

[Flash@TMB]

Originally Posted by Metarie

I don't really understand how the place has gone so downhill with Barfly backing it, I would have thought they'd be all for gutting the place and starting from scratch.

Some chains take that approach, others don't.

They may be in a holding pattern till they see how the financials look. Most businesses of that size work on debt. The banking situation now, combined with rising beer costs (due to a bad harvest), makes it not a good time to increase borrowing.

Unfortunately Aberdeen has been subjected to this for as far back as I can remember (about 20 years). There were several periods where there was nowhere to go... as in nowhere that would admit us to their premises... after midnight. For a long time the best we had was a Mon/Thurs at the Palace.

Historically various larger clubs would only attempt the alt.rock thing as a last ditch effort if their initial aspirations as a mainstream place failed. To this end there's been:

The Venue. You'd have liked it.

The Ritzy / Bonkers / Palace, which over the years operated in difference rooms and on different nights, by different groups.

Ceasers Palace.

TJ's - think this is Bud Bar now.

Buskers - this had a Fri/Sat rock thing going in the dark days before it become Drakes. That was in 1997. It has to be said that 1996 and 1997 were something of a low point. I'm not sure if the old Drakes was on the go then, but if it was then unfortunately I didn't know about it. By this time we were reduced to visiting the metro where at least they played country.

The 4-5 years of Moshulu were like an unusually warm blip which exposed some rock between ice ages.

[Flash@TMB]

Originally Posted by JeanieStar

It's quite amusing though when you try to walk away from wherever you're standing and you are actually quite stuck! But then it's just disgusting...

And what's with the gadgets for the tills. It's just plain silly and takes more time to serve people!

Way way upstairs in the old, old, old RGIT union there existed a place called - wait for it - 'The Candlelit Lounge'. It was dark (most of the lights were out) and quiet so Stoners used to go their to smoke doobs. It was like being in a very big, dirty, and dingy flat with shite decor. It had sticky carpet tiles on the floor, each a foot square. They were those brown ones, so they probably even looked dirty when they were new in the 1970s. Anyhow I once attempted to cross the room wearing para boots. A carpet tile came up on each of my soles and stuck there. Some of you can possible envisage just how hysterically funny this was to 12 of my very stoned mates. One of them almost died choking in a pool of snot.

[Lucky Rathen]

The toilets in Moshulu are fucking horrible, stinking, overflowing, and you have to wade through about an inch of piss every time you go it's gross. The carpets fucking horrible, the whole place is just starting to look dingy and dirty, it needs closig down for a bit of TLC, a paint job, a new carpet and a damn good clean in my opinion.

[Jeanette]

Originally Posted by Flash@TMB

Anyhow I once attempted to cross the room wearing para boots. A carpet tile came up on each of my soles and stuck there. Some of you can possible envisage just how hysterically funny this was to 12 of my very stoned mates. One of them almost died choking in a pool of snot.

Hahahahaha. That is actually hysterical.

[Jeanette]

Originally Posted by Elwood Cobra Kai

The toilets in Moshulu are fucking horrible, stinking, overflowing, and you have to wade through about an inch of piss every time you go it's gross. The carpets fucking horrible, the whole place is just starting to look dingy and dirty, it needs closig down for a bit of TLC, a paint job, a new carpet and a damn good clean in my opinion.

Yup... There's never any toilet roll in the ladies. It always smells and the lights hardly work either!