Jim Stax

Fudge awards? Whats that all about then?

If you fancy chilling out a little tonight, and for the next few sundays, come to the Doc's 'The Jazz Lounge' Live jazz from bug and friends, low lighting, candles, films, Dj's, free entry, wonderful staff. What more for a Sunday night

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Wishing everyone that has entered the fine wee place over the last while a happy and great new year. Hope your dreams,wishes and desires come true, in private if need be. Thanks also to those that braved the weather and came on hogmany. It was a fab night free of any expectations. It's great to see happy faces using and abusing the venue... "This year aar be mostly troyin to ploise averyone"... Respect Jim

Just in case anyone is looking... At Drake's tonight... A daft wee party of no specific genre. All musical tastes catered for with some added cheese for a proper hogmany effect. Also tonight we have THE ROCKETEERS TRIO after twelve to kick in a new year rock 'n' roll knees up. Free punch around twelve and FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT!!!! Yes I said FREE ENTRY. Stick your heads in and wish Nick a fairwell and the Doc a happy New year. All the best Jim:cheers:

As things stand at the moment, I have someone ear marked for the space that was Nick... Thanks for the interest though!!!!

I've got the cloning equipment sorted. Just needs me a speciman of Nicks bio-makeup and I will have myself a new suit! Or I could simply pour Jack Daniels straight into the fancy cloning machine... same thing!

We are playing on Monday the 22nd of this month. DEADLOSS SUPERSTAR are getting to go on after us and another act tbc... Rehearsal I here you ask? NAH!!!!! THAT'S THE STACCATO SET AND DEADLOSS SUPERSTAR ON THE SAME BILL WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! And who gets to drum in both bands on this night....? I don't need anything at all for my Christmas now.... One happy manager!!!! That said I ain't gonna get a practise with D(mf)S either. mwah mwah mwah

You all better be there for the night of all nights.... New years eve is the night he steps over the threshold of employee to become a public...? A mighty party is going to be held and much praise heaped upon this fellow. We will also be having, for the delights of the ears, a rip-roaring rock'n'roll trio. Fronted by none other than, fresh from the union street party, Dave Dixon of the Needles. Yes the (kinda) Rocketeers will be making music after the bells. Get your dancing shoes polished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A NIGHT OF NIGHTS!!!! By the way...he is leaving! It's not a mad publicity stunt to get punters in the door. Although.....

YOU RENOUNCE YOUR LOYALTY?????? from far fung lands the loyal will seek you Nick... In search of the source of good! This can only be retained by remaining loyal regardless of how far you travel... I too concern myself with the space that will and should hold the shape of Nick. That said, there is a time in a mans life that he has to step up and face the cauldron of truth! Nick will take his powers to new lands and plant the seed of future 'BARMEN OF THE YEAR.' I have now resigned to his choice. I have shed a tear, but support his decision to taste the fruits of the world. Go with my blessing young man, and spread the word of Nick, for it is a mighty word (backed by JD breath). There is no replacing him! Merely a case of reinventing what he leaves behind... The world will be both sad and bettered by this. I will hold court till your return (I give it two weeks)... Love Jim (less than a boss more than a friend) AAAAAAAROOOOOOGAAAAA I WILL GET TO THE 'JD' FROM NOW ON.... Keep my shoes in the fridge...

Dr Drake say's... I will take this opportunity to proffesionaly remove Dr Drake's from any connection with the origin of this thread. Regarding doorstaff... I am legally required to have them on the premises from 11pm. I use an agency, which means I am not in complete control of who will be on my door on a given night. I will up to this hour and beyond, as has happened, deal with most situations that arise myself... There is no substitute for common sense, dialogue and whenever possible, respect... (this is a statemenet completely free of accusation may I add) As for underagers... Well I might have to put the price of my cans of soft pop up to 8, to cover costs! Bless em! I have a lot of regular under 18's and they show the venue nothing but respect (took me a while though). And they will all be of an age to drink at some point, which means they wiil all head up to HJ's and Moshulu! Love em all Jim:cheers:

huh??? That post reads as if the only place you will leave smelling of smoke is Drake's... There has not been a time, in my extensive going out lifestyle, that I have not gone home with my clothes reeking of smoke. Where ever I have gone! It's the unfortuneat downside, other than the obvious possibilities of serious illness, of socialising in public places/spaces. I am a non-smoker! I go home stinking of the damn stuff. I choose to go to these places and will never get pissed of about it. It is all about choice. Not great but... Disrespectful and ignorant smokers on the other hand Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! On a slight tangent I have decided to stop putting ashtrays on the bar area. It doesn't stop smoking at the bar, but it cuts down the amount of shit that the we (the bar staff) have to inhale over several hours. Nothing worse than trying to clean glasses and some one is blowing smoke in you face or an ignored ciggy is clogging up you nostrils and throat. Not Nice. So if you smoke and you come to Drake's be respectfull with your cancer stcks at the bar. I'm not going to rant and rave about this by the way. Simply a subtle change for the health of the staff. Love Jim

What I said If I had fifnished my post I would have said...

oooops wish I'd finished my post ...

In an ideal world!! No Smoking could never happen. I'm a non-smoker and to quite honest

Come along to Drake's and check out the empty stage, whilst being served by two top manager types. Come pic our brains about love, life, art, music. Veritable oracles on the subjetcs... Be playing a cool mix of stuff for a cold autumnal evening. AN EVENING OF ADVICE ON ANY TOPIC...o_O 8)

that's be the only thing engraved there... personally, i'd say the gig where bri (obviously feeling brave considering his employers) stood on the drakes kit, and then james snapped it in half by jumping through it and knocking the drummer out. how i laughed. we hung brian and james from hooks in the cage through in the storeroom. for four days. fun, fun, fun. i also rather enjoyed the acoustic gig at the lemon tree with electric eel shock. they didn't break anything, which was a pleasant change.

one more thing Not just a grumpy bouncer... There was a guy from a penny arsed covers band that thought it was his swollen ego given right to get in for nothing because he knew a guy in a band. Big hair and kilt!!! He paid! Thank fuck we have quality control down there. I couldn't face people like that very often. Not without some serious injuries! Dr Drake's is simply rolling in cash!!!! As a manager I don't often get personal but... The talent in that room on thursday... fight for that any day!!!!!

May I add That Eric Euan are easily one of the best bands in this grey toon and top top top blokes, I thought they were fab in their adaptability on Thursday... All bands should take a leaf or two out of their book! It seems thursday was the most well mannered, nice people nights a the Doc's. Except as you have said for the door man! Ah well. Everyone needs a foil

Why I otta!!! Too old indeed? Haaaarumph!!!! As far as the bouncers are concerned they are only there to allow me to keep the place open after 11. Licensing thing and I am constantly telling him/them that anything, more or less goes. He's getting there, at least he looks like a bouncer. The Mystery Lounge will still be in existence. It started when Ziggy and myself had a little more time on our hands and also with the intention of giving artists, film makers etc a platform for their work. Not many out there that interested I'm afraid. Hence the hiatus. It is now a case of us acruing enough material etc to put on Mystery Lounge specials/extravaganza's every so often. It was also a worry that we had to find bands that can follow Drat! FAAAABOOOOLUS to say the least. They 'will' be returning to their much loved venue. They are moving to the Leeds apparently will be touring more! TOP FUCKING BLOKES AND SHOULD BE HEARD. Maybe let them open for the Staccato Set someday o_O Keep an eye on the Big Issue. Free cd featuring the aforementioed Staccato Boys. World domenation next. Starting a cult of Lounge....

Damn it!!!! Sounds great ... Think I'll try it for a while. Be nice to just be in a band and get gigs around the universe! Again.

MONEY BACK... We won't actually tell the band that they sucked, and ask for the money back. What we will do is sneak up on those accused, punch them in the back of the knees and remove any cash that is on their person... Problem is that we love everyone and should never need to resort to this. It has been practised on a few bands that will remain nameless but this was many moons ago and they are still shit. Nothing learned I'm afraid. There has been one or two lately. We get a laugh at the dillusions of grandeur though and it's money well spent for the comedy value!!! I will add to this, in regards to gigging and clubbing, that we have one of the best little-big sound systems that you will hear this side of venus!!!!

erm The same as before... Top notch entertainment but without the Difts!

Cd etc Send or hand in some sort of audio based thing that we can hear. We'll take it from there if it fits. That doesn't mean that if you don't get a call as soon as that we don't like it. It simply means that we ain't got a spot for a while... Cheers for now Jim

Massaging... He won't notice... He'll be pissed and ranting at the chickens he has started storing underneath the beer kegs. Not to mention swatting women with giant sticky fly paper (saves time on conversattion). And you see the size of his pockets... Tardis... The man can get a stack of forty two pint glasses in the inside pocket, two underagers that may or may not have been drinkning stashed on the outside ones and a girls bra removed and tucked way inside his ciggy case before she notices that all her mates have left because the band have finished. Done without stopping I may add. There is also rumours of a name change for that lovely American whiskey 'NICK DANIELS' The diet coke is just a guilt thing.