Goths Shall Overcome The Fox Hunt (Hunt Sabb Joke Ahoy)
SAVE THE INTREPID FOX!
Under new owners, it looks like the Intrepid Fox is going to close on the 11th September*. There are all the usual petitions, but I fear they may be in vain. Unless the Goths and Metallers can unite, set aside their differences and overcome the forces of “even darker”ness this Soho institution will be no more.
I have a had a few good beers in there, though my abiding memory of ver Fox was on Tom’s stag night, where as one of his tasks, he had to add a new poster to the walls. Now the Intrepid Fox has a lot of posters up. Iron Maiden, vintage Guns’n'Roses. You can’t spit but to hit Marilyn Manson posters. Tom’s job was to past up a Busted poster without being lynched.
He did it without being noticed – which was probably the best way. Not that he was really in much danger, scratch a metaller or goth and you’ll find a Teddy Bear collecting sweetie who cuts his Nan’s grass on a weekend. So for their sake, just so they can role-play at being hard, sign the petition.
*That Myspace link however is almost justification for shutting the place down!
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Noooooooooooooooooo…………..
VERY interesting, dress code now:
No Ties PLEASE !!! unless your tie is part of your rock n’ roll outfit, of course!
no wonder they’re closing it down.
so basically, solid office-working metaller who can sing along to a million maiden songs will get hassle, but stoopid emo kid will be allowed to sit there unmolested.
I was about to post this here, but Pete beat me to it. The Intrepid Fox was the first central London pub I ever went to! We went there when we were 16 years old and I deliberately wore my Soundgarden t-shirt and DMs and big shorts and no one laughed at me until the moment I attempted to buy a beer.
Hmm: on the one side they are closing a pub, destroying the heritage of the ages and perhaps reducing a convivial space where a young gal about town might sup the od G&T without fear of consumer culture leaping on her arse and trying to sell her Pepsi via a rubbish Robbie Williams rap. Property developers are ripping the heritage out of my fair city and removing what is left of its beating heart and damaging all my potential drink cabinets along the way. We must join, brothers and sisters, in unison against the menace of these redevelopments, before we are reduced to overly oaked Chardonay in an All Bar One or supping Tanq neat from a brown paper bag from that pokey offie on the end of Old Compton Street.
One the other hand, it is The Intrepid Fox, home of Indie/Metal/Goth culture.
Can I swing the Wrecking Ball?
It’s a nice looking building that should be listed (although yeah it doesn’t exactly stand out in Soho).