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The Beauchamp Tavern, Knightsbridge
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— 16 Dec 2005 Tom Comment

Knightsbridge may not strike you as the happiest hunting grounds for a good boozer and in the case of the Beauchamp Tavern you’d be right. Why mention it at all? Because it’s such an object lesson in how not to do a hybrid bar/pub. Its hy[…]

ALPINE? LAGER??? ALPINE LAGER?????
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— 16 Dec 2005 CarsmileSteve Comment

ALPINE BLOODY LAGER????? i mean , i’m not a lager drinker by any stretch of the imagination, but Sam Smiths have now finally lost any sembalence of the plot. the MAN is still there, though, of course, no longer in his box, but where it used to […]

Is there even a word for it
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— 16 Dec 2005 Pete Baran Comment

There are lots of warning signs in pop: many of them can be easily paraphrased as “You Are Now Leaving Pop”. Getting in orchestras, concept albums, sacking the entire band*. But certainly when you find out that your favourite band has mad[…]

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