Surprise As Club Shuts After 11 Months
Rubbish St Neots club Worx closed its doors last week, after the credit crunch apparently drove residents to drink at home.
Ignoring the fact that the Priory seemed to be busy as ever, a spokesman for Teeth-Moss Entertainment, who own the venue in the former Job Centre as well as similarly-doomed Stripes Bar & Grill in South Street, said “It just wasn’t viable.”
“People have been staying in,” he continued. “A tenner to get in and drink all night isn’t much, but we regularly had an empty club, we couldn’t understand it.”
The Citizen pointed out that the club, which opened a week late in July 2008, had no atmosphere, a sticky dance floor, shit music, piss-covered stairs, a rubbish smoking area, and a bizarre policy of closing at 12.30pm if attendance was low – just before all the other pubs kick out – but Teeth-Moss refused to budge, saying “we had a good VIP area”.
Local drinkers, who have long bemoaned the loss of former venue Shots & The Warehouse, with their much-missed central courtyard, were shocked. “Fark me,” said Nene Road resident Jason Ranham, 22. “Eleven months? I’m surprised the shit-tip stayed open that long!”
“Has it really been almost a year already?’ wondered Stacey Casey, 18, from Lindisfarne Close. “I only went twice and it was so awful I instantly forgot about it.”
Another recent casualty of the recession was rubbish dance pub Mix Bar, which has swiftly recovered under new management by turning back into it’s former self The Wrestlers. The Citizen caught up with Mix Bar’s previous landlord, Dave Breville-Toaster, at Huntingdon Job Centre. “Well it was the recession wasn’t it,” he said. “Nothing to do with the fact that I turfed out hundreds of regulars because I don’t like greebos.”
The latest pub to ignore the mantra “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it” is the Pig ‘n’ Falcon, formerly the Falcon, opposite the Wrestlers, formerly Mix Bar formerly Wrestlers, in New Street, formerly Old Street, in St Neots, formerly Eynesbury, Cambridgeshire formerly Huntingdonshire… Watch out for our report on this new Real Ale pub coming as soon as one of our reporters fancies a pint.
I don’t understand why the owners of the Mix bar and Piggin Falcon didn’t put in a bid for Woolies and rename it Pig ‘n’ Mix.
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