[Cambridge] A sad sight
22 Jul 2004 01:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karohemdOn my way to the cinema and back I walked past what used to be the Boat Race. The mutation is almost finished, the signs are already out. It's now called "The Vine - Bar and Kitchen", just what everybody feared it would end up being, a trendy, nondescript ... thing like so many others.
I usually don't condone vandalism at all but this makes me want to take a cricket bat and smash everything to bits...
Short explanation to non-Cambridge folk:
The Boat Race used to be a pub with live music every night where lots of young local bands had their first gig and even some big names (The Levellers, Oasis) played. It was a dark and shoddy place, as many alternative venues are but it had a heart. It was sold off to a big pub chain, Enterprise Inns in January this year. Then for a long time nothing happened and now it's been refurbished in the last month or so. Lots of tall windows, halogen lighting, bright wooden floor, brightly painted walls, all very clinical and sterile.
I usually don't condone vandalism at all but this makes me want to take a cricket bat and smash everything to bits...
Short explanation to non-Cambridge folk:
The Boat Race used to be a pub with live music every night where lots of young local bands had their first gig and even some big names (The Levellers, Oasis) played. It was a dark and shoddy place, as many alternative venues are but it had a heart. It was sold off to a big pub chain, Enterprise Inns in January this year. Then for a long time nothing happened and now it's been refurbished in the last month or so. Lots of tall windows, halogen lighting, bright wooden floor, brightly painted walls, all very clinical and sterile.
