Before my time I’m afraid! But yes they need to try some new ideas and generate a bit of buzz to get people used to going. I was going to Hull Truck that night so it was the obvious place to eat, but I’ll probably avoid it in future unless it changes. Pity.
Yes, nothing like having music you don’t like played even louder to attract you into a place and make you want to stay,
They do a nice freshly made pizza but that will be gone in a few weeks time . Pizza and pint for £10 . The same thing would be around £18- £20 in ask or Prezzo
Jazz is like 5 year olds in nursery banging on pots and pans, in fact, more tuneful, I remember on telly eons ago that Cleo woman screeching bollocks with no rhyme or reason, painful it was. I once went in restaurant in San Francisco with our lass, packed out it was, a band started setting up, and with that one bloke thrashed the drums, another twat sawed away at the massive bass, and a bloke on a keyboard was singing gibberish, I started laughing, looked round and realised it was full off blokes giving me the evils, it was only a gay jazz bar and restaurant, check please. What a ****ing row
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But @balkan tiger is right to ask the question. With all due respect you’re probably not their target audience. We went in and weren’t even sure the whole place was open. Music, better lighting, etc would have at least made it feel like something was going on. I personally liked the live music in there, and was never worried whether it was my taste in music, it created an atmosphere, brought in punters (at the very least friends of bands) and was something to sit and watch. They may still do them, I’m not sure, but it’s certainly more enticing, for me, when there’s music on, just as long as you can hear each other talk It’s dying on its arse so worth trying anything
No objection to music being on. Just not keen on music I don’t like blasting in my ears.Jazz, traditional folk and country and western are my idea of hell. As is stuff which consists of nothing but a heavy bass thumping way. Just as irritating is bland muzak. Wouldn’t mind Janis Joplin and Otis Redding alternating. Though others would.
Was thinking you'd been whooshed with your earlier reply, this one suggests maybe not. It's an eating and shopping place first and foremost, somewhere to sit and have a chat with friends over a coffee. Background music is fine a music concert is not. My original point was a bit tongue in cheek, been in plenty of places where the boss thought the louder the music the more customers would come in.
