And while I'm on this topic on eating and drinking in Liverpool, what do you think of this?

Question

I'm sick to death of downtown housing one tacky, dance music booming night club after another. I can't take wasting one more weekend night in town surrounded by track-suit sporting scallies with shaved heads and campy wannabe footballer wives dressed like Amsterdam window "girls." It's bad enough nobody outside of Merseyside can understand the locals when they speak, but they actually get angry with you if you ask them to repeat their local jibberish.

Anyway, how about a few nice pubs and folk clubs, where people can enjoy a drink and listen to musicians strum guitars? It's bad enough any poor man with longish hair has to suffer streams of abuse from some of the more ignorant and xenophobic locals, but these people really have to get out of the 1990s around here.

Please, enough of the glittery, outdated, dance clubs. I'm sick to death of these tacky places. We need a few more alternatives to this kind of dump besides just Ye Cracke, and the Swan.

Answer 1

Folk clubs and bores strumming guitars died out in the 1980s in Liverpool when the practitioners either died or went into old people's homes!  It strikes me that you are the one who "is stuck in a time warp", the early 1970s!

Try going out in Birkenhead if you like that sort of thing, or places in the suburbs or small towns around and about.  Try Chester if you want to know real desperation, and there you're more likely to get your head kicked in!

Birkenhead's 'Swinging Arm' and 'Hotel California' sound right up your street!

Personally I'm off to the Retrosexual Burlesque evening at Liverpool's Royal Court Theatre basement bar tomorrow and there are lots of decent, non-scally, non-footballer bars and clubs, but you have to look for them or hear about them by word-of-mouth because only gangster/footballer bars get advertised or written about.  

The trouble is of course that you can't smoke in them any more, which rather takes the shine off things.

The 'outsiders' you talk about get upset because they arrogantly march in here to make a killing on the property prices and seem disappointed to find that the natives actually don't want to kiss their feet and worship them like colonial overlords!

As for us indiginous folk, no-one has a problem understanding me, though the place is full of irksome student incomers with silly, high-pitched, pseudo-estuarine accents, yet hardly any of them are actually from London!  

Surely they don't "whoyne" like that at home!

Answer 2

Yeah! We get the picture - you are Pi**ed off with where you live - so move.

Answer 3

That sucks, sounds like you are surrounded by a bunch of guys who want to imitate that English guy who became infamous after winning the lottery, what was his name?

Answer 4

Instead of bitching about it, maybe you should look into opening your own club.

Answer 5

I think you should consider moving some where else and i think you have an extremely bad attitude problem.

Answer 6

WHY not start your own club.

then you can have what you like

Answer 7

You sound very much in need of a change of scenery to me, Rita, so why don't you move? It could transform your life.

Answer 8

now that sounds good

Answer 9

I don't think you are sick of Liverpool (as the other guys may suggest), and I can see where you are coming from.

Liverpool as a city has so much to offer and yet the people who live there are stuck in a time warp.

I spent a bit of time their in the early 90's and from subsequent visits I can see that their mentality hasn't changed.

In some ways I like the way scousers behave and generally they are very nice and friendly people, but I wish someone would tell them that they aren't the comedians they genuinely think they are.

As far as clubs go, I thought there were some cracking clubs in Liverpool these days?

Answer 10

Bye