#the speakeasy

[bigdreamsandstudentloans]

The Speakeasy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alt Shading:

[tavolgisvist]

JEFF DEXTER: …It [The Speakeasy] took over from the Bag O’Nails in Kingley Street. It was where I] first saw Jimi Hendrix. The Speakeasy had a band every night, so a lot of the new bands would play there as a matter of course and all the stars would get up and jam. It was a great melting pot for the old and the new styles. Then they had these nights where they’d have new acts. Tony Howard was the booker. They had the Floyd, the Soft Machine, who had a residency there. It was open till 4am and often I’d go there after work at Tiles. You’d have dinner, meet your friends and talk.

ANDREW BAILEY: The Speakeasy, a dreadful place! It was this cellar off Margaret Street, a roadies’ heaven. <…>

JO CRUIKSHANK: I was going to the Speakeasy.<…>When you’re young and vivacious and you don’t get pissed, clubs absoiutely adore to have you. You’re just a sparkly young thing, you’re not a tart — so they give you free memberships. The Speakeasy gave me a free membership. I used to go three or four times a week. I’d sit and drink and not drink very much but I’d want another, which I couldn’t afford, and they’d say, ‘It’s all right, darling, we'll put it on Brian’s bill.’

So Brian [Jones] would come in, holding hands with Anita Pallenberg, and didn’t know that in fact he was standing drinks for half the Speakeasy. There was always someone footing the bill without knowing it. Keith Richard was another. Jimi Hendrix used to come. I was sitting at a table one night, I’d been off to have a little dance and I came back and Jimi Hendrix was sitting there and I walked up and said, ‘Sorry, this is my a table,’ and he was so polite and apologetic — ‘Have I taken your seat, here have it back’ — and I thought ‘My goodness!’ and I became a complete Hendrix fan after that.

The Speak certainly wasn’t a hippie club, it was medallion man club — record producers and things. All the people you’d see parading on the King’s Road on a Saturday you’d quite likely see at the Speak on a weekday night. No one ever went on a Saturday, of course — that was strictly for the plebs. Tuesday or Wednesday was when you went, showing how you didn’t have to get up next morning.

(Days in the Life by Jonathon Green, 1998)

[blackros78]

The Jimi Hendrix Experience at The Speakeasy in London, 1967. Photo by Rowan Bulmer.

[matteo-hamato]

Making the thumbnail for the new playlist! Yes this is the speakeasy's interior lay out

[fidjiefidjie]

Bonne matinée 🎧🥤💙

The Speakeasy ,Tim Tim 🎶 Rum 'n' Coca Cola (Shake It Up Well)

[safedistancefrombeingsmart]

art_gallery_since_1996

Thanks for all

@mumperbax

”The Speakeasy Volume 2” love

Keep the pic’s coming…..

Here’s Mr Freeman of North London getting stuck into his copy.

Volume 1 & 2 available

Swipe & tap to shop

( x )

[copperbadge]

NaClYoHo Day 27: BACK IN THE SADDLE....again

I’ve had various health issues, both physical and mental, that have kept me from Salty Pirates housecleaning in the past week or so, but today I got back in and assembled a new cat tree! 

Mind you, the Cryptids still love their cedar tree that @figtreeandvine made them (on the right, with Deebs being super dramatic up top) but their prefab mass-produced cat tree on the other side of the living room was really suffering, so I replaced it with a taller, more complicated number today. They seem to be enjoying it, though only time will tell. In addition, I managed to vacuum not just the area around the tree (which badly needed it -- sisal sheds like a motherfucker) but the entire condo. So much stray litter.

The condo floors still feel a bit strange, like they’ve got a thin layer of dirt that the vacuum couldn’t handle, but I’ve mail-ordered a cleaner that you add to mop water to help get your floors clean, and as soon as it arrives.....WE MOP. The cryptids have rarely encountered the mop, so that should be fun.

Tomorrow: dishes, converting leftover cornbread into dressing, and perhaps some holiday decorations. Let’s get ambitious.

[Description: Two images; in both, Dearborn is inspecting a cat tree. On the left, a prefab Chewy.com cat tree sits between two windows, with Dearborn on the lower platform. On the right, @figtreeandvine’s much more durable and pretty cedar tree gets the Dramatic Dearborn treatment as she stands atop two of the upper branches.]