The Moon in The Square

On the first level of this multiple level wetherspoons are small stairs up to a platform and down to an addition seating lounge but there still doesn’t seem to be enough seating. Then i realise that there is a second floor where the bar is quiet. Not that an overcrowding at the bar [...]

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Dream Time Arena Bar

Sitting to the left of the main stage and making it that little bit further away from the arena entrance, the dream time bar doesn’t seem to get as crowded as its counterparts. The setup is exactly the same as its sibling temporary bars as a very long hatch served by a [...]

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Walkabout Bar

This walkabout is fairly large. On a Saturday night the street fills with the under aged as try tart themselves up to get inside. Within is a sea of young drunken students, very male dominated with women dotted around like buoys in the open sea. Some of then men masquerade around in masks, dancing [...]

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Reef Bar

Since you have to pay to use the station toilets these ones are all coded up, the week I checked out this establishment the code was 1815. The venue is on the top floor of the station, perched as a large interior with balconies overlooking the bustling station below. Reef bar seems to be [...]

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Bar Vin

A pretty large pub with lots of space between chairs n tables some accompanied by floorboards some by carpet. It looks like it could handle a massive capacity but early on on a Friday its pretty empty. The couple of overhead wide screen TVs are showing some kind of rodeo and coupled with a [...]

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Workers Charter Arena Bar

This temporary bar in the main arena for Reading Festival 2008 was a tad smaller than the other long bars bearing strange names with the same layout but it was a little further from the main stage than the others. The setup consists of a handful for t-shirt uniformed bar staff serving [...]

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Gatecrasher Tent Bar

More specifically the bar in the drum and bass tent, but essentially all indoor bars at gatecrasher summer sound system were the same. Queues for beer, prices at the same cost as bottles of alco-pop were five men deep and the costly affair was not helped by a lack of placesto reside with [...]

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O’ Neills Bar

A split level pub made up of two bars. As with all o’neills bars this one has a woody feel about it and is continually filled. The lower bar is more lively than the pub feel of the first with pop tunes and an array of middle aged drinkers. The location of this [...]

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Student Union Bar

Hollyoaks has far more student aged characters in it than any of the other British soaps and as such the student union bar remains one of the primary meeting spots for many of the characters. Equipped with a pool table and quiz machine and with suitably trashy pop music the venue also has [...]

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Mandela Arena Bar

I always prefer it when a bar actually has a dedicated area for drinking sitting and enjoying beverages rather than just being am elaborate alcoholic canteen. Although I do have to say these bars are impressive operations. Glancing around the back reveals that the beer pumps are fed directly from beer tankers and [...]

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