The Windmill, Brixton - pub details
Address: 22, Blenheim Gardens, Brixton, London, SW2 5BZ [map] [gmap]
Tel: 020 8671 0700
Brixton (0.7 miles), Clapham North (0.8 miles), Clapham Common (0.9 miles)
Brixton (0.8 miles), Herne Hill (0.9 miles), Clapham High Street (0.9 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Live music
Pub suggested by Tom Wallace on 30 Dec 2003
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> Current user rating: 8.4/10 (rated by 11 users)
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user reviews of the Windmill, Brixton
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| Great music venue. Sure it's a bit grotty but that's part of the appeal of an indie venue. Gigs are cheap and they often have some really good stuff on. Well worth seeking out for a visit if you haven't been before. DuchyBoy - 2 Jun 2008 13:04 |
| Yeay! Go the Windmill!!! Its certainly isn't a place to get twatty about. Bands playing live most nights, cheap door prices to see real up and coming stuff. BBQs in the summer and a bit of outdoor space, even if Blenheim Gardens is a low level housing estate on Brixton Hill (ie not a rolling meadow or picturesque canalside)! And I'm going to see the Wombats on Friday, waaaahhheeeeeyyyyy!!!!! anonymous - 6 Mar 2007 13:46 |
| Go for the bands and the atmosphere, concern yourself with drinking and mingling and you can't go far wrong. Not a pub to get all twatty about. theStickler - 15 Feb 2007 02:06 |
| Good music, awful venue. Cramped, and badly laid out, the stage should be 3 meters to the left instead of tucked away behind the bar. I've had better experiences at the Mean Fiddler?! bumpby - 16 Oct 2005 11:09 |
| The first impressions of the Windmill are that it would look a lot better from the driving seat of a bulldozer. In an avenue of elegant Victorian houses, the Windmill is a monstrous, ugly block that has little architectural merit other than to act as a bad example of taste. Armed with reviews from previous visitors I expected a vast improvement inside but to be frank it was little better once through the door. Having read about the “finest ceiling in London” I was somewhat disappointed to find little more than what looked like a failed o-level art class project. The bar was probably knocked up by their colleagues in the woodwork class and the whole place was a design disaster with the bar taking up so much space that the punters are confined to a narrow corridor that leads down the stage area. The beers were the basic keg varieties and there are no real ales despite there being hand pumps available. The prices were very good for a music pub – little more than the average pub price. The toilets are surprisingly clean, spacious and hardly a sign of any vandalism or graffiti aside from the odd band promo sticker. Of course, the main reason anyone ventures near the place is to see the live bands and there is a good selection of live music almost every night with several notable bands having played here in their embryonic stages. Most gigs are £4 admission and for that you will normally get 3 bands. Actually seeing the bands however, is a nightmare. With the stage little more than 6 inches off the ground and in a blind spot from 75% of the pub you are lucky to get even the briefest glimpse of the action. If there are more than 15 people standing in front of the stage you will not see a thing – I am well over 6ft and saw little more than the tops of the artist’s heads. By way of compensation, the sound quality was very good and the bands I saw were very professional. In a nutshell, the Windmill as a pub is a dump, but as part of the live music “toilet circuit” it has an important role in the development of up and coming bands and, as a music lover, I applaud it’s efforts and would certainly go back if there is a band I want to see (or at least try to see!). RogerB - 24 Aug 2005 10:41 |
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