The Royal Oak, Harlesden - pub details
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Address: 95 High Street, Harlesden, London, NW10 4TS [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 7123) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Willesden Junction (0.3 miles), Harlesden (0.6 miles), Kensal Green (0.9 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- TV, Big screen
- Dartboard (2)
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> Current user rating: 5.9/10 (rated by 17 users)
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user reviews of the Royal Oak, Harlesden
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| My review is all follows. WARNING FOR OTHER MUSICIANS ALSO. The following is FACTUAL information > I was booked in for a gig to play at this bar on 7/1/12 after the landlady had supposedly checked my website i.e. www.lemonrock.com/irishdaniel- and after checking my setlist/availability and MP3's booked me in to play a gig for an agreed fee. > i then set off from Aldershot for the trip to London to play the gig and arrived at this beaten down looking bar which looked like it had not been re-decorated for years. The atmosphere before I had even started was as dead as a dodo. The male toilets where completely gross and it looked like they had not been cleans for weeks at best. The bar actually did look like it was only a matter of time before it fell apart altogether and I am not just saying that. > And then for my main critism: THE ATTITIUDE OF THE LANDLADY. I began my gig at 21:30 as agreed doing a mixture of songs which I have played at various bars to excellent response. Please note the atmosphere was dead before I started and if the Beatles had been playing I still don't think this would have livened things up in this dreary, demeaning, drowsy, derelict, desolate pub. I played various songs including 50's stuff, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Beatles, Drifters, Dubliners etc and I sang to my normal standard. > I was suprised by 10:45 to be approached ny the landlady who told me that the set was now finished as and I quote ' You were crap and I am only paying you half of the agreed fee'. This was shocking to say the least given that all other bars which I have played I have gained a great response. Landlady also claimed ' all my customers have left now' even though the same few people who were there were I started the gig were clearly still there. > Maybe the landlady should have taken responsibility for her own actions by: - Checking my setlist in advance to see if it would go down well in her excuse of a bar like they claimed to have done - Re-decorating the pub and taking some pride in it and keeping it clean rather than making it a run down excuse of bar - TREATING PEOPLE WITH A BIT OF RESPECT. You wouldn't go up and tell a doctor he was crap at his job if he was not able to save a patient from terminal cancer. - This bar seems to have been beyond help in the same matter. No matter how good I was- this women does not seem as if she would have been happy. She even stated that she had been ' Counting the customers- and there were less when I was singing that when I started' - unbelieveable!!- So I am solely the reason for that? Maybe she should look at the state of the bar/ the vibe/ her attitude before pointing the finger at the singer who merely turned up to sing and entertain. If I walked into that bar and seen the state of it - I would walk out too and I am not just saying that because of what happened to me. > Please note: even if I did have an off night vocally etc ( I don't believe I did), played the wrong material and I didn't sound as good as I could have: - does that give the landlady the right to be abusive? - Call me 'Crap'? - Treat musicians with no respect? - Cut your set short? - Blame me for the lack of trade for the bar? - Pay me half of the agreed fee? - Not take responsibility for her own bar but blame it on the musician? Please also note that I did hang around just to see if business picked up after I left the bar and it clearly had not. So this women can get lost as far as I am concerned. I would strongly advise any musicians NOT TO PLAY THERE. But if you do- do so at your own peril - no matter how good you are- the atmosphere is as dead as a dodo at it will drain your soul. As for drinkers- if you like drinking in a run down pub that looks like it hasn't been refurbished in at least 60 years go ahead. But surely there are better bars in the area than this. The attitude of the landlady is attrocious and this reflects on the bars atmosphere. Thank you Daniel thegreatpretender - 8 Jan 2012 12:02 |
| Redecoration now underway (and not before time) and (gasp) Real Ale (although only in bottles!) in the shape of Charles Wells Bombardier. stokec - 11 Dec 2011 19:30 |
| .......and it wasn't that Walsh character. stokec - 23 Oct 2011 16:39 |
| Glorious wedding reception in the function room last night; the place looked fantastic;that Irish bloke off the X Factor was there too. stokec - 23 Oct 2011 16:38 |
| Currently visiting a pub for every station on the London Overground. Did this for Willesden Junction. Very much an Irish pub, apart from some West Indian guys in one corner playing dominos. Quite a nice building. Bit rough. No real ales. Probably not the worst pub in Harlesden. hillzy - 13 Jul 2011 20:14 |
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