The Pembury Tavern, Hackney

This pub looks alright from the outside so I went in one sunday to check it out. It was a bit like someone had turned the gravity up so i was weighed down to the floor a bit uncomfortably. I think the weight was the force of smug. The point of loud music in pubs I suppose, even if its really bad, is to drown out the offensively inane conversations of the w**kers around you. Here unfortunately it was deathly musicless so I was forced to take in all the noise pollution of people talking over-loudly about mortgages. Children ran around. The lights were bright. It seemed that everything good about being a pub had been sucked out of it and replaced with a kind of theme park of anxiety inducement.

12 Oct 2008 21:11