{"id":4438,"date":"2011-06-03T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2011-06-03T01:25:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T00:25:55","slug":"wednesday-night-in-brixton-satay-bar-and-the-music-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wednesday-night-in-brixton-satay-bar-and-the-music-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"A boozy Wednesday night in Brixton at the Satay and Music Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/satay-bar-music-bar-brixton-01.jpg\" alt=\" Wednesday night in Brixton - Satay Bar and the Music Bar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday is in danger of turning into the new Thursday (which is apparently already the new Friday) around Brixton town, with some great free nights out on offer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/satay-bar-music-bar-brixton-02.jpg\" alt=\" Wednesday night in Brixton - Satay Bar and the Music Bar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We popped into the Dogstar and Albert before meeting up for a friend&#8217;s birthday drink at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sataybar.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Satay Cocktail Bar &amp; Restaurant<\/a> on 447 Coldharbour Lane, SW9.<\/p>\n<p>Well, they say &#8216;Cocktail&#8217; bar but when we arrived at 10.15pm we were told that they weren&#8217;t doing any, which was a bit of a bummer for a birthday\u00a0celebration.<\/p>\n<p>We settled for a round of beers instead but couldn&#8217;t get too comfy as we learnt that the place closes at the exact stroke of 11pm on weekdays &#8211; and that&#8217;s 11pm as in &#8220;we want you out of the door at that moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/satay-bar-music-bar-brixton-03.jpg\" alt=\" Wednesday night in Brixton - Satay Bar and the Music Bar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With beers swiftly bolted down under the guise of the insistent doorman, we headed up the hill to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/musicbar.brixton\" target=\"_blank\">Music Bar<\/a> (aka George IV, 144 Brixton Hill, SW2 1SD).<\/p>\n<p>The last time I visited on a Wednesday night \u00a0(about three months ago) the place was horribly empty, so it was good to see a decent enough crowd dancing to the excellent band &#8211; an 11-piece\u00a0Italian ska covers outfit called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/bumbariupbeatmovement\" target=\"_blank\">Bari Upbeat Movement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/satay-bar-music-bar-brixton-04.jpg\" alt=\" Wednesday night in Brixton - Satay Bar and the Music Bar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now I remember why I woke up with a hangover &#8211; it was the tequila!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/satay-bar-music-bar-brixton-05.jpg\" alt=\" Wednesday night in Brixton - Satay Bar and the Music Bar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The George IV, sorry Music Bar, has kept its pool table and there&#8217;s a large outdoor smoking area,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had some great nights in this boozer in the past, so I wish it all the best for the future. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/musicbar.brixton\" target=\"_blank\">Check out their listings here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday is in danger of turning into the new Thursday (which is apparently already the new Friday) around Brixton town, with some great free nights out on offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,196,193],"tags":[5,1191,37],"class_list":["post-4438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-nightlife","category-places","tag-bands","tag-brixton","tag-clubs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/satay-bar-music-bar-brixton-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-19A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4442,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions\/4442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}