Yes There's Cold on The Way, But Looky Looky

After a couple of days of sunshine, I almost thought spring was on the way, but this weekend there's more cold stuff coming...

Luckily for you lot, the most wonderful Chris Coco is coming down with a Melodica Recordings crew to bliss you up with some Balearic warmth this Saturday. Full details are here

Then we are rolling into March, the pool table will be relocated to it's summertime position so the grumpy old man won't complain quite so much, and we will be heading into Easter with some of our most exciting events yet...

Friday 1st of March sees our favourite friends, The Eccentrics Disco wheel their Genie-esque boxes of tricks and sounds into The G for the perfect way to start your weekend. Last month's was amazing, even though our special guest Severino hurt his ankle so had to cancel at the last minute.
You can hear the full recordings here

That gives us barely enough time to draw breathe before our new pop up project, 2 Dinners, 1 Lunch takes over the upstairs kitchen and gallery space for a weekend of culinary amazingness. There's 3 sittings and only 30 seats in each. These tickets are hot hot hot, available in person at the bar, or at http://grubclub.com

As we roll towards Easter, there are more things planned, and especially exciting is the rescheduled visit of our favourite Italian DJ Severino on Maundy Thursday 28/03/2013, as part of an Eccentrics Disco Egg Hunt Bunny Hop special... More details soon.

You can't call us, it's fkooked

If you are trying to contact us today (and possibly tomorrow, the 15th), the best way would be by twitter or email, or possibly facebook...

@TheGowlettArms is our tweet thingy

and our true fb page (there are believe it or not, others!) is here

you can email us here

Jx

NEW YEARS EVE TICKETS NOW ON SALE!!

GOWLETT NEW YEARS CARWASH LUCKY 7S

Tickets are selling fast. £15 gets you free fizz, 8 hours of mayhem and free Bloody Mary at the survivors New Years Day Party... I hurt already...

TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT!!

Sack off the office party and come here. You'd enjoy it more...


Eccentrics Disco

Well Festive. And A Little Grumpy.

HO HO HO. And that...

Festive opening times are as follows...

Sat 22/12 - Bar 12 - 01:00am
                 Kitchen 12:30 - 22:30
With Live music from The Hometown Boys

Sun 23/12 - Bar 12:00 - 23:30
                  Kitchen 12:30 - 21:00

Mon 24/12 - Bar 12:00 - 01:00
                  Kitchen 12:30 - 21:00

Tues 25/12 - Bar 12:00 - 14:30
                   Kitchen CLOSED

Weds 26/12 - CLOSED

Thurs 27/12 - CLOSED FOR PRIVATE PARTY

Fri 28/12 - Bar 12:00 - 01:00 am
                Kitchen 12:30 - 14:30; 18:30 - 22:30

Sat 29/12 - Bar 12:00 - 01:00 am
                 Kitchen 12:30 - 22:30

Sun 30/12 - Bar 12:00 - 23:30
                  Kitchen 12:30 - 21:00

Mon 31/12 - Bar 12:00 - 15:00
                  Then 20:00 - 04:00 am Ticket only Car Wash Lucky 7s. Tickets available behind bar £15

Tue 01/01 - Bar 11:00 - 01:00am
                 Kitchen 12:30 - 09:00
All day recovery party with DJs and a lot of Bloody Maries...

Beer Beer, We Want More Beer

It's up. It's tapped and it's nearly all ready... So here's a breakdown of what we've got coming up...

Thursday 8th November

Lucky 7s is 5! five whole years you've been inflicting each others' record collections on everyone, and yet it's still going strong. Some of the ales will be ready no doubt, so if you fancy a sneak preview of what's in store over the weekend, come down from 7pm, and we'll get the ball rolling. Bring some 45s if you want to DJ in the pub later...

Friday 9th November

DJ TAYO joins us on the wheels of steel to funk you into the weekend as our beer festival kicks off proper...

Beers featuring:

TATTON ALES - GOLD
OFF BEAT - OUTLANDISH PALE
ROOSTERS - FORT SMITH
WEETWOOD ALES =- AMBUSH
(All from cheshire, and all jolly good. Thanks to The Yew Tree in Bunbury for the erm lost memories... OK so the Roosters is froim N Yorkshire. But we got it from The Yew Tree...)



AMBER - CHOCOLATE ORANGE STOUT
ATLAS - LATITUDE
BIG LAMP - PRINCE BISHOP ALE
BLACK IRIS - PEREGRINE PALE
BLINDMAN'S - ICARUS
CAIRNGORM - SHEEPSHAGGER GOLD
GRAFTERS - WOBBLE GOB
HADRIAN & BORDER - REIVER IPA
INVERALMOND - THRAPPLEDOUSER
NORTHUMBERLAND - BUCKING FASTARD
TRIPLE FFF - PRESSED RAT AND WARTHJOG
TSA - STERLING BRIG
YEOVIL - SUMMERSET ALE
ALLENDALE - WOLF
BROWN COW - THRILLER IN VANILLA
WYLAM - GOLD TANKARD

PLUS 2 LOCAL GEMS FROM OUR FAVE S LONDON BREWERS CLARENCE & FREDERICKS

Ciders featuring :

BROADOAK - MOONSHINE
BURNARD'S - OAKEY DOKEY
ORCHARD PIG - NAVEL GAZER
MR WHITEHEADS - CIRRUS MINOR.

Saturday 10th November

The beer festival stumbles into another 12 hours of bare existence, ably aided and abetted by our very own King of the Blues IDRIS DAVIES, who will be joined later on by the wonderful ANDREW BAZELY, who some of you will have seen playing a great set on a sunday afternoon a month or so ago... So good we got him back. Later still DJ TESTIFY  will ramp it up a bit from his psychobilly, rock'n'roll and R&B collection.



Sunday 11th November - OUR 9TH GOWLETT BIRTHDAY!!


If you came last year, you know no trip to The Gowlett Beer Festival is complete without a large portion of meat. This year we will be serving up Hoggett (year old lamb) and Blytheburgh free range pork back to back on a charcoal spitroast... Local hero turned ex-pat Steve Smith is back as one half of THE RETRO BROTHERS playing a not to be missed set from 2 til 4, and if everything works out we will have a very special guest band, THE HOMETOWN BOYS, appearing early evening, to leave THE MIGHTY TREVOR to close things up... There may even be a cake for me to fall into...

Phew... I'm off to bed. This looks like it could be a very large few days!

jonny

I know, I know

Yes, our page never gets updated. But I promise over the coming months to be a lot better. Or at the very least get someone who's better at it than me to do it...

Anyhoo, the reason for my sudden burst of blogtivity (I do hope I just invented that), is that there's loads of exciting stuff happening over the next few weeks...

Next week on the 26th sees the return of our favourite Friday nighters, The Great British Eccentric Disco, who make the place feel even more lovely than it normally does with their amazing ballearica, their uber sweet speakers and their almost too sexy for words Urei 1620 mixer. At least I think it's a 1620. It looks like one to me. Whatever, they play top tunes and it sounds amazing. Once they're done we are all heading off to The Bussey Building for the first installment of Boom Boom Room, but you can read more about that here

Whilst we are on the subject of exciting, The G is 9 next month, and like last year we are going to rip the arris out of it, throwing a 4 day long set of parties with DJs, live bands, hog roasts, BBQs, all alongside our annual beer festival. This year there will be 20 casks in the garden, 4 ever rotating ones inside, and at least 6 ciders from around the country. Our main focuses beer wise this year is Scotland and Cheshire, the beers have been selected and we are literally gagging to try them. All of them!

Our current special pizza features @smokedinpeckham home cured spicy wild boar, gowlett rooftop grown yellow tomatoes & red peppers, and pecorino. Hurry though because when it's all gone it's all gone.

I'll be back next week(or possibly the one after) with more inane nonsense, but do get in touch if you feel the urge to find out more.

jonny@thegowlett.com