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Utopia
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GUBU, a pub on Capel Street, Dublin. Taken 23rd December 2005
Thats my mate Mark getting served at the bar. We met by accident on my way home from work - so it seemed like a good idea to have a Christmas pint.
Poor Old Gubu. It closed before Christmas and re-opened as something else - Panti Bar, I think. Its now a drag queen bar - something that Dublin never knew it needed and as far as current traffic suggests, still does not know that it needs. Its an odd bar that in its old incarnation, as above, was more about lazer beams playing pool downstairs versus DIT students from Bolton Street and a bearish-leather crowd of fellas upstairs who didnt seem to care it was on the wrong side of the Liffey. These groups were catered to by a couple of mellow straight barmen and some very large yet humorous bouncers. The new bar appears to have decided both sorts of clientele were superfluous to its needs and so this drag queen concept took off. Theres a small and energetic crowd who love the drag circuit but spread as it is (like a thong around a rotund curate) the bar is suffering along with most other gay bars in the city. The barmen now may be prettier but miss out on service and command of the English language. Hopefully it will evolve and survive - always the romantic I will try it again sometime although music from the 80s during the early evening is never a good idea - especially when its not hum-along.
Utopia
See more images of Dublin on www.robertbohanphotography.com/dublin.html
GUBU, a pub on Capel Street, Dublin. Taken 23rd December 2005
Thats my mate Mark getting served at the bar. We met by accident on my way home from work - so it seemed like a good idea to have a Christmas pint.
Poor Old Gubu. It closed before Christmas and re-opened as something else - Panti Bar, I think. Its now a drag queen bar - something that Dublin never knew it needed and as far as current traffic suggests, still does not know that it needs. Its an odd bar that in its old incarnation, as above, was more about lazer beams playing pool downstairs versus DIT students from Bolton Street and a bearish-leather crowd of fellas upstairs who didnt seem to care it was on the wrong side of the Liffey. These groups were catered to by a couple of mellow straight barmen and some very large yet humorous bouncers. The new bar appears to have decided both sorts of clientele were superfluous to its needs and so this drag queen concept took off. Theres a small and energetic crowd who love the drag circuit but spread as it is (like a thong around a rotund curate) the bar is suffering along with most other gay bars in the city. The barmen now may be prettier but miss out on service and command of the English language. Hopefully it will evolve and survive - always the romantic I will try it again sometime although music from the 80s during the early evening is never a good idea - especially when its not hum-along.