Cheap booze
Is the Tower in Hull still open? Student night on a Wednesday was a grim affair, but the enticement was the 20p pint. Oh, God. The women's rugby teams of two universities could be described as cheap tat, too.


On the other hand, denizens of Hull might also be familiar with Spiders, which was a heaven of cheap booze - notably, in the form of their version of the pan-galactic gargle-blaster. For the uninitiated, take a pint glass; insert one measure each of vodka, pernod, galliano and blackcurrant cordial; add a bottle of fresh orange juice; throw in a bit of ice; top up with dry cider; charge £2.30 for the lot. Falling over was inexpensive and easy :)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 13:11, 7 replies)

Tower and Spiders
My god, I remember those. Tower was a right hole, but student night was great!
And the pangalacticgargleblaster........many a night spent on that!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 15:48, closed)

ahhhh spiders
i'd forgotten about that place. strange milk based cocktails for under a quid and munters as far as the eye could see!
(supersupermatt, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 17:30, closed)

woo hull
Tower doesn't exist anymore (apparently it shut in 2000, I got here in 2003), but the students union runs a night called "The Tower" on Wednesdays with the same DJ and that. unfortunately the days of 20p pints are long gone though, cheapest you can get there is a pint of Snakebite for £1.20.

Spiders is still going strong, although they recently put their drinks prices up :( (only by about 20p or so, but it's still a bit of a kick in the nuts).
(squirrelking has never seen anyone shit like that before, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 20:08, closed)

so.. are we now the offical Hull club?
btw: spiders has sold out music wise. still, 75p shots

woo
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Sat 5 Jan 2008, 15:13, closed)

20p pints? Thats just too wrong to even contemplate
Flacketts in Stoke, however, have had £1 a pint Mondays for at least the last 10 years and still going strong, while all their competition have gone out of business and reopened, charging silly money for pints.
(bblgoose, Sat 5 Jan 2008, 15:18, closed)

Spiders
Ahh, many a night with good music killing myself with PGGBs.

Of course everything went to shit around 2001, when the music took a nosedive straight into children's records.
(DigitalRaven will have to make do with gin, Sat 5 Jan 2008, 18:50, closed)

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Ah... I last went to Spiders in June 1998, and have fond memories of watching the sun rise from the top of a warehouse the outside of which E, D and I climbed afterwards. Sad that it's declined since then.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 10:50, closed)