Bowing to the inevitable

Yes, things has moved on and so must we. We have another exciting new website, plus on Facebook and Twitter as @NorthgateRapper.

The sad corollary of this is that we'll be letting this little blog wither on the vine unless we get very bored. Thanks to all who took the time to mail us from here!

No such thing as free beer?

A lovely little crawl last night, comprising as it did The Assembly Inn (twice), The Bell, The Curfew, The Barley Mow and inevitably The Star. Three of the pubs gave us beer for our troubles, which of course made things even nicer for us!

Beer Festival Crawl this Friday

Yes indeed, we're appearing at the splendid Assembly Inn's beer festival on Friday night, albeit on Comedy Night. Are they trying to tell us something? No idea. Whatever, come along and buy us a pint, because we're worth it.

Engaged

Excellent time last night dancing at Vince and Hat's engagement party in The Bell. Thanks to Frank Lee for showing us that Will's melodeon actually has tunes in it, and of course all the very best to the happy couple!

DERT 2012 - The Rapperlympics!

It's 2012, the year of the Diamond Jubilee, the year of the London Olympics... but these events pale into insignificance when compared to the majesty of the rapper world's premier competition: DERT 2012 - The Rapperlympics!

Despite their best efforts, this year's hosts (the inimitable Thrales Rapper) have been unable to provoke the London Olympic Committee into a highly publicised lawsuit over the name. However, the weekend still promises to be the very highlight of the year for those interested in watching lots of rapper sides dancing in pubs in London. It's a fairly specialist fetish, but there you are. And talking of fetishes, this year's pubs are scattered throughout Soho and Camden, which will open the eyes of the younger dancers and the wallets of the more middle-aged ones who simply can't resist a bargain in those delightful markets, darling.

Inevitably, Northgate will be there representing Bath and fully expect to have a very jolly time.

Crawl announcement: Bradford on Avon, 9th March

We haven't been to the delightful pubs of Bradford on Avon for a year or two, so it's time to visit them once more. Look out for us on the night of Friday the 9th of March. We'll be the ones dressed as sword dancers.

Well, it was a little cold...

Last night's crawl was rather truncated due to the incredibly cold temperature (for Bath) of -5 Centigrade. We visited just five pubs, and didn't even dance in one of them! Nevertheless, it was all jolly good fun. We started in the Assembly Inn, crashing a birthday party with a most excellent dance. Next was The Porter, then The Salamander, complete with a lovely Polish lady who turned down our request that in return for our traditional English dancing she show us some traditional Pole dancing. It was worth a try, even if the joke didn't really translate.

The Farmhouse was next, where we interrupted a poetry evening (this is true), then decided it was all getting rather too cold for our delicate knees, so we retired to The Star for a quick one while we decided on a Plan.

However, once settled, there was no way we could muster the courage to brave the freezing cold outside, so we decided that the roaring fire of The Star was preferable to the two mile, sub-zero walk to Larkhall to crash a ceilidh. This was, of course, the original excuse for the crawl. Oh well.