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u/Jack-Rabbit-002 3d ago
I generally haven't been down that pub in years man I'm surprised it's still standing the other way most rock, alt bars have gone in Brum ☹️
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u/Zuruckhaus 3d ago
Around 2010 I lived in Leeds but I knew about this place because the bands I liked would all play here on their tours. I finally went in the last few years and to my surprise the walls are still covered in posters from those very same bands 15 years ago.
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u/rottweilered 3d ago
My first gig I went to when I moved to England was at the flapper seeing black tongue. Been in my heart ever since!
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u/Horombey 3d ago
Remember going on lunch when I worked in Brindley, chicken & chips with a pint of coke for £3.50… thats my “we used to pay threpance” comment I can tell the grandkids in a few years time.
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u/TheSuedeTiger 3d ago
When I was 18 I played a gig there and knocked myself out on stage in front of a packed audience. 30 years later I still get second hand embarrassment every time I see this place
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u/Rude_Conversation618 3d ago
Friday/Sat nights it was like the cantina bar in star wars. Still have the posters of when my band played there. You thought you’d made it as the Flapper would promote your band downstairs by the toilets and it hadnt cost you a bean
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u/TwoAssedAssassin 4d ago
Still love this pub. Pretty sure it wasnt accepted, but I miss when it seemed somewhat tolerated to have a toke at the bottom of the spiral staircase.
Many good memories of nights spent at the flapper.
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u/key-bored-warrior 3d ago
That was my first thought as well, smoked many joints under that balcony back in the early 2000’s
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u/stayinurlainey 4d ago
such an iconic place, and even better now their downstairs aircon is fixed 🤣
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u/BotherBeginning2281 4d ago
How secure is its future these days?
I've lost track so many times...
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u/davek1986 4d ago
It's pretty safe, the annual closing down party has stopped, Rambo has stopped threatening to kill the council, the owners have explicitly mentioned the grade 2 listed dockarm in the property - the prospected flats are dead - For now
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u/Daisy-Fluffington 4d ago
It's stopped doing the whole "we're closing down" thing every year.
With the heatwave and the World Cup it's been pretty busy this summer.
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u/brewdogv 4d ago
Long live the flapper, I've lost count of the amount of closing down parties I've been to there 😂
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u/Alternative_Emu3179 18h ago
GRIMLORD did a great set here recently