My local independent cinema (of which there is only one in the city) has come under threat. For those not aware of it, the
Arts Picturehouse Cinema in Cambridge is built on top of a Wetherspoons pub. It's a typical Wetherspoons, cheap and nasty, and not a great place to visit on a Saturday night if you're averse to getting into random fights etc.
The link above explains it, but basically the pub has applied for a licence for live and recorded music, and although I'd normally welcome any extra music venues, given that this is Wetherspoons you can pretty much guess what the level of music quality will be. The sticking point is that because the cinema is built above the pub, the sound will be audiable in one of the screens whilst films are showing.
I imagine not many of you will be at all affected/bothered by this, but I'd hate to see the only independent cinema near me ruined by a Wetherspoons of all places, so if anybody cares enough to either register disapproval with Cambridge Council (email address in link above), or even just pass this on to someone you think might be interested, I'd be grateful.
Cheers!
― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Thanks Archel!
And yes, the idea of 'live music' at the regal is pretty bizarre. Unless it's 'Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting'. Possibly. It's the idea that I will be watching some incredibly slow-paced, quiet film, which will be interrupted in a very important moment to the sound of "My Humps"
― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Does this mean that all Wetherspoons pubs might now change to having music? That was the only point of them, surely.
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 February 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link