A wonderful portrait.
A unique, warm and free spirit who lived his life outside of the mainstream. They rarely go the full distance, but leave the world a far richer place.
Its so sad how conformist and clinical society is becoming…
Jorge Espinha
2 years ago
“In 1996, the room was the scene of a furious showdown between actress Patsy Kensit and her then-boyfriend, Liam Gallagher. Glasses and snooker balls were thrown, and Gallagher ended up trashing not just the table but the room itself.
Other moments, too, became Groucho legend: Melvyn Bragg chatting to U2; Friends star Matt LeBlanc propping up the bar alone one Saturday night; Dancer Wayne Sleep once took Princess Diana there for lunch — and handed her the bill. On one memorable night in 1995, Damien Hirst put his £20,000 Turner Prize money behind the downstairs bar.”
Oh dear, I missed all that! In pretty much every European big city there was a Groucho club filled with analogues to the towering intellectual figures of Liam Gallagher, Patsy Kensit or the U2 and with a sad court jester doing the honours. In my former life, I worked in the trendy part of Lisbon as a barman and can testify that when you are drunk or/and on drugs everybody is beautiful and interesting.
Frederick B
2 years ago
Never understood why there are Albanians in England at all. The country has never been in the EU or the Commonwealth, so why? What added value do Albanian gangsters bring to Britain?
A wonderful portrait.
A unique, warm and free spirit who lived his life outside of the mainstream. They rarely go the full distance, but leave the world a far richer place.
Its so sad how conformist and clinical society is becoming…
“In 1996, the room was the scene of a furious showdown between actress Patsy Kensit and her then-boyfriend, Liam Gallagher. Glasses and snooker balls were thrown, and Gallagher ended up trashing not just the table but the room itself.
Other moments, too, became Groucho legend: Melvyn Bragg chatting to U2; Friends star Matt LeBlanc propping up the bar alone one Saturday night; Dancer Wayne Sleep once took Princess Diana there for lunch — and handed her the bill. On one memorable night in 1995, Damien Hirst put his £20,000 Turner Prize money behind the downstairs bar.”
Oh dear, I missed all that! In pretty much every European big city there was a Groucho club filled with analogues to the towering intellectual figures of Liam Gallagher, Patsy Kensit or the U2 and with a sad court jester doing the honours. In my former life, I worked in the trendy part of Lisbon as a barman and can testify that when you are drunk or/and on drugs everybody is beautiful and interesting.
Never understood why there are Albanians in England at all. The country has never been in the EU or the Commonwealth, so why? What added value do Albanian gangsters bring to Britain?
Diversity? I was once called Albanian by a drunken Liverpoolian after refusing him a drink. Oh the memories!
More Morse than Midsomer then?
Pretty it up how you like, but it sounds pretty squalid. What kind of idiot would put himself in hock to an Albanian drug gang?
Drugs.
Make a man stupid.
What a ghastly place
I’m enjoying the podcast. Had never heard of the club before.