Stone Roses Bar York

It may have crossed your minds, after reading my previous posts, that I'm quite a little bit fond of that whole Madchester thing. Well you'd be right of course. I enjoy a whole host of varying musics, but especially this era - love everything about it. The bands, the swagger, the attitude, the clobber etc. Everything but the drugs really. I also love the pub it inspired...

This quaint little place in the centre of York is certainly my favourite boozer in the whole wide world. If any normal day lad was going to run a pub, surely this is the model to go with? Classy wall art and framed records, plethora of pool tables, an antique fuss-ball, jukebox, Coors on tap and most importantly Scampi Fries. The women who go in see it as just a pub, the lads who go in see it as an experience, neigh, a way of life. Actually I suppose that's true of most pubs but more so in this one.

Get to visit semi regularly with Hartlepool playing YCFC every year in pre-season, and this makes a nice (and usually quiet) drinking hole prior to watching the ministermen beat us (2-1 this year). Makes going away with Pools that little bit extra special surrounded by all this quality swag on the walls whilst supping a nice cool pint and listening to some solid sounds. Magic.

Strangely two of these bars exist in the UK and are both in Yorkshire (the other in Leeds), suggesting that the Madchester scene broke down the barriers of that whole War of the Roses thing.