Monday 4 January 2010

The sound of the crowd

I spent a couple of hours early on Saturday night in the Candy Bar in Soho. As a lesbian bar with apparently a rather strict door policy I was unsure of the welcome I would receive. However I found it a welcoming place with high quality bar staff. When I arrived it was rather empty but by the time I left it was packed. What struck me, when I was listening to the crescendo of animated female voices throughout the bar, was that I had never been in a totally female dominated bar before, and as bars are either mixed or male dominated, how out of the ordinary it sounded to me. Pity far more bars aren't like this!

2 comments:

  1. I've had a couple of nice visits to the old Candy Bar (or is it Kandy Bar?), didn't know they had reopened.

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  2. Hi Jess, I don’t know if it is the same place as before. Although Soho it's close to Oxford Street and is a long thin bar with a small pool room upstairs and a downstairs bar/dance area.

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