Bakers to close

zuroph

Wanted to put this seperate to the business closing thread til after weekend to allow as many people see it as possible,

tomorrow night Bakers shuts up for the last time. I believe the Wicked chicken is going with it. Sad times.


Get yourself along to the final gig to say goodbye.

sioda

Bakers i must admit havent fequented in years but the chicken a huge loss. No more foreign beers good music and good craic and decent kebab afterwards. Plus where will mickeys staff go on their breaks and nights off.

zuroph

cobblestones would have made a class brewhouse.

Berty

zuroph wrote: »

cobblestones would have made a class brewhouse.

We'll see yet.

sioda

Berty what do you know?

zuroph

itd be an epic brewhouse, built perfectly for it. theres also another venue opening up town in a few weeks that i expect to pick up a bit of that business also.

lorcanthrope

Wow... I'm moving from Limerick in two weeks and I'm very sad to see Bakers go... had far too much of a good time in there over the years.

Amazotheamazing

Surprised the Chicken is closing, haven't been there in an age but it always seemed busy enough.

Casperbhoy

Big Loss to Limerick:mad:

Insect Overlord

zuroph wrote: »

Wanted to put this seperate to the business closing thread til after weekend to allow as many people see it as possible,

tomorrow night Bakers shuts up for the last time. I believe the Wicked chicken is going with it. Sad times.


Get yourself along to the final gig to say goodbye.

Do you have a source for this? As a patron of both establishments for over 4 years, I'm particularly interested in this story.

AaronEnnis

Looks like the dank of Costellos will have to suffice...

Big loss though, had some great nights and many many hazy memories of the place.

bullets

Limerick needs a new Quinns!
/thread

~B

Insect Overlord

Just saw their Facebook page. I can't believe it.

the drifter

no no this cant be...i refuse to believe it...

tof2006

:eek: big loss, and in a very short notice ( they had a couple of bands lined up ....)

RonMexico

The writing is on the wall for the city.

I suspect that this summer is going to be the end for a lot of businesses.

kilburn

Thats terrible, used to like the Chicken but it had gotten very quiet over the last few months.

CiaranMT

F*ck sake.

Last time I was in there during RAG Week, they were pretty empty. Sad to see.

Insect Overlord

Hopefully someone who cares about the Bakers/Wicked Chicken legacy will be able to re-open it once things start to turn around again. It'd be great if someone new could take it on and stay true to what made it such a great place for so long.

Berty

About 6 years ago I know somebody who was considering taking over the license but there were massive debts on it. They ran away rather quick.

Unfortunately this climate is much worse so the likelyhood that somebody could even entertain the idea is slim.

JerryHandbag

Damn shame. This makes me sad. Sign of the times

Amazotheamazing

Just had a last pint in there. Very sad to see it closing tbh. Remember sneaking in there when I was underage and remember when it closed before. Hopefully it'll be brought back again.

h3000

Balls

seachto7

I wouldn't say it's the death knell for the city. How come Costelloes always seems to have a crowd around through thick and thin.

It's a bad blow for alternative venues in Limerick. Where can original bands play now? Only in Dolans?

pappyodaniel

Where are us trendy hipsters all gonna go now? Mickey's is just too small and Cobblestone Joe's is also too small.

krudler

pappyodaniel wrote: »

Where are us trendy hipsters all gonna go now?

Ironically go to Icon

Kess73

bullets wrote: »

Limerick needs a new Quinns!
/thread

~B

Better yet, Limerick needs the old Quinns back.

donutheadhomer

Kess73 wrote: »

Better yet, Limerick needs the old Quinns back.

in complete agreement

moby2101

Shame to see it go..

Its been YEARS since I've been in Bakers...Spent WAAAAAAY too many Saturday nights there around 94 -98 !!

Great Days
Anyone remember the kick-ass cover's band Easy Singles that used to play there on Saturday nights??
They were incredible, they could literally play anything from the Beatles to the Wonderstuff!!!
Then the Club downstairs played the best indie set around at the time...
Great great memories!!

As a previous poster said, Limerick is in a dire situation...Hopefully having an influential Cabinet Minister will bring some much needed direct investment into our proud City.

Simon Adebisi

Just saw this Big loss. Literally no good pubs for music left. Unless you like Diddly aye.

vkid

was never a fan of the night club but the Wicked Chicken will be missed even though it was dead quiet last few times i was there..

JerryHandbag

seachto7 wrote: »

It's a bad blow for alternative venues in Limerick. Where can original bands play now? Only in Dolans?

Perhaps Costelloes might be tempted to go that route now...although I cant really think where they could fit it in, an extension to the dodgy smoking cage area?

Grumpypants

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Perhaps Costelloes might be tempted to go that route now...although I cant really think where they could fit it in, an extension to the dodgy smoking cage area?

I can remember band playing in Costello's they set up on the dance floor lol. long time ago.

Chicken will be missed.

bigpink

zuroph wrote: »

itd be an epic brewhouse, built perfectly for it. theres also another venue opening up town in a few weeks that i expect to pick up a bit of that business also.

As in like the Francesian Well in Cork type place?

bigpink

Berty wrote: »

We'll see yet.

Like the Francesian Well they going to start brewing there own beer?

Berty

bigpink wrote: »

Like the Francesian Well they going to start brewing there own beer?

Nope, rather I sell it to them!!!

zuroph

get a baar to stock schiehallion, hooked on the stuff!

bigpink

Anyone know why its closing?

The Wicked Chicken seemed to have gone very quiet last year or so

zuroph

bigpink wrote: »

Anyone know why its closing?

The Wicked Chicken seemed to have gone very quiet last year or so

and the award for answering your own question goes to...



losing a lot a week just to stay open. heard figures today but wont post as they're hearsay.

bigpink

The reason i ask is because my brother showed me it on Rooneys property site for ages,as in was the lease/building sold?

Could it re open with new owners?

Seemed to be busy with gigs anyway

zuroph

losing a huge figure a week, ud need a big big bankroll to attempt to make a run of it, by the end they didnt even have money for marketing. its just a poor location.

CiaranMT

The biggest thing I'll miss is the music played by whoever dj-ed in the Chicken. That was so, so good, so different from anything you'd hear in the city.

Insect Overlord

^ That plus one million. Between the music and the lighting/candles, the atmosphere in the Chicken was a fantastic alternative to everything else in town.

Mc Love

I always thought the DJ's they had in the chicked and Mickeys were great - so very different to the ones in the likes of D'Icon etc.

Plus one of my mates did a few nights in Mickeys - havent been in a while though

pappyodaniel

I used to love stepping on one creaky floorboard near the DJ. It always had an effect on the the decks and make a record jump for a split second. :pac:

Also I thought some of the djs had a terrible arrogance to them. The "I'm only playing music by bands you've never heard before!" brigade. I'm a firm believer in mixing it up. I also never liked those dubstep nights mainly because I hate dubstep.

CiaranMT

pappyodaniel wrote: »

I used to love stepping on one creaky floorboard near the DJ. It always had an effect on the the decks and make a record jump for a split second. :pac:

Also I thought some of the djs had a terrible arrogance to them. The "I'm only playing music by bands you've never heard before!" brigade. I'm a firm believer in mixing it up. I also never liked those dubstep nights mainly because I hate dubstep.

They played dubstep?? This just gets worse... How did I miss those

Tbh I'd prefer if more DJs had the balls to play good music for it's own sake and not whatever was the flavour of the month. Something no-one in Limerick does, apart from a friend's Hip-Hop night which only runs every two weeks.

MmmmmCheese

Only heard about this today. Bakers was my favourite place to go out in Limerick, it was a place to just chill out and listen to some music, I discovered it when I was 16 when we couldn't get in anywhere else . Its the only place of its kind in the city (with the possible exception of Costello's, but still its not the same.)

It was always very busy during my first year of college, particularly on Thursday and Saturday nights, but I noticed the crowd starting to thin out last Summer and it didn't pick up even when college started back. (And it had a loyal group of regulars.) Still I didn't think that this is what would become of Bakers. And I'm out of the country so I couldn't even be there for the send off!