Wednesday 12 February 2025.
Wednesday 12 February 2025...11.30am to 2.30pm...
FORDS GIN - brunch - Hawksmoor, 11 Langley Street , Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2.
The invite for this lunchtime event was from last night's Top 50 Cocktail Bars as Fords Gin were one of the sponsors.
Around 40 or 50 folks are here from last night.
A DJ is playing tunes in the background.
We had a guitarist play 30 mins of cover songs.
Plenty of space as everyone had a table.
Complimentary drinks and food included two different FORDS
GIN cocktails , including Bloody Mary and soft drinks from Franklin & Sons Ltd and lovely food.
Steak & Fried Egg Sandwich
Bacon Sandwich
Sausage Sandwich
Hash Browns
All guests got a goodie bag with a FORDS GIN sweatshirt and
t-shirt.
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Tuesday 11 February 2025...6.45pm to 10.45pm...
TOP 50 COCKTAIL BARS at Underglobe at The Swan,
Bankside, London SE1.
Around 300 guests here from the various bars on the list.
There was a DJ playing tunes before and after the awards.
The awards countdown started at 8.30pm for 45 mins.
It got very lively as folks were cheering when their bar was called.
Lots of complimentary drinks and food here.
Over a dozen different cocktails from brands including Jack Daniels , Woodford Reserve, Monkey Shoulder, Fords Gin,
Courvoisier, Herradura Tequila , Vapoura Rum and Golden Egg Vodka....and beers....and different bowl food including Katsu Chicken Curry & Rice .
Top 5 Cccktail Bars were...
1. SATAN' S WHISKERS - Bethnal Green London.
2. PANDA AND SONS - Edinburgh .
3. SCHOFIELDS BAR - Manchester.
4. COUCH - Stirchley , West Midlands.
5. TAYER + ELEMENTARY - Shoreditch, London.
www.top50cocktailbarslist.com - Visit their website here for the Top 50 Cocktail Bars list.
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Monday 10 February 2025.
A downside of getting older is your fave musicians suffer ill health and even worse.
Welsh music legend MIKE PETERS has had a rough few years with his battling cancer, and now it's DAVID JOHANSEN, who is the sole surviving member of the legendary New York Dolls.
An update from his daughter...
My name is Leah Hennessey, and I’m David Johansen’s daughter. As some, but not many of you know, David has been in intensive treatment for stage 4 cancer for most of the past decade.
Five years ago at the beginning of the pandemic we discovered that David’s cancer had progressed and he had a brain tumor. There have been complications ever since. He’s never made his diagnosis public, as he and my mother Mara are generally very private people, but we feel compelled to share this now, due to the increasingly severe financial burden our family is facing.
To make matters worse, the day after Thanksgiving David fell down the stairs and broke his back in two places.
After a week in the hospital and a successful surgery David has been bedridden and incapacitated. Due to the trauma, David’s illness has progressed exponentially and my mother is caring for him around the clock.
Posted 11th February 2025
