Aine and Aoife Doherty are testament to Goodbye Blue Monday’s employment policy that we only hire people that we have known since they were born. These are people that won’t steal off you. So, in honour of them being our two best staff members, and the council elections, we’re running a “Who’s your favourite Doherty [...]

Awesome party on Saturday night with Von Klap supported by the ever-talented Nadia Reid. Thanks to everyone who came out after the aftershocks to support the band. It was really nice to see every-one’s faces again and to see the pub, which has been sitting sad and lonely, humming again. For the record, this is [...]

Guys. Forget any other plans you might have had. We have an awesome weekend’s entertainment coming up. Friday night we are proud to be hosting The Pickups. We are big fans of Will Daymond and if the music is anywhere near as cool as his hair, it’s sure to be a blast. Then on Saturday [...]

A marketing whiz recently looked over my business and told me this blog was too offensive… I had promised to try and tone down the vulgarity, then an opportunity like this presents itself to me… To the owner of the Naughty Boy bum dildo who left in in the toilets on Friday night: Your silicone [...]

To the fan of this site. Sorry for being sloppy with posting. I have been on holiday in Auckland. I will attempt to post with some regularity moving forward. Next week is the next Dr Sketchy’s, so get up Cosmic Corner and get your tickets before they sell out. These nights are always fun and [...]

Thanks to everybody that came down last night to celebrate our re-opening. We were so happy that we had happy hour all night long. Tonight, we’re back into providing Christchurch’s best gigs with Thought Creature and Magic Eye from 10pm. I live very close to the bar so the Poplar Lanes/ High Street area is [...]

You’ll all remember Steve of the Month (September); he who once drank the bleachy bucket of beer. It seems that the major aftershock shook Steve’s house so hard that it picked up all the shitty couches, ciggie butts, pornography, and small pieces of cheese from his balcony and dumped them over the railing. We will [...]

We have it from strong sources that the earth continues to rotate around the sun and life goes on. A eerie sense of normality has started to return and the streets slowly fill with people going about their lives. Life still feels strange with cops and the army on many corners, but on the whole [...]

Sorry folks. We won’t be open this weekend. We are hoping to be up-and-running next week. Tommy Ill were supposed to be playing Saturday but instead they will be playing at a house party. I’m sure if you’re in the right circles, you will hear where this house is. Otherwise, Al’s Bar looks like a [...]

Now that the earthquake danger has subsided, we can begin playing the “Fuck That Was Close” game. Here’s my first one. 17 minutes before the big quake struck, I took this photo of Rosie and Aine. We had just finished work and were heading home to fry the aforementioned halloumi. Look how carefree they are, [...]