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director
Joined: Oct 17, 2001
Posts: 33
From: Downpatrick
|  Posted: 2003-09-06 17:30
So, what do people think of the new 'Pub Profile' (on the front page)? Is it a good description of what the Forge is like? How do you think we can improve it to encourage people who haven't been yet to come?
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Steve
Joined: Apr 27, 2003
Posts: 4
From: Dpk
| Posted: 2003-09-08 19:14
I think the Forge should have nites where ppl get a free cocktail or a games nite cuz Hogans seems to be taking all the biz. I think it would liven the place up, went there for a drink on Sat nite(6/9) and it was totally dead.
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Indigo2
Joined: Feb 11, 2002
Posts: 200
From: Lecale
| Posted: 2003-09-08 20:59
Mmmm maybe agree about Saturday, but on Friday---I was in both the Forge and Hogan's and they were equally quiet---looks like Downpatrick's just not the place to be these days  Didn't like the crowd in Hogan's either
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Indigo2
Joined: Feb 11, 2002
Posts: 200
From: Lecale
| Posted: 2003-09-10 21:07
What happens on a Games night? It will be interesting to see if True Red says anything about this stuff. It looks like what Hogan's does on a Saturday night is fairly set in stone now so maybe if the Forge did something totally different it would be popular, like the discos on Thursdays competing with the karaoke went well.
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alcomoholic
Joined: Jul 17, 2002
Posts: 23 | Posted: 2003-09-23 23:56
to liven tings up in the forge, ur gunna ada change that DJ, same tunes every friday n sat nite, have guest DJ's like hogans has lisa pin up on fri nite, its the same DJ every nite n hes crap!! y dont you build a roof over the beer garden n chnage it into a dance floor uz da other one is wayyyyyyyyyyy too small n you an even move!
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Indigo2
Joined: Feb 11, 2002
Posts: 200
From: Lecale
| Posted: 2003-09-24 14:04
Well I think the dance floor is a good size now for the amount of people that are there; you should come down on a Saturday around 11 now to see and it is just right. The music is always the same but is that not a good point?
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-cuz.i.want.it.all-
Joined: Mar 05, 2002
Posts: 125 | Posted: 2003-09-27 11:11
eh NO.. theme nights people THEME NIGHTS .. lil bit of variation never hurt anyone.
forge needs a huAge makeover.. 'member central park when it was all shot n rundown n NO-ONE went?
well now its bOOMin, cuz cp refurnished.
f uck tha 'cosy atmospheric' thing .. that doesn't pull tha people in anymore.
to be honest.. tha forge has had it's day n tha only way to make a comeback is by altering it's image .. not by submitting a descriptive paragraph in yellow text on tha website.
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director
Joined: Oct 17, 2001
Posts: 33
From: Downpatrick
| Posted: 2003-09-27 12:02
Agree the descriptive paragraph is much more about how it used to be like than what it is now---more the idea is to convey the 'Forge experience' of the last few years to people who haven't been or who want to reminisce than to make new people come...this is meant to be more of a Forge enthusiast website than an advertising one and probably I should try to move it back in that direction....
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director
Joined: Oct 17, 2001
Posts: 33
From: Downpatrick
| Posted: 2003-09-29 16:32
OK but I think it's important to make the distinction between what would bring people back and what turned them away---e.g. a refurbishment and makeover would probably bring crowds back (has been proven time and time again with lots of pubs and clubs although I remain convinced there must be an alternative route) but that does not necessarily mean that the crowds departed because a refurbishment was needed. Make any sense? More thoughts to come later...
[ This Message was edited by: director on 2003-09-29 16:33 ]
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The Ant Eater
Joined: Jul 24, 2002
Posts: 22
From: Downpatrick
| Posted: 2003-09-29 20:25
To bring people back get rid of the kids and get a lick of paint on the place and mabye some live bands every other month
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Slagbag03
Joined: Jul 28, 2003
Posts: 59 | Posted: 2003-09-30 14:26
Is it true that the forge is up for sale?
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Indigo2
Joined: Feb 11, 2002
Posts: 200
From: Lecale
| Posted: 2003-09-30 20:38
I kinda agree with you now cuz.i.want.it.all; maybe we should get together and buy the Forge and do all that stuff?  Weren't the traffic light discos kind of a theme night (to a certain extent) and brought the crowds (relatively speaking!) back in over the summer...mmmm so maybe it does work.
If I was refurbishing the Forge I would put an upstairs in over the front lounge, with a straight staircase to the right of the front door and a spiral staircase at the side door, and the area between the bar and the dancefloor could have a two-storey high roof with the top floor looking down over a balcony. I will draw the plans........ 
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Slagbag03
Joined: Jul 28, 2003
Posts: 59 | Posted: 2003-10-03 16:00
those discos were crap!
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Indigo2
Joined: Feb 11, 2002
Posts: 200
From: Lecale
| Posted: 2003-10-08 15:21
OK here is my latest plan. Anybody who's been in the Forge recently will have noticed that the walls in the lounge area are now painted white. So, the next step up from this is to put in ultra-violet fluorescent lights to accentuate the white walls. Whirls and logos and motifs could be painted on in various places in fluorescent paint that would only show up under the UV light. These could reflect the vague theme of the rest of the bar (Irish pub? Well it is that so I suppose you can't really call it a theme)
And of course anybody wearing white clothes will also have them glowing purple. And they can play sort of chill-out house music in the evenings from 9:30 up to about 12:00 and stop the music and put the normal lights back on then, so people won't feel bad about leaving then and going to a real nightclub (i.e. Hogan's). But the Forge could be a great sort of 'disco bar' where people would go before a late night clubbing. After 12 maybe the Forge could stay open for people who didn't want to go out clubbing and just put MTV on the big screen or something or maybe have a normal disco (60s/70s/80s music) if there was a big demand.
This could be on Fridays, Saturdays and maybe Sundays. They could keep the disco lights in and still have a normal disco on occasional Thursdays and Wednesdays and when the UV lights were off it would just look like a normal pub.
Should also get the pool table back in. Maybe re-arrange the back and move the gambling machines and knock down the wee wall beside them to make more room to swing your cue around.
What do people think?
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Indigo2
Joined: Feb 11, 2002
Posts: 200
From: Lecale
| Posted: 2003-10-08 15:29
They would have to make all the changes in one go and close for a few days and paint the outside and then have a big promotion and opening night prob. on a Friday for it to work. That would be a big well-advertised night so people would come to see what it was like and then they would have a good time so they would come again (isn't that how this fickle crowd thing works?...)
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