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Saturday 20th Feb - Lovedays Album Launch Party
[posted on 18/02/2010]
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Ben Jones and the Lovedays will be launching their new album - "House Of Cards" - at the Barge on Saturday 20th February. Support comes in the form of Phil Dillion.
Admission, as always, is free, and the fun starts around 8.30pm.
Be there or be square!
www.myspace.com/benjonesandthelovedays
www.myspace.com/phildillon |
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Season's Greetings
[posted on 24/12/2009]
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Here's wishing you all a happy Christmas and a prosperous new year, from all at the Barge. |
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Happy Birthday Medway Eyes
[posted on 07/10/2009]
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Happy 1st birthday to the Medway Eyes collective! To celebrate their 1st birthday the group have released a free compilation album and e-zine to download and enjoy! More details at www.medwayeyes.co.uk/me1 |
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Website Outage
[posted on 06/08/2009]
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The Barge website was offline for around 12 hours yesterday (Tuesday 5th August), from 2pm to 2am (ish).
This was due to unidentified gremlins in the inter-tubes.
Apologies to anyone who was trying to connect, I lost all connectivity as well, and it felt like loosing a limb, but it wasn't my fault ;-)
Matt. |
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Happy Birthday Jay!
[posted on 25/07/2009]
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Today (Saturday 25th July) is the birthday of our very own small, hairy sound engineer Jay... Happy birthday Jay!
"Feedback? What f***ing feedback?"
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Listing updates for July/August
[posted on 10/07/2009]
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Greetings Bargees...
There have been a few changes/additions to the Barge gig calendar which missed the most recent mailshot:
Wednesday 15th July - Peter Jackson and the Empire have cancelled. They will be replaced by Harvey, Hooper, Walker and Crispe, playing an acoustic set of classic rock and blues.
Wednesday 29th July - New Acoustic Night - confirmed acts are now: Dave (from The Flowing), Kayley Weller, Minnie Birch and Michael Imerson.
Monday 3rd August - Sublime To The Ridiculous have been replaced by the Janis Haves Duo - Janis is actually part of Sublime To The Ridiculous - www.janishaves.com.
Friday 7th August - The Singing Loins return once again to the Barge. This will be the official launch of their new album 'Unravelling England' - www.singingloins.co.uk.
Monday 17th August - Fran McGillivray & Mike Burke have been put back a week until Monday 24th August. This date will be filled by Selki (featuring Ramona Egle from Camine) - http://sites.google.com/site/kentfolkteam/groups/selkie.
Monday 24th August - Fran McGillivray & Mike Burke (re-scheduled from 17th August).
Monday 31st August - Green Diesel - six-piece folk-rock/acoustic outfit - www.myspace.com/thegreendieseltheory. |
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The Barge is Tweeting!
[posted on 28/06/2009]
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Yes, the Barge has officially joined the 'Web 2.0' social networking revolution and is now a member of Twitter.
Notifications of gigs and news updates will be 'tweeted' once a day around lunchtime.
Visit the Barge's Twitter page at www.twitter.com/thebargepub |
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Photo gallery, soundbytes, etc
[posted on 11/03/2009]
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Oh dear, it looks like we've lost our photos and sound clips... don't know why at the moment, I will try to get it all back ASAP.
Matt. |
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Rugby - Six Nations - Bacon Butties
[posted on 06/02/2009]
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For the duration of the rugby six nations cup, bacon butties will be available at the Barge, courtesy of Josh. |
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--- SEASON'S GREETINGS ---
[posted on 30/12/2008]
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Tim and all the staff at the Barge would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year.
Live music at the Barge continues on Monday 5th Jan with Redeye and Wednesday the 7th of Jan with the 'Bards at the Barge' open-mic night - hope to see you there! |
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Halloween '08 Pictures (at last!)
[posted on 30/11/2008]
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OK, I've finally got around to uploading the pics from this year's Halloween party (and Danny's birthday) - I gave up trying to select the best because there are too many good ones, so I've just uploaded the lot.
View the gallery here.
Matt xx. |
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Quiz Night - Every Sunday
[posted on 20/05/2008]
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Tim and the crew are pleased to announce that the Barge is now hosting a Quiz Night every Sunday evening.
Entrance is £1 per person, teams up to a maximum of 6 people. Cash prizes.
The quiz starts at 8.30pm prompt, so come along and join in the fun. |
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RSS feed of gig dates now available
[posted on 26/03/2008]
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For those of you who know about such things, we now have an RSS feed of forthcoming gigs at the Barge.
The feed is updated daily and lists all gigs for the next month.
To access the feed point your RSS reader thingy at:
www.thebargepub.co.uk/bargegigs.rss |
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Live at the Barge - SoundBYTES
[posted on 31/01/2008]
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In case you haven't yet noticed, please take a look at our SoundBytes page where you can hear recordings of live music at the Barge. We're constantly adding more tracks so check back often to see what's new.
www.thebargepub.co.uk/soundbytes.php |
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Trafalgar Day Report - over £500 raised for RNLI
[posted on 07/11/2007]
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The Barge's Trafalgar Day event was a huge success, with over £500 being raised for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI).
Live music started at 3pm with an 'open-mic' slot until 5pm when the featured performers took over until 11pm. The music was excellent throughout with a wide variety of styles on offer (see below for list of performers).
Amazingly everyone turned up on time, shedules were adhered to and things ran very smoothly indeed - all credit to Gastove for making it all happen.
A big 'thank you' to Gastove (organiser), Jay (sound engineer), all the performers, Tim, Ellie, Mark and Mike (bar persons), and everyone who turned up on the day and did their bit for this very worthwhile cause.
Photos from the day can be seen here.
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Halloween Report
[posted on 02/11/2007]
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Well, Halloween at the Barge was a great success with many people getting into the spirit of the occasion by dressing up in ghoulish costumes. Live music by Robert 'The Reaper' Brown was excellent.
The prize for best fancy dress went jointly to Ray the 'hellish hillbilly' and Chris the 'creepy clown'... congratulations!
All in all an excellent night was had by all - many thanks to the staff for making it all happen, and to everyone for getting into the spirit.
Photos of the evening can be seen here.
Finally, a poem by Simone:
Halloween at the Barge
It was the night of Halloween
The pub was quite a scene
They dressed for the night
Giving everyone a fright
Black witches with pointed hats
And from the ceiling a bat
Long noses and brooms
Part of their costumes
A man wore long black hair
He sat in the back on a chair
Dressed up and drinking his beer
In the corner in .. fear
Many were there to have fun
The night had just begun
A prize for the bestdressed
I think very much impressed
The spider hung from the beam
Dave didn't even scream
Because it was Halloween
Robert Brown played the guitar
Ray and I sat at the bar
Mark the barman was white as a sheet
With Ellie beside him looking neat
They looked a scary sight
Both in white
It was quite a night
The pub filled with candle light
The atmosphere was good
Everyone did what they could
People chatting and drinking a beer
On a night with no fear
Photos taken through the night
Of all the different Halloween sights
A great night at the Barge
Tim the landlord was in charge
You missed a very good night
On Halloween night
It will be on again next year
We hope you will be there.
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SINGING LOINS Rescheduled !!!
[posted on 18/10/2007]
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Aaaargh!! Singing Loins gig previously slated for Saturday 20th October 2007 has now been rescheduled for Saturday 3rd November 2007!!!!!
Please accept our apologies for the short notice of this change. |
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OXJAM 5-a-side tournament
[posted on 08/10/2007]
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On Sunday 7th of October 2007 a team cobbled together from the Barge's bar staff, pool team and regular drinkers went to The Oxjam All-Star 5-a-side tournament to take on the might of Medway's music industry in this annual event. We are pleased to report that our team were very successful, winning the tournament overall, scoring 31 goals and conceding just 4 along the way. Each member of the team contributed to the goals, though special mention must go to Luke Dickinson who finished the teams top scorer with 10 goals on the day. Also to Christian who looked after the team on the day, but also played a vital role in the final coming on to replace players when their legs and injuries finally caught up with them. The boys are very tired and a bit battered and bruised, so if you see any of them hobbling around the pub in the next few days please feel free to by them a drink - it would be most appreciated.
The conquering Barge 5-a-side team consisted of (in alphabetical order); Luke Coker, Luke Dickinson, Darren Johnson (Digit), Mikey Lewis, Steve Lewis and Shaun Wraight. Manager and superstar sub Christian.
The webmaster would like to extend his webbiest congratulations to all concerned, and suggest that maybe Christian could teach Paul Scally a thing or two ;-)
Photos of our glorious champions can be found here:
www.thebargepub.co.uk/gallery.php?s=oxjam+5-a-side
Many thanks to Moira Mehaffey of OXJAM Medway for permission to use the photos, more of which can be found here:
www.flickr.com/photos/missmehaffey/sets/72157600962439399 |
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'Bards' and 'Jazz' - Reshuffle
[posted on 07/09/2007]
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As of September 2007 the 'Bards at the Barge' open-mic night will revert to once a month, on the first Wednesday of the month.
Also, the 'Jazz at the Barge' night will move from the second Thursday to the second Wednesday of every month. |
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Pub Review in 'Medway Beer Belly'
[posted on 01/08/2007]
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The Barge has had a very nice review published in the Medway Beer Belly magazine. You can read it here: www.thebargepub.co.uk/about.php#mbb50. |
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Pete and J at The Barge
[posted on 26/07/2007]
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New York based duo Pete and J will be appearing live at The Barge next Thursday 2nd August as part of their UK tour to promote their new album 'Dressed For Conversation'. We've been playing this at the bar for the last few weeks and it seems to have gone down well with many of our customers. This is the only Medway gig Pete and J are doing so don't miss your chance to catch them live. If you haven't heard the album yet you can hear Pete and J at www.myspace.com/peteandj.
Hope to see you all there. |
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Printable Gig Lists
[posted on 15/07/2007]
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We've now added a feature to produce a simplified, 'printable' version of the Barge gig lists.
On the listings page above the calendar you'll find a link called [printable version] - clicking on this link will take you to the new page. |
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Barge Mailing List
[posted on 05/07/2007]
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Wow! Fab! Groovy!
Subscribe to our sparkling new mailing list and receive monthly updates listing all the gigs for the forthcoming month.
Point your world-wise-web-browser-thingy to www.thebargepub.co.uk/update.php and fill in the form... do it, tell your friends to do it, you know it makes sense ;-) |
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The Barge on MySpace
[posted on 23/06/2007]
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The Barge's MySpace page is currently undergoing re-development.
We hope to bring you audio recordings of gigs at the barge, more photos, and other wonderful things!
If you are already a member of the MySpace community but do not have the Barge as your 'friend', please add us now. If you're not on MySpace, why not join now and add us as your friend? |
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No smoking from 1st July 2007
[posted on 01/06/2007]
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From the 1st July 2007 it becomes illegal to smoke in any 'enclosed' public space. This means that the Barge, along with every other pub in the UK, will have to become a non-smoking environment by law.
A decision has been made to bring in the ban a month early at the Barge in order to iron out any teething troubles.
Tim has put a lot of time and effort into turning the patio area in the back garden into a smoker-friendly environment - it is covered, and sheltered from the elements. There is also heating.
The patio is accessed directly from the back door of the bar area, so there is no need to get your fags wet when going for a puff. |
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