The first we heard of The Adelaide when it popped up on Adelaide Rd in 2006 was when Tom gave it the Mystery Bar treatment on WellUrban.
This week’s mystery bar used to be notorious for many reasons, and there would have been times when only the staunchest and/or dodgiest punters would have ventured inside. These days it seems a bit tamer, though it’s still not the sort of place that you’d take someone you were trying to impress. Unless they really, really liked cheap beer. Having said that, it was comfortable enough on a quiet Saturday afternoon, and there were no scary patrons in sight. Actually, there were almost no patrons at all, though the general is that it would get very busy at times, and I imagine it gets hard to move when there’s a rugby match on or a band playing.
… and he couldn’t have been more right! Many a wasted night has been spent in its confines, and the subsequent wasted day was always well worth it.
Unfortunately The Adelaide shuts it’s doors this Saturday after more than three years of gigs and good times. So you’ve got one last week to come down and enjoy a band, bingo and beer. We’ll be capping it all off with a massive day of music for Halloween
Weds – The Final Spin for the original BINGO event in town
Thurs – Bad Statistics, Detrytus & guests
Fri – Sniper Alley ACDC tribute
Sat – Matinee show; Streetlight Requiem, The Proxies
Sat Evening; Fosset & Badger, Cougar Cougar Cougar, The Cold Shivers
Apparently there is nothing planned for the site at this stage, but apparently alsa "the vultures are circling" and we’re sure it won’t take long for someone to move in.
