The place name should have been spelt "Bzigeuleuschmeuldeu" but
no one quite ever got the right spelling for it :)
I have the flyer for the first gig there somewehere and will post that soon.
The door price was £1, all money going to a fund to post bail for people nicked on the demonstration against the Poll Tax on 20-10-1990 which ended in a rally in Brockwell Park and was followed by a march to the Brixton Prison in support of prisonners being held there.
Despite the pretty cheap door price there was always a lot of brew drinking crusties from the wood green crew trying to argue about the price "cause I'm broke" when I could plainly see several cans of spesh popping out of their pockets, talk about cheapskates. Not sure if this is the night where they tried to attack the bar at one point or whether that was at another gig.
Vast mounts of HSL was drunk there, and all gigs started early with a veggie/vegan cafe before the actual gig/party got underway.
The crew there had a pretty good relation with the man in charge of the building for the company who owned it and upon the eviction got given the keys to another pub in shoreditch the Georges And Dragon on Hackney road (that's when the area still looked like a bomb site and no one would have willingly moved to hoxton, how times change hey?) and then onto the black bull squatted pub in Homerton.
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