The Dev?

[flaviomatani]

I'm busy at this moment so cannot check any of this, but just had a phone call from someone telling me that the Dev had had the management changed and they had changed the pub drastically. Does anybody know anything more about this?

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[tempaccount99]

Well someone else posted the same an hour or so ago, but has since deleted the post...

[reddragdiva]

Hrmmm. www.devcamden.co.uk seems to have gone walkies.

[andyravensable.livejournal.com]

I heard the same, I suspect from the same person. Apparently, it's been made into a generic "alternative" place. If it's true, it's a bloody travesty. Suggest we go march upon Camden with pitchforks and blazing torches?

[vexen.livejournal.com]

There is nothing on Robin's Facebook (and he updated something a few days ago), so that's some evidence against, but then again he doesn't use it very verbosely.

Yup.

[cyberglamour.livejournal.com]

...Just checked with one of the dj's and apparently Janine and Robin no longer manage/work there.The djs are still the same but dunno about the crowd..

awww...well,I stopped drinking there few weeks ago anyway;)

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

Was all the same when I went there on Saturday. Planning to go there tomorrow so will have a look see!

[aliasrob.livejournal.com]

Someone should have torched the Dev when Roy was kicked out. It's been a travesty for a long, long time now.

[arachne.livejournal.com]

I'll wait and see what the actual pub turns out like (speaking as one who now lives in the sticks and rarely goes, but always saw it as a fine place to chill at certain times of the day when I knew it wouldn't be busy and I'd have no hassle for sitting with a beer'n'book). How Janine and Robin have been treated, while it's part of the risk of living in a tenanted pub, is really fucking sucky. I hope they're ok.

Reckon the new guys'd be up to getting a (just one, I'm not greedy!) decent ale in? All those shit European lagers, and still no pump o' pride.

[jupiter909.livejournal.com]

From a business perspective it makes plain sense to have changed management. One does not need 'sell-out' to be successful but in that same breath one can't be totally nazi with pseudo rules and regulations.
I refuse to go into the dev because they had become nazi like. The rationality behind dress code for venues is to ensure that clientelle do not feel threatened and that things such as fights to not break out between different factions of subcultures. So it makes perfect sense not to let a townie/chav in etc. However when someone like myself that dresses normalish goes there with 12 other people that are all fully gothed out and they refuse me entry then they are being complete assholes. On that evening my friends and I all diverted to Quinns. They lost 13 clients that evening. How many other people has this happened to, it's death to business that. With such a myopic view they were/are clearly doomed.

My £0.02