Clapton Biddles Bros Builders Bar

 DJ Zach

JOCKEY SET April 2012

Anita O' Day - You're the top
The Shadows - F.B.I.
The Shadows - Bombay Duck
The Ventures - Lullaby of the leaves
Bryan Ferry - Love is a four letter word
Dot Allison - Strung out
Lord Jones - I'm going home
Neil Young - Farmer John
Sil Bell - Tease Me
Steppenwolf - Sookie sookie
Lord Rockingham - Hoots Mon
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - Did you ever?
Teardrop Explodes - Reward

Albert Collins - Give Me My Blues

Mcoy Tyner - Celestial Chant
The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
The Cramps - Bikini Girls with Machine Guns
Trini Lopez - Corazon De Melon
Cleaveland Eaton - The Funky Cello
Eat - Mr & Mrs Smack
Lyle Lovett -  Give back my heart, you red neck woman
George Melley -  Hong Kong blues
Chic - I got protection
Chase - Livin' in heat
Eugene Record - Magnetism
Germana Caroli - Quando vien la sera
Bomb the bass - Megablast
Nilsson - Jump in the fire
The Soul Searchers - Ashely's Roach Clip


JOCKEY SET 24-December-2011

Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel

EMA - Grey Ship

Beck - Little drum machine boy

Silver Jews - Federal Dust

Prince - Controversy,

Mary Clayton - Poor White Hound Dog

Nirvana - I hate myself and I want to die  

Priamis -Monj egy meset

Lonnie Mack - Wham

Peaches - Shake your dix

The Cure - short term effect

Foo Fighters - Baker St./Wind up

Arcwelder - Plastic

Friday Robinson - Zoo

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Love Rollercoaster

Dead disco - Treatment

The Passions - German film star

Small Faces - Ogdens nut gone flake (instrumental)

Charlie Christian - Seven come eleven

Art Pepper - Suzy the poodle / Dynaflow

Tracy Bird - La Grange

Sophie B Hawkins - Damn, I wish I was your lover

Dollar - shooting star

The Ventures - Fever / Stop action

Johnny Guitar Watson - Going up in smoke

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Chicken Dog

Kiss - Deuce

Rilke's

Bar Menu

Cocktails       {£4}

Snowball        
(Vanmeer's Advocaat, lemonade, lime)     

Rumball     

Gin & Orange
(Greenalls, Fresh orange juice)  

Pink Gin   
(Greenall's, bitters, crushed ice)     

Ginny Mule     
(Greenall's, Ginger Beer, Lime)           

Bloody Elizabeth  
(Stolichnaya, worcester sauce, lime juice, celery stick)

Negroni                 

Vodka Mule      
(Hackney Russian Sage Vodka, Ginger Beer)      

Mint Julep             

Clapton Martini        
(Greenall's, Noilly Pratt, cherry)            

Durkin         
(Pure English apple juice, Cheap Vodka, squeeze of Lemon, Crushed ice)        

Cajun friend         
(Double Canadian Club, Canada dry ginger ale)

If you want your cocktails Rimmed, Dusted or Thrown,  you'll be fined an extra £4.


Beer (bottles)

Becks                  £2.50
Grolsch                £2.50
St. Peter's            £2.50

 
Shots

Chartreuse             £3
Fireball               £2.50
Listerine              £2


Scotch

Haig                   £3
Vat 69                 £3
Canadian Club          £3


Whiskey

Tullamore Dew          £3

Kentucky Bourbon 

Wild Turkey            £3
Bulleit                £3


Bar Snacks

Smith's Chipsticks     50p
Golden Wonder        50p


HOUSE DRINKS are:
GIN : GREENALLS
VODKA: STOLICHNAYA
CHEAP VODKA: ЯЦSSIД


© Rilke's

Wine Gums

Marks and Spencer

Tesco

Maynards, south african edition - THE KING:

Lion at Suck and Chew

I never bought these in a commercial Lion box (label pictured), but found them jarred on a shelf in a trendy but charming retro sweet shop, overpriced as hell, on the Columbia road.  The wine gums cost about four times as much as other wine gums: £2.50 for 200 grams and where presented to me in a cute barberpole striped paper bag. The absence of plastic was a boon,  that excrement of oil.  Now, to the sampling of the gelatin in question. I found these preposterously good compared to other varieties I've so far tested. The gum is satisfyingly hard, giving the jaw a good work out, the flavours more subtle reminding me only of South African Maynards, which is different presumeably because of the preponderance of sugar cane in that country in comparison to the beet sugar used in sweets here in the United Kingdom, (it being cheaper than using imported real cane sugar).  By the way,  American sweets are all made with corn syrup for the same cost-saving reasons and this also includes coca cola.   

The lack of corn or beet - whether this is the reason these wine gums are so satisfyingly different is something that I cannot ascertain until I see the ingredients on a  box of them, as soon as I can find where they are retailed (hopefully at a less exorbitant price).  Meanwhile I still recommend any locals to visit the shop I acquired these from;  Suck & Chew, which I discovered by serendipity as its not far from my workplace, in the east end, between Bethnal Green and Hoxton.  It also appears to be rated as the best sweet shop in All of London.