8th January 2020
More posts brought to you under “contractual negotiations” as I’d never choose to tick micropubs in Thanet for a living, would I ?
Thanet though, always worth a visit.
I’d walked past Banks when I was in Cliftonville (not the Belfast one) last time out and assumed it was a trendy bar.
It’s not trendy, despite the Bass memorabilia.
Just a well-run locals pub, a micro with music and gin. And unusual dispense.
One bloke when I arrived, half a dozen when I left. They’d all come to meet the man who’d met BRAPA, I guess.
I left them to enjoy Simply Red and Terence Trent D’Arby, whose spell as a half back with Margate alongside Buster Bloodvessel in the late ’80s ensures his enduring popularity here.
Terence dropped out of the public consciousness around the same time as this classic.
Captain Bob, Private Eye’s nickname for Robert Maxwell, otherwise known as the “bouncing Czech!”
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Terence Trent D’Arby’s Wikipedia page comes as something of a surprise…
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Yes. A colourful CV.
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Do I dare check it out?
I bought the CD after hearing that one song of his on the radio whilst driving from St. Cloud to Minneapolis MN back in about 1987. Maybe 88.
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I’d only check Banks out for old brewery tat and that calm that descends when Old Boys get together on Thanet š
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