Row erupts over naming of new nightclub (From Swindon Advertiser)
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Row erupts over naming of new nightclub
11:30am Wednesday 22nd February 2012 in News
Tiger Bills is taking over the old Studio nightclub
A NIGHTCLUB set to offer drinking until 6am in Old Town has run into trouble before even opening – after it emerged another company is already using the same name.
Tiger Bills has been contacted by a chain that owns two restaurants offering American and Thai cuisine under the slogan, ‘bar, wok, grill’.
The nightspot is set to open in the former Studio club, in Hoopers Place, this spring.
The 8,000 sq ft venue, which has already coined the slogan ‘what Bill says, goes’, will offer a number of bars, a VIP mezzanine and a garden area.
But the owners of the Tiger Bills restaurants in Exeter and Torquay are understood to have approached the nightclub’s management to tell them to stop using the name.
A spokeswoman for the Lifestyle Hospitality Group Ltd, which runs venues across the south west, confirmed that it was aware of the situation.
“This nightclub is nothing to do with us and we have been in correspondence with them over the use of the Tiger Bills name,” she said.
“We are a completely separate entity. Other than that all I can say is watch this space.”
No one at the proposed nightclub – which is currently running a weekly competition at nearby Baker Street bar to find a resident DJ – was available for comment.
The letting and managing agent for the building’s landlord, Stephen Brickell, of Kilpatrick and Co Property Consultants, welcomed news of the opening earlier this month.
He said: “I am delighted to have secured such an established and forward thinking operator for this landmark building.
“The landlords and I are delighted with the plans for the venue and are sure that it will set new standards for the leisure industry and will be bringing to Old Town an unrivalled night time experience and rejuvenate the regional leisure circuit.”
The building has been largely empty since Studio – which had replaced Mission nightclub – closed in 2005.
Concerns have been raised about safety surrounding the club after The Spot bar, which is directly opposite Tiger Bills, had its licence reviewed over incidents of assaults on police, brawls and drunkenness.
But the 6am licence still stands from the Studio days and cannot be reviewed unless it is proven that Tiger Bills is breaching its obligations – which can only happen once the club is up and running.
A blurb on the new nightclub’s Facebook page says Tiger Bills will be known as ‘Bills’ to clubbers and ‘will have nothing less but sharp service and only a premium range of drinks surpassed by a music experience not seen or heard for at least a decade’.
The description also promises: “Beneath the shell of the building will be a fury of exotic and intimate décor with a sound and light experience which will self entangle and grasp the very organ which draws every breath.”
In a comment on the page, the venue has said it will be ‘independently owned and managed’ and will reveal all its plans online ‘once we’re ready’.
Comments(18)
PaulD
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1:29pm Wed 22 Feb 12
Hmmmf wrote:Translation: "I have read some literature on interior design and marketing and have spent far too much of my recent life with my head up my own bottom"
Beneath the shell of the building will be a fury of exotic and intimate décor with a sound and light experience which will self entangle and grasp the very organ which draws every breath.
Could someone please explain the meaning of this 'description' so that those of us with English as a first language can understand it?
It probably just means red, black and swirly
house on the hill
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1:43pm Wed 22 Feb 12
Hmmmf
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1:49pm Wed 22 Feb 12
PJC
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2:06pm Wed 22 Feb 12
Hmmmf wrote:Oh, Haaahahaha! You're right. I almost choked when I read that! ;o)
Beneath the shell of the building will be a fury of exotic and intimate décor with a sound and light experience which will self entangle and grasp the very organ which draws every breath.
Could someone please explain the meaning of this 'description' so that those of us with English as a first language can understand it?
Hmmmf
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2:21pm Wed 22 Feb 12
Something red, black and swirly wrote
...drinks surpassed by a music experience not seen or heard for at least a decade’
Ah, so Madonna, Michael Bolton, Sinéad O'Connor, New Kids On The Block, Bon Jovi, Elton John, Britney Spears, The Spice Girls!
montgomery burns
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6:06pm Wed 22 Feb 12
The Patrician
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7:40pm Wed 22 Feb 12
westswin
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7:52pm Wed 22 Feb 12
The Patrician wrote:Because the **** heads have trashed all of the other places in Swindon or they have been shut down for serving under age people.
And we need yet another nightclub because...........?
greenpacer
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11:57pm Wed 22 Feb 12
BERT BLOGGS
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6:41am Thu 23 Feb 12
What, brawls and drunkenness in SWINDON? Who would have thought it! The brain-dead youth of this town do NOT need yet another place designed to take as much cash as possible in return for getting them drunk and aggressive.
BERT BLOGGS
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6:41am Thu 23 Feb 12
What, brawls and drunkenness in SWINDON? Who would have thought it! The brain-dead youth of this town do NOT need yet another place designed to take as much cash as possible in return for getting them drunk and aggressive.
oldbutawake
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9:41am Thu 23 Feb 12
The Licencing Authority should then be able to award it on the basis of today's values not those that applied in the past. I for one cannot imagine why a licence till 6am should be needed at all.
Disco20
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10:17am Thu 23 Feb 12
Looking at the kind of drivel posted, about 85 me thinks.
Go back to yer local and have yourself a pint of 6X whilst playing dominoes.
Serious you people, stop being ignorant. This society like a drink or two and yes, you get a few morons in the mix who like to rough it up a little. This doesn’t mean everyone fights and everyone drinks too much.
Perhaps if the previous generation had educated the youth on the consequences of drink........
I would prefer 3 or 4 decent night clubs surrounded by a couple of pubs than see all the rubbish themed bars in the town.. but that is just MY preference.
Hmmmf
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11:04am Thu 23 Feb 12
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It did. But then at around age 15, *that* generation had kids of their own and didn't educate them on the consequences of anything. :-)
bexxx_87
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1:58pm Thu 23 Feb 12
CCJ2012
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3:08pm Thu 23 Feb 12
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It did. But then at around age 15, *that* generation had kids of their own and didn't educate them on the consequences of anything. :-)
hmmmmf - that's brilliant..What we should do is - Let the clubs open and flood with pregnant chavs, then when the clubs close, park a big van out the front, and load them all up like cattle and send them off to an island where they breed, and generally annoy someone else and we can get back to sorting this place out :)
jmostfc
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3:58pm Thu 23 Feb 12
bexxx_87 wrote:Other search engines are available.
if you google 'tiger bills' these restaurant/bars mentioned come up, I had assumed that this was part of the same chain. This is bound to be be a failure if their managements research over a name fails this easily?!
Hmmmf says...
1:08pm Wed 22 Feb 12
Could someone please explain the meaning of this 'description' so that those of us with English as a first language can understand it?