¶ The d.Construct conference in Brighton is approaching rapidly (don’t I just know it; so much to do, so little time) and many attendees are coming down on the Thursday so they can be fresh for the Friday morning start. As such, attendees are looking for places and people to meet on Thursday evening. The d.Construct backnetwork is a great place to look for who’s coming and where they are meeting (check the blog posts).
In terms of venue suggestions, the d.Construct location page lists some recommendations of places to eat: Wagamama, GBK, Strada and the Ha Ha Bar will all be able to accommodate reasonably large groups.
As for drinking establishments, all the wi-fi enabled pubs are coincidentally decent places and should be able to fit in quite a few people. Particular favourites, from west (Hove) to east (Kemp Town) are: Duke of Norfolk, Fortune of War, Earth and Stars, Black Lion, Sidewinder and St George’s. I recommend you avoid anywhere on West Street; that’s the street from the clock tower (on the way down from the station) to the beach.
If you’ve got any particular favourites, or any other venues to suggest, please drop a comment here.
Update. Over on Ian Lloyd’s blog there appears to be a concensus that the Earth and Stars is indeed the place to meet. As Jeremy suggests there is a cosy upstairs room that I recommend someone books as the pub itself it not huge. Incidentally, like Jeremy, I’ll be entertaining the speakers on Thursday evening but may be along later.
Update update. We’ve booked the downstairs room in Heist for Thursday night. Heist is actually on the afore-mentioned West Street, but fear not it’s actually a pretty decent bar.
Comments
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I don’t really know the Brighton late night scene that well, but since I’m down on the Thursday evening it would be nice to meet up with some people. The Pub Standards (.co.uk) lot were discussing sorting something out for Thursday night.
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I’m down on Thursday evening, not sure what time I’m getting there, though. Also, I’ve gotta find somewhere to stay, too!
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Thanks Rich – I’d posted about it on my blog so that it would appear on the backnetwork aggregator and it was turning into an unofficial social events co-ordination point. And by that what I mean is lots of people saying “I’m coming down, not sure when, but beer sounds good” (me included!). Both you and Jeremy have suggested Earth and Stars so that sounds like a good place to me. Question: is it within walking distance of Seaspray Hotel, do you know?
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Ian: The Seaspray hotel is definitely within walking distance of the Earth and Stars. About 10–15 minutes I would say. Here’s a map (I won’t be making maps for everyone).
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I’ll be just one more of many coming down on thursday evening, but Brighton’s changed a lot since I was at uni there (and I’m not so sure that my old student haunts will be quite so popular – Smugglers’ for a game of pool anyone?).
Come on Richard, pick one and we shall congregate (and grumble about the crap choice later)!
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Heist has been chosen. Heist has been hired. I’ve added an event to Upcoming:
http://upcoming.org/event/103713/
Head along and add your name there if you can make it for Thursday night drinks.
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