I'm new here so please scrub this question if it's been asked before. I couldn't find it in the arvhives.
I was reading an Ian Rankin book last night - Naming of the Dead - which has a scene in Sandy Bell's in Edinburgh. Now thats a pub I know well from when I lived in the city in the 1970's.
Are there any other well known session pubs which appear in fiction?
I'm not sure that there were any sessions in the Broken/mended Drum but there was certainly LIve music there in Soul Music. Pratchet did have dark Morris dancing which is a real treat and the Feegles jig about a bit.
Session pubs in literature
Session pubs in literature
I'm new here so please scrub this question if it's been asked before. I couldn't find it in the arvhives.
I was reading an Ian Rankin book last night - Naming of the Dead - which has a scene in Sandy Bell's in Edinburgh. Now thats a pub I know well from when I lived in the city in the 1970's.
Are there any other well known session pubs which appear in fiction?
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by Scorpion de Rooftrouser
Re: Session pubs in literature
Not a session pub, but good music and craic in John Keane's novel "The Bodhran Makers."
# Posted on February 19th 2008 by Will Harmon
Re: Session pubs in literature
"The Bodhran Makers"?
Don't you mean Van Gogh's painting "The Potato Eaters"?
That's what I always assumed bodhran makers looked like...
# Posted on February 20th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Session pubs in literature
I don't know, but I suspect they might be found in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchet. They would be thoroughly at home in that world.
# Posted on February 20th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Session pubs in literature
I'm not sure that there were any sessions in the Broken/mended Drum but there was certainly LIve music there in Soul Music. Pratchet did have dark Morris dancing which is a real treat and the Feegles jig about a bit.
J
# Posted on February 20th 2008 by jfother