About me: Welcome to The Oval Tavern
An increasing rarity in Croydon, we are an independently managed pub just 5 minutes walk from East Croydon Station.
Not only that, but it's a pub in Croydon with History! it's over 150 years old and still going strong in an world where sterile chain pubs dominate.
As well as the Lunchtime menu, we also serve home cooked Sunday Roasts (mmmmm), Barbecues throughout the summer (weather permitting) and we are happy to arrange buffets most nights of the week.
With a minimum of two guest ales every month, we have been included in the 2007 Good Beer Guide.
PLUS just for good measure, we throw in live music at least twice a week, look out for the flyers at the bar or the events on this page.
Many Thanks
Graeme and Fiona
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THE BACK TO WAX REVUE Tom Rodwell, Madame Pamita, the Borough Cat VS the Vulcan Cylinder Record Co.
*** Wed May 20 - The George Tavern, 373 Commercial Road, Stepney, London E1 0LA - 8pm £6 / £4 concessions *** Sun May 24 - The Luminaire, 311 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR 7.30pm £10 door / £8 adv from www.wegottickets.co.uk
Weep not for the CD! Presenting the Back to Wax Revue, live onstage primitivist soundclash featuring genuine wax cylinder recording sessions. Witness performers battle with the original medium of recorded sound, Edison's wax cylinder, state of the art circa 1877. Ponder how recording mediums affect music; what changes in in the midst of form and content?
FEAT: Tom Rodwell (NZ) - gospel-blues primitivist Madame Pamita (LA) w/ K. Boogie - the world's foremost euphonious prognosticatrix Borough Cat (London) - London's doe-eyed dude of dolorum VS The Vulcan Cylinder Record Co. of Sheffield, UK - one of only two studios in the world with the capacity to acoustically record cylinders in the Edison fashion, Vulcan is also the world's only cylinder pressing plant and label.
Hi Graeme & Fiona, hope you are OK, I've had so many things going on of one sort after another on Thursdays/Sundays these last two months until today, but it now turns out I'm getting over the bloody flu! Will get back to see you asap. The Rhythm Riot weekender was great last weekend, lotsa good acts on. Hope everyone's fine & well, best regards, Brian.
SPILT MILK debut single "FRANK" out on limited edition 7" and download on 21st January:
"The kind of thing that the late Mr. Peel would have hit the repeat button for." - www.myspace.com/thesundayexperience
"When people start printing their 'Bands for 2008' lists, as they will, you can seriously ignore pretty much all of them. Spilt Milk are the band to watch. Buy this record, it honestly would be rude and downright stupid not to. " - www.bloodshedinthewoodshed.blogspot.com
Gary Crowley's "featured artist of the week" on BBC London Radio. - www.bbc.co.uk/london/radio
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