jaw drops

a goner for sure. I'm not a huge fan of the room, but that's a massive shame regardless...

fucken.

So unfair. This place was really becoming awesome. Fuck you, Justin Hemmes!

Doesn't he look like a rich posey cunt in that pic? Urrrrggghhh.

scarf + tshirt = posey cunt

he looks like someone from Brisbane. actually, the whole deal, including Hemmes' non-''spokesperson's'' calculated leak, only serves to remind me why i find Brisbane so nauseating. developers (dread term) who cater to 'wealthy people buying into apartments...' (the fact that the word apartments is even used is enough to sicken me. but hicks love that. apparently it makes them feel very urbane). i can just see it now - because i see it in Fortitude Valley each time i pass through that shithole: tee shirt'n'scarf wearing coolsies all trying to outdo one another in their identikit looks of homogenized rebellion. feeding and watering from balconies high prior to motoring down to tryhard Wynumm to convince themselves that Brisbane really is a modern city.

yawn...

Always a shame to lose a venue in this city.

Hang on, its not closing, nothing's been said about filling it with pokies, or even closing it as a music venue. If anything, it could get a face lift, and lose it's general meh-ness. Putting it up against the winery is a bit of a joke though... a pub vs a wine bar/restaurant close to oxford st and a strip of top restaurants & bars.
Devonshire is primarily a residential street... good luck trying to do much more with it!

It's time for Surry Hills to be abandoned and for the gradual process of gentrification to be triggered elsewhere.

Oops, Foveaux, not Devonshire. Still... it's a crap st :P

he's a cunt for sure

I just played there (for the first time) on Friday, good venue. Foveaux st. is not exactly activity central though.

I think what's fucked is that photography studios are just so damn chilly.

That photo does not bode well.

Who is he even? Never heard the name.

Goodbye $3 bubblies on a Friday :(

This seems a strange purchase to me. Though it only just down the road from the Beresford the the difference in the locations is vast. It's a lot more grimey down that end of Surry Hills and there's no restaurant strip or much else around there to attract people. Hopefully they'll persist with live music while they wait for the gentrification crowd to hit that part of town.

I think location wise he would have been better off buying the Hoey.

Hang on, its not closing, nothing's been said about filling it with pokies, or even closing it as a music venue. If anything, it could get a face lift, and lose it's general meh-ness.

Hope you're right, but I doubt it.

haz: yer dreamin.

Aw this makes me so sad. The Excelsior is currently my fave small Sydney band venue & this does not smell right.

Scallywag is it just me or is that a black-eyed Hemmes in that pic?

what's the bet he got that shirt painted up to make it look like he'd helped?

Scallywag is it just me or is that a black-eyed Hemmes in that pic?

no columbo. your eye's do not deceive you. that is a photo from today's daily telegraph. black eye was incurred / obtained at the opening party. something about a ceiling joist, or walking into the door...

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/justin-hemmes-comes-off-second-best-after-black-eye/story-e6frewz0-1226059196464

awesome! that sets the precendent then, my free get out of jail card. ''honestly officer - it was a falling ceiling joist!''

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/gun-held-to-justin-hemmes-head-in-pub-hold-up/story-fn3dxity-1226071576777

NIGHTCLUB baron Justin Hemmes had a gun put to his head during an armed robbery at one of his Sydney hotels last night.

Disgruntled punters?

He should have bought something in a better location then.

so this place is working out well for him so far - in just a few short weeks it's all black eyes, guns to the head..

Disgruntled punters?

Maybe, they did rob the Rose in Erko as well.

The cops should have arrested him for swearing at them.

What?

He then added: ''When he arrived he came out and I went they've gone that way ... he says get out of my way … you know what I mean … that was the beginning of the end ... oh Jesus guys.''

Disgruntled punters?

Maybe, they did rob the Rose in Erko as well

More likely disgruntled at their beer prices. $6.80 for a coopers... ROBBERY !

fark!

guess it means they have plenty of cash to steal.

look at this finger-pointing born-to-rule fucker

copper should have grabed it and given it a little twist until it went ''pop''

I hope he goes bankrupt.

I've little sympathy for the man. Can anyone confirm/deny that he's bought up the Duck & Swan as well? They're ripping the guts out of it as we speak - it was one of my favourite pubs in town

hmm, could just be a renovation, him buying something usually makes the papers.

hemmes' cbd hotel the ivy shut down for 72 hrs after bouncers brutally assault a patron.

hotel management clean up the crime scene before police arive.

charming.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/police-close-ivy-as-guards-accused-of-attacking-man-in-basement-20110829-1jhfi.html

turns out one of the bouncers involved was a cage fighter. bail set at $300K

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/ivy-basement-beating-case-bouncer-bailed-for-300000-20110830-1jjh0.html