Owners of many of the bars in Newcastle, PBR (Premium Bars and Restaurants) formally known as Ultimate Leisure have gone into administration. This is after a £48Million deal to buy the company fell apart.

3 establishments have been closed with immediate effect, which are Rewind in Newcastle, Advocate in Belfast and Sea nightclub in Glasgow.

They have debts of over £40Million, purchasing “The Living Room” chain in 2007 for £32Million with bank lending.

This means that many of Newcastle bars and clubs could be facing last orders, including Chase, Blu Bambu, Jimmyz, Sea Nightclub and The Living Room.

Personally i hope that The Living Room and Chase get bought out, and maybe Sea. The others can remain closed until someone rents the buildings and changes them into a better, profit making places. I have been saying for a long time here, here, and  here, that Blu Bambu needs a change, maybe this is a good thing to happen for the drinkers in the town. Give us a great nightclub again!!!

Chase Bar is located down the quayside. It is quite a nice space, had a refurbishment not so long ago and has a nice outside area aswell as three bars (sometimes only the main bar is open) inside. It is split level, and also had a downstairs area to chill in.

They sell a range of beer and bottles, and is pretty friendly for letting in hen and stag parties, in fact if you go on a Saturday night and dont see at least one there must be something wrong.

The music on offer is pretty much the standard thing, chart, pop, rnb dance kind of stuff; It can get pretty full in this place and sometimes it can take a while to get served, although i have to say the staff are better than they used to be.

There are 2 things which i hate about this place. One is the person in charge of pricing the drinks. I went in and got a double vodka and energy drink (they’re cheap, no redbull here) and they will sell you one for £2.50 but you do not get the can. They will give you half the can, if you ask for the can, the bar person will tell you “oh its over £6 if you want the can aswell…” OK, its fair enough if you dont get the can, you cant complain here as its only £2.50, if it were £5> than you could complain……However, i could buy 2x of the drinks for £5.00, and they’d have to use 1 can for 2 drinks. So i can get 2 double vodkas and a can of redbull for £5, but if i want one double vodka with a full can of Redbull its over £6?!?! The Management at Chase need to get back to school i think!

Now i dont bother getting that drink here. They use the cheapest vodka on the planet along with whatever energy drink happens to be the cheapest.

The thing which is the worst of all is the shot girls. If you dont know what they are, some bars have girls which go round everyone in the bar asking if you wanna buy a shot. This is the most annoying thing in the world!!! You are out to have a good time, and someone is coming up to you trying to sell you something….Havent i already bought something from the bar? I cant tell you how much i HATE this on so many levels. I have chosen to come to your bar and you have someone bothering me to buy shots?

Not only that but the girls try their BEST to get you to buy them. That means there is not much they wouldnt do to sell you a shot. They will give you some free if you buy enough, and they will bug you and put pressure on you to buy one from them.

And if one girl isnt bugging you enough, her mate will come along and ask you the same thing! Bars listen up, ITS FUCKING ANNOYING! STOP IT!!!! I love shots, but if i want one, i will go to the bar and buy one.

The worst part about the whole ‘new look’ chase is the signage outside. What a joke! What were they thinking?! It looks so cheap its unreal. They must of done the inside of the bar and ran out of cash, basically black and yellow boards above the door, it looks terrible!

To get to Chase set your GPS to:

Chase Bar Newcastle
10/15 Sandhill
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3AF