Newcastle was probably the busiest its been this year last night, considering its the middle of the month and the weather didnt help matters either since it was raining most of the day and in drabs on the night.

The bars had queues! Even bars which dont normally have queues, such as Destination, were packed. The standard queues for the diamond strip bars especially early on, Perdu, Floritas and Revolution all had pretty big queues outside so i thought better of going to them at that point of the night.

I did go into Revolution, where some fucking muppet spilled more or less a whole pint down the back of my jeans, what a dickhead. He actually said “i’m sorry there’s not much else i can say”. What a cock. I used my I Heart Vodka card and got 12 shots and a jug of Absolut Chambles which only came to £22. Not bad for 6 glasses of drink and 12 shots

Baby Lynch was pretty quiet early on, and the latest entry to the diamond strip, Madame Koo was open for a pre-opening kind of thing. Unfortunatly the place looked like a building site outside, why have a pre-opening like that? They should of kept the place closed till it was ready, but maybe they are just testing the water or something.

Blue down the quayside is now closed. This might just be for refurbishments, but it was not open and looked like it was getting a makeover or the place may be gone for good.

There was also police everwhere. There was apparently some trouble after the Newcastle game. Police were dotted all over the town outside bars, subway etc.

Its bad times for the bars in Newcastle’s NE1, with hardly anyone going out anymore. Bars are definatly much quieter than ever before, its just a matter of time before we must see some closures.

The Sports Bar has already gone, currently nothing has opened there yet. We have seen the opening of Linekers Bar aka the old box aka 55 Degrees North.

On Friday night i was in the bars The Lodge, The Vault, Baby Lynch, Clear Bar and all were quieter than ever. Clear Bar was empty. We were the only people in the bar at 20:30 on a Friday night…People just dont seem to be going out. The Lodge and The Vault are 2 bars which used to see a fair few people, but both were pretty empty in comparison to only a year ago, The Lodge entire upstairs was closed and the ground floor was not packed by any strech of the imagination.

Which bar will be the next to go?