Is it financially viable to start a metal bar in Limerick?

Lateralus1082

Aside from the odd gig in Dolans there doesn't seem to be anything there since The High Stool, which is ridiculous.

PTH2009

In Waterford we used to have a few metal pubs such as Murphys on the Quay, Electric Avenue (now Shortts) and The Fourm (used to have a few metal events now and again) but there not so metal anymore and the Fourm is now a full time bingo hall, Murphys is closed now. We have a lot of music pubs/niteclubs but they have a sort of Hipster vibe from them.

I imagine Limerick and Waterford would have similar mixed musical nightlife venues

Fleawuss

Niche markets only viable with large population. That game is over for most provincial towns/cities.

Blackie Grey

fred zeppelins in cork is flying

Jofspring

I'd love a metal bar in Limerick but I don't think the demand is there sadly. I have a good few friends that listen to metal or just rock in general but I couldn't see them regularly drinking in a metal bar.

When the Blind Pig opened in the basement on foxes bow it had a metal vibe, playing all that kind of music. Although the surroundings weren't great, I enjoyed it in there. It quickly changed though from what I heard and is now closed down.

Rainman16

I'd go to it. Because I like my metal music, but limerick is probably too small of a town for a specialised metal theme bar.
Is it financially viable? Probably not

scudzilla

That's my dream, to win the lotto, move to Greece and open up a rock/metal bar in a resort, wouldn't be arsed if it didnt make money as would have lotto money behind me, would spend all night playing great music

seachto7

Best thing about the High Stool was you could walk in and hear Slayer or Sonic Youth.
Why not think of an alternative bar, and not like Costelloes, who have the same playlist for the last 15 years.
I have thought about it! Maybe the population isn't there to sustain it in Limerick, but you could look at putting on alternative gigs. Not indie alternative, but post rock, stoner rock, metal, stuff like that.

Wasn't the Blind Pig originally a metal bar? Then turned into a socialite joint? Needs must....

Lateralus1082

The sticky lists 2 pubs in Galway city but Limerick has a higher population and its metro area has more than double the population (according to a 2011 census, so it's probably even more now).

If I won the lotto I'd also set up a metal bar but in Limerick just to bring joy to all the disillusioned metalheads in this part of the country.

seachto7

Unless there were pubs who would put on metal nights, so you walk in, and instead of hearing the usual stuff piped out of the jukebox, you could hear Meshuggah, or Slayer, or the Deftones etc.

happyoutscan

In the current climate unless you knew what you were doing I wouldn't open a bar of any kind. Drinking habits have changed and unfortunately the pub isn't seen as the social messiah anymore.

Which sucks, who the f*ck wants to drink at home?

Lateralus1082

seachto7 wrote: »

Unless there were pubs who would put on metal nights, so you walk in, and instead of hearing the usual stuff piped out of the jukebox, you could hear Meshuggah, or Slayer, or the Deftones etc.

That would be a start. Something other than AC/DC for a change.