I lived right next door to Girafe and it was the sort of perfect, barmy place you need as your…read morelocal. Favourite memory: "Do you like mixed sex?" asked the barman. There was a pause while we worked out if he meant if I was a lesbian or a goer. We never figured out which, so drank some more gin fizz and marvelled at the fact the French roll our U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday as a stone-cold dancefloor classic. Nothing fantastically special about it, but in the manner of all places you can fall home from in three minutes, we loved it. Great fun and nice enough inside that you could chill out during the day or party away at night.

I was there in Oktober 2006 for a gig of The Divine Comedy - it was a great venue for a concertread more