New
Years Eve
Wednesday 31st December
The answer is YES we shall be open and
running a VERY special night to speed us all into 2009 !!!!
come back here soon to find out much more about this
themed night !!!
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Fraggle Rocks
Saturday 22nd November
Having bumped his head on the ceiling
for so long, Fraggle will be venturing onto to the
stage to play a short set along side Nick
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M
is Coming
Saturday 15th November
The Matrix loving DJ returns to the
stage to work along side Nick for the night
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Entry
Price Alteration
Saturday 8th November – onwards
Ever since our days at
the Black Horse we have managed to keep the entry price the same, and keep
delivering what we hope is good value for your pennies. Not just the great rock
music, but a safe place to be in, little gifts on your arrival, pleasant
surprises for birthday folks (well no one has complained yet) and the ever
developing lighting and effects show. However in these days of merry cost
increases and jolly government controls, we have now found we need to slightly
adjust the entry prices to make everything balance and put us in positive
position for future fun.
So from the 8th
November 2008 the standard entry prices are –
Non Members
9pm to 11pm - £4 each
11pm to close - £5 each
Members & students
(with ID)
9pm to close - £3 each
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All
Hallows Eve Event 2008
Saturday 1st November 2008
Oh grief…. Do I ache… yes we were
certainly all there !!
Some were there more than others….
There were devils and angels (I think
some crossed over during the night)
Apes, warriors and some things we
really couldn’t work out what they were… but they scared the jelly out of me !!!
If you missed the night (or cant remember it very well) well you can re-live the night
by looking at the gallery here
and find out what was played here
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Driven
by your requests
Did you know that you can now get
your requests to us –
A) Via email – via the
MySpace pit site
B) By filling in a request
form at the door on the night
C) Text it to us on the
day (details on the door) {standard rates apply}
D) Bluetooth message us
(just switch on your Bluetooth and search for the Pit Requests)
E) You can pop up and tell
the DJs (they don’t bite)
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1st July 2007 onwards
Inside The Pit goes smoke free
The law is being introduced to protect employees
and the public from the harmful effects of second hand smoke. This means it
will be against the law to smoke in virtually all enclosed public places,
workplaces as well as public and work vehicles. This law applies to anything
that can be smoked, which includes cigarettes, pipes of all types, cigars and
herbal cigarettes.
Local councils are responsible for enforcing the
law, and their staff will be visiting sites to ensure that the law is being
enforced.
Failure to comply with the law is a criminal
offence, penalties and fines for smoking offences are as follows.
Individuals found smoking by local authority staff
in smoke free areas – a fixed penalty notice of £50 (or a maximum fine of £200
if prosecuted and convicted by a court) {there are discounts with these
charges, please visit www.smokefreeengland.co.uk for more information}
Since The Pit is held in a public venue, the owners
of the site and Redline as promoters of The Pit are legally responsible to
prevent people from smoking within The Duke of Cambridge. This therefore means
that smoking is not permitted within the
enclosed rooms of The Pit. However, we are fortunate enough to have a beer
garden, accessible via the door by the pool table area and smoking is permitted
in the beer garden during the evening. We request that you ensure that the door
to the garden is closed after you and that you do not re-enter the venue rooms
before extinguishing anything you are smoking.
The staff at The Pit / Duke of
Cambridge are required to prevent smoking in smoke free places, fines
can be imposed on us if we fail to do this.
Persons found smoking within the enclosed rooms of
The Pit (not the beer garden)
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will be advised that they are smoking in a non smoking area
and asked to stop or move immediately to the garden area if they wish to
continue.
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If someone ignores the
advice given, it will be pointed out to them that they are committing a
criminal offence by smoking in a smoke free area.
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Smokers will be reminded
that under the law, Pit / DoC staff have a
responsibility to prevent smoking and that both the smoker and the staff could
both receive a fine.
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Smokers,
that fail to follow the advice given will
be informed that they will no longer be served and shall be requested to leave
the premesis.
The management of the Duke of Cambridge and Redline
Productions Ltd as promoters are required to comply with the laws of the UK and
trust that all visitors to The Pit will assist us in meeting these
requirements.
For further information on the law and regulations
we recommend you visit www.smokefreeengland.co.uk
Other sites of interest associated to this are –
Assistance in stopping smoking www.gosmokefree.co.uk (NHS Smoking Helpline 0800 169 0 169)
Hounslow Council reference site about the smoking
control in the borough www.smokefreehounslow.co.uk
News and Events for Smoke free
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As Played @
Each Saturday at The Pit
Requests that make prizes
Every last Pit of the
month brings a prize draw from one of our sponsors
So how do you get in
the draw ? It’s so simple …
Provide us with your
requests, with your contact details to get in contact with you when you win!!
Complete a form at the gig, pop it in the request box at the door…
… or
text it to us (details to follow)
… email
it to the pit request address (details to follow)
Then we shall play your
tunes in The Pit
You can see what we
play each week on this site.
You can see what new tunes
have been added to this site, with one line reviews from you.
Yes… As Played @
Just… for… and from
you…
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The
Pit is essentially west
What
continues to pleas us is that we have secured a regular venue base, which
itself is steeped in rock history, in that that this was the very first venue
in the UK that a newly arrived and fresh faced Jimi Hendrix played, having just
stepped off a plane in Heathrow. So the brand new venue for the Pit is The Duke of Cambridge in
Hounslow.
The
full address is
The
venue is at the back of the huge Hounslow bus garage / station, a centre for
almost all the day and night buses for the greater area and just a few minutes
saunter up the road from Hounslow East Underground station on the Piccadilly
line to Heathrow, which makes it probably the best ever public transport
connected venue we have ever been in.
For
those coming to by car, there are two public car parks across the road, both
monitored with CCTV, also straight across the road are a licensed cab company
and a late night takeaway food shop and there is secure bike parking at the
back of the venue, as well as limited parking at the front. We think we have
catered for a lot of everyone’s needs.... did I mention the beer garden, video
screens, pool table and “Pit Art”© ?
Redline
Productions Ltd, teamed up with the present venue
owners during the purchase and worked with them in completing a number of
changes to the layout of the venue which all took place “just” before opening
night of the 8th April 2006.
Building
on the Pit's extraordinary legacy of delivering a safe, fun, rock show
reflecting all manner of rock styles in the Red Lion in Brentford, John Bull in
Chiswick and The Black Horse in Richmond, the Redline team continue to join
together with the wistful ghost of James Marshall Hendrix and yourself in
creating a blinding regular Saturday night suburban rock club.
The Redline Management Team
Promoters of the Pit Rock Club