The Venue cops some big fines

fnaah said :

I’ve been led to believe (in the last few days) that they’d be re-opening within the next few weeks under new management and with a new name. Hope this doesn’t set that back too much (the 8-ball players of canberra need this venue.)

You’re right on the money.

Skidd Marx said :

Word on the street was that they were under investigation for far less-trivial matters than the ones mentioned above.

Like being an ice den for the rebels ?

fnaah said :

the 8-ball players of canberra need this venue.

Do you play fnaah?

Sounds to me like the blue meanies were determined to shut that place down one way or another. Word on the street was that they were under investigation for far less-trivial matters than the ones mentioned above.

I’ve been led to believe (in the last few days) that they’d be re-opening within the next few weeks under new management and with a new name. Hope this doesn’t set that back too much (the 8-ball players of canberra need this venue.)

In any event Simon Corbell has announced that the company running the Erindale boozer’s sole director has copped a slew of fines.

That is a strange turn of phrase, and strange use of an apostrophe.

Does it mean “the sole director of the company running the Erindale boozer”? So that the apostrophe operates on the entire phrase [the company running the Erindale boozer]?

What a weird way to express it. Were you being deliberately obscure?

I’ve played there a couple of times – crappy venue, won’t be going back. And I remember the fire exits being locked on those occasions (we wanted to load in through the fire exits at the back and couldn’t … had to lug everything past the punters and wind up the stupid staircases).

10k isnt much