Re: climbing-goes-mainstream weirdness

[Johnny Brown]

Not really weird, but… full carbon brush stick!!

Can’t believe I didn’t think of it, been staring me in the face etc….

 

[shurt]

https://www.selfridges.com/GB/en/features/sportopia/#climbingColumn

We can lock this thread, it can't get worse than this.

It's only £9.50 a session in Birmingham though

 

[teestub]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etvigdtJlnk coverage in the FT, thought it was going to delve more into finance etc. but a nice overview and maybe some investors will see the potential!

Not sure i misheard the Climbing Hangar chap say they wanted to have 50 sites!

 

[Teaboy]

I heard that, maybe finally get one near me.

 

[spidermonkey09]

Still waiting for a wall in Bury... :jab:

That was good. I remember being very cynical about PE's investment in the Hangar, but it looks like they're broadly kept a good balance. I think their membership offer remains the best available anywhere (from memory), which I guess makes for a strong recurring revenue element.

 

[mattsparksy]

I suppose he's going for the "Gym Group model", as many sites as possible at the cheapest cost.

 

[lagerstarfish]

In a strange twist, at Burbage North today, I found myself in the company of juvenile stonechats.
I had no choice, but to post a picture of them on this forum.
I shall be referring to UKB as Juvenile Stonechat for the foreseeable future. (In a good way)

 

[sherlock]

https://hub.outsideinc.com/e3t/Ctc/LW+113/cy08X04/MW9fHjgHHVpVPRyMY2fXtN-W5VG-2S5lWh3QN2L_pzT3qgyTW7Y8-PT6lZ3mxW1zsxXr3fRwN6W4J7g4w91cQMFW8CVZzD6mCnKRW2WDxlz8MrjzXVMp30L7ySv2DN56XQPd9srNPW1Lwbmz81Ynv9W68Sw257l4vQMW12ZgKy4bDd6rW5XdYTq3m3Q2qW2KcrPs5Lkj4wW6J3lJB88vXdWW3Sb_J-4RLMNjW3wMWWB54FMQQVjlzp416GsfcN2bZPnSXGhk7W8tq9tJ9cm-rYN2ZncchDJh19W7GbFkg5fKHHCW5_N7_88yZg8NW4qs11h8FQfJ_W28QnWs2nLxH0N3qrPb-Qzmq0VTKMwG8R_l1nW8yGWWs736nQdW3W9WQV8TXxvGf7xbl3604

Words fail me...then again they often do.

 

[SA Chris]

Bizarre. Is the toprope just draped over that beam?

 

[mark20]

Not massively weird, but my ears pricked up the other day when I heard a radio 6 presenter say "I heard this one at the climbing wall, big up Manchester Depot"

 

[Fiend]

Was that introducing a track off the new Blood Incantation album??

 

[teestub]

Was that introducing a track off the new Blood Incantation album??

If they are playing Blood Incantation at the Depot I will face the extra drive!!

 

[galpinos]

Not massively weird, but my ears pricked up the other day when I heard a radio 6 presenter say "I heard this one at the climbing wall, big up Manchester Depot"

Which presenter?

 

[mark20]

Definitely wasn't Iggy Pop..
I think it was Friday evening, so probably Afrodeutsche, who Wiki says in Manc based

 

[Fiend]

Not sure where to put this but it was quite life-affirming

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClimbingCircleJerk/s/O70x9pd5vF

 

[lagerstarfish]

Possibly slightly off topic, but Ilkley quarry featuring here.

https://youtu.be/EeP7OdZQnNA?si=P6JVtjfHge90scEA

 

[SamT]

I'd noticed that on their album artwork earlier this year.

Their a Leeds band I think

Hadn't seen the vid though.

 

[webbo]

I'd noticed that on their album artwork earlier this year.

Their a Leeds band I think

Hadn't seen the vid though.

Which might be the reason the Corn Exchange features. Amazing how you recognise things you haven’t seen for 20 years. The Corn Change not Ilkley Quarry.

 

[edshakey]

Yeah they met in Leeds, studying at the conservatoire, and some (all?) are from Leeds/W Yorkshire - saw them recently and think the lead singer said something about growing up in Ilkley?

 

[lemony]

Possibly slightly off topic, but Ilkley quarry featuring here.

Not just that, they've snuck Henry Price in too at 1:30, for the true connoisseur.