The Pilot Inn was a great meeting place for the O2 show. Just 5-10 minutes walk from the tube station next to the O2 arena, not too packed, still lots of great fans and friends. Also, they played Stones music and served great food and beer. Perfect for show day on Thursday and Sunday as well. See you there, anytime during the afternoon.

To find the Pilot Inn, just walk out of the North Greenwich (Jubilee Line) tube station next to the millenium dome (O2), leave at bus terminal exit A, walk like 5-10 minutes along the road East Parkside or West Parkside, or across the field between these. At the end of the field you will see the Pilot Inn. Also see details in the London travel pages.

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Bjornulf

Hey Bjornulf, nice to meet you briefly yesterday!

The Pilot Inn is indeed a great place, and they were really helpful with the music. I brought along some stones cd's, and one of the bar staff went and found another cd player and connected it (their normal system uses some special dvd thing that doesn't accept regular cd's) and allowed me to play my cd's and turn the volume UP UP UP!!

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What's your favourite flavour?...........Cherry Red!!

excellent meeting HQ

great selection of ales
food menu was good

and Mr jimmy's music rocked!

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Cheers Adrian!

What a show eh? What a show...

I am still really buzzing from last night, and I think I will still be buzzing from last night right up until they hit the stage on thursday...

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What's your favourite flavour?...........Cherry Red!!

can't wait for thursday Jimmy, they set themselves a high standard, last night.

hope for a 'suprise' at the Hogg show, tonight!

What a week - The Pilot Inn was great - do they have a piano in there Mr Jimmy?!
Let's do it all again on Thursday........

Hi Bjornulf et al,

Hope to see you there Sunday afternoon. Nice to catch up with you and Susan from Vienna again last night...I was the guy sitting in the seat directly behind you.

Maybe I'll get to meet up with Gazza again too...and withsssoul, paulywaul etc.etc.

Lee

what about the important information.

how much was a pint of beer/lager

how much was a meal.

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> what about the important information.
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> how much was a pint of beer/lager
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> how much was a meal.


London Pride was £2.80. I don't think the food was TOO dear.

To all I met at the Pilot Inn yesterday and have YET to meet tomorrow and Sunday ... it was great and lets do it again. Loved the place ... GREAT executive decision Bjornulf (I THINK it was you who decided on it) to choose the Pilot Inn. And Mr Jimmy, GREAT GREAT CD's you made up ... thanks a mill. Now behave yourself tomorrow, amd by the way folks ... it's a HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MR JIMMY for Thursday 23rd August. The whippersnapper of a pup is a mere 30 years old and he's gonna be seeing the Rolling Stones from the SECOND row on the floor on his birthday. I mean really: HOW f f f f f f f f far out and f f f f f f f f funky is that children ???????????

Happy birthday Mr J !! All da best !!

bloody hell Jimmy, seeing The Stones on your birthday,
is a wonderful thing
(it was my turn @ Wembley Stadium in '99)

just don't get too pissed in the Pilot, beforeheand!

Haha, cheers guys... I will have my dad and my brother with me thursday, to keep me from getting too "out of control"...

Sunday however, I am attending on my own, and will have only you 'crazies' to keep me from trouble...

Which is of course a good thing.

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Good to know, see you there tomorrow..

How "good" is the food? I mean, if there are a few 100 people, I can imagine it being a bit of a problem.
Maybe better to eat elsewhere?

any pictures of the debauchery?

Hi,

The best pre-show venue by a mile,country or otherwise!

Great beer,and food was fine...steak with onions for £12 hit-the-spot.

Oh yeah,and the music and company was pretty good too!

Cheers,

Si.

12 pounds! yikes!! 25 bucks for pub fare . . .

Hi Nikki,

Nah...there's some stuff for nearer the £8 mark...it's just that I'm a fat bastard in training,hah-hah!

Cheers,

Si.

So it wasn't too crowded ? I thought that place would be absolutely packed - like last years pub in London

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> So it wasn't too crowded ? I thought that place
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> in London


no it was comfortable.
its not within sight of the Arena.
you wouldn't mistakenly, stumble across it.

Hence, the only Stonesfans there, were the ones who read the boards.

Thanks Adrian, that's nice to know.

On Sunday we have read they serve a traditional English lunch with all the trimmings. Is this going to make it harder to find a seat and get some different food?

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oh yeah, nothing says ROCK N ROLL like a post-church gorging on overcooked meat . . .

It is traditional English pub food. Price around 8 pounds which is totally fine with me. Nothing wrong with the food. The beer is great. London Pride bitter works great and I am told that this brewery FULLER is in fact not a large corporate but local to the London area and not even national, so that works even better for me (I do not like the large beer consotiums destroying the local historic brands).

If we did not list this pub as a meeting place on IORR then I am sure there would be very few Stones fans finding their way there. They are so close to the O2 you would not believe it - still very few people come in from that direction. And once you are in England why not get a taste of the drinks and the food and the feel that made these guys - the Stones - what they are today.

See you at the Pilot Inn tomorrow!

Bjornulf

I'll trye to get there on sunday. Looking forward to meet you all

Aye - I'll be joing you all on Sunday, having just scored a ticket! I'll be the one who can't believe his luck..

See ya Sunday! And yep, we decided on the IORR shirts for the show!

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> See ya Sunday! And yep, we decided on the IORR
> shirts for the show!

That's what I planned to do yesterday, but I spent so long hunting for the bloody thing (without success) that I missed the meet-up as well.

I hope for better luck at the weekend.

You might have to scrape me off the floor at the end of the tour, but it'll be really good scrapings. - Mick Jagger

Hope to see you there on Sunday...going tomorrow as well (great gig on Tuesday), going to try to upgrade ticket for tomorrow from C3. A1 7th row for Sunday...staying at the St. Giles Sunday night. FGreat to meet you in Paris, met a couple of guys who were also there last night.
This could be the last time, oh no....

Chris & Pam

Satisfied since 1976

bv Wrote:
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> It is traditional English pub food. Price around 8
> pounds which is totally fine with me. Nothing
> wrong with the food. The beer is great. London
> Pride bitter works great and I am told that this
> brewery FULLER is in fact not a large corporate
> but local to the London area and not even
> national, so that works even better for me (I do
> not like the large beer consotiums destroying the
> local historic brands).
>
> If we did not list this pub as a meeting place on
> IORR then I am sure there would be very few Stones
> fans finding their way there. They are so close to
> the O2 you would not believe it - still very few
> people come in from that direction. And once you
> are in England why not get a taste of the drinks
> and the food and the feel that made these guys -
> the Stones - what they are today.
>
> See you at the Pilot Inn tomorrow!

I raise my glass to you bv! i can't wait to be there on Saturday drinkup everyone and CHEERS! SEE YOU SOON!