Tag: the albion rooms

Dean Fragile has three really interesting videos from inside the Albion Rooms as it’s being done up! This is the most recent one, from July, and it’s full of PUPPIES (and Peter on his BMX and posing in a sailor hat). Go subscribe to his channel so he’ll hopefully upload more! 

Another story from Margate that I’ve been meaning to tell is the Tales of the Painter, haha. When we were first outside the Albion Rooms on the Sunday morning, he was just finishing up the paintwork on the outside of the building. He was very friendly and happy to talk to us, and we chatted with him several times over the time we were there. We decided he was called “Steve” or “Dave” because they always are, haha, but we never learnt his actual name, sorry lad! He’s done the whole outside of the building in 23 days, and is about to start on the inside, which has all been plastered now. He’s been staying there too, in Gary’s room, but when Gary is there he moves into the attic, which is full of Peter’s artwork, with canvases all over, and he said when he sleeps up there he’ll wake up with a cat in his face, lol.

He said scaffolding should’ve been going back up on the Monday as they’re doing some alterations to the dormer windows on the top floor? But when we saw him at the party on Sunday, we weren’t surprised that no scaffolding was forthcoming the day after, lol. He told us on Tuesday that he’d got back to the Albion Rooms at 5am or something, fallen asleep on the sofa, gone out again to the pub the day after, and when he got back Peter was like, “Don’t you ever stop?!” I thought that was an amusingly wholesome Peter story, haha. 

We asked if the boys were moving back in to start work on the record etc, and he said, rather vaguely, “Eventually…” but I think they’re still hoping to open the bar by October, so he’d better get a shift on I guess!