Cheap Samuel Smith's and their barring of music. Last year, on the night before the festival started, I wandered into a Sam Smith's and found the beer there incredibly cheap and incredibly agreeable. I got talking to the landlord, who also turned out to be agreeable. "Will you be calling in again?", he asked as I emptied my glass. "Regrettably not", I replied. "I'll be that busy chasing pubs where they do allow music, that I just won't have the time." Sam Smith's sure shot themselves in the foot over that one.
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