C21 bar/club in Shrewsbury gets ready to open.

Shropshire Star

We catch up with C21 bar/ club as its hands on to get the venue ready to open again.

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00:00We're here in Shrewsbury at C21 and we're here with Lee. Hello Lee.

00:04How are you doing?

00:05Cool, and Andy.

00:06Are you okay?

00:07Cool, yeah good thank you. So tell us about C21. It's a work in progress at the minute

00:13but it's soon to have its doors open to the public, yeah?

00:16That's it. We've got two more days.

00:19Seven o'clock Friday we are going to open for public.

00:22Now you're no stranger to C21 are you? Have you been here before?

00:27I have, yes. A little bird told me it's a popular reunion to bring Lee back to C21.

00:36So what is C21 all about then? If people haven't been here before there's quite a few different

00:41elements to it isn't it? It's almost like different zones within you know.

00:45Tell us, talk us about C21 and what it is.

00:48We've basically got three different areas which is basically what it used to have.

00:54So if you go back about 10 years we're trying to take C21 back to its heyday where it actually was.

01:01Which is why we've maintained the brand.

01:04We've got the main C21 bar and next phase is going to be a live music venue.

01:12Yeah through that lion's mouth that'll be a live yeah.

01:14That's it. That's phase two. And then we've obviously got the other club area as well.

01:22So that's kind of like a VIP section almost when you go through the doors there.

01:26Yeah almost. We've sort of got two different

01:29music genres on the go at one time.

01:33So what sort of music then?

01:35Well we'd like to attract some of the older generation back out because you don't feel

01:39there's anywhere in town for for them to go at the moment.

01:43Yeah.

01:43So we're definitely sort of 80s, 90s and noughties in one of the rooms.

01:48Whereas we might be something a bit more modern.

01:51Maybe some house music in the other.

01:53But I feel that we're playing two totally different genres of music.

01:58We can sort of pull everyone in really.

02:01And what's happening? We've got the peach tree restaurant space at the front.

02:05What's happening there? Is that going to be opening as a restaurant again?

02:07It is yeah. We was planning to open 30th August end of this month.

02:13The Momo used to be that's gone and we're going to bring the Turkish restaurant as well.

02:19Yeah. So yeah I've learned something new.

02:22So that's kind of like the Man Atlas like barbecue.

02:24I've got like a barbecue.

02:25Yeah. Yeah. Great. So yeah.

02:27That's the one.

02:28Sounds good. My lips, my mouth's watering.

02:33So Andy we're in a space here. This was at one point a noodle bar.

02:37Yeah.

02:38But this is where Lee's going to be bringing back his Turkish kind of barbecuey grill area up here.

02:43That's it. Correct.

02:44So he's basically opening the peach tree back as the peach tree used to be.

02:49Yeah.

02:49I'm keeping the name. But what was the noodle bar is going to be Turkish barbecue.

02:56Awesome. I mean it's obviously we join you at the point of it being a building site.

03:02But great features in there. I mean all these beams and that.

03:06You know you can't kind of buy those can you. You know what I mean.

03:14That is cool.

03:18And then you've got a lovely little section here in the middle.

03:21Your little terrace area we call it.

03:23And then the hopes for the future. Not quite set in place. There's a few boxes to take paperwork.

03:30But you're hoping to bring like a bit of a shisha lounge area as well.

03:32That's right sir. Yes. That's our plan to bring the shisha lounge and then see how it's going sir.

03:38So what's your backgrounds then. So Lee what's what's your background. Is it all is it bars and clubs. Is that your world.

03:44No. To be honest little coffees restaurants. Oh okay. Yeah. In the town here in Shrewsbury.

03:50In town centre. I own Peaberry coffee. Yeah. And the Daily Brew. Okay yeah.

03:56And I've got food bits as well like takeaways. Yeah yeah. And Andy what about yourself.

04:02So I basically run an electrical contracting company. Yeah. And she's been selling electrical.

04:11But myself and Lee have known each other for over 20 years now. Yeah. And I've worked together on

04:17quite a lot of these premises. Obviously this one's very big. So he's asked if I'll come on board and

04:24help him sort of manage and run it. Well I mean I know it's all systems go at the minute but you can

04:31you can get a flavour of what it's going to be you know. I mean just the same here looks very chilled

04:35doesn't it. We don't have a lot of work in four weeks. Yeah. And there's nothing like when we walked in.

04:40Yeah. We spent about two weeks of that undoing. Just yeah. Yeah. Well we wish you all the best guys and

04:50you know if the glimpse of what we're getting today is anything to go by it's going to look absolutely

04:54stunning. So yeah good luck guys. Cheers. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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