| Profile : Huw Green | Huw Green lives in Nottingham and loves the burgeoning Drum and Bass scene as well as Selectadisc and the Broadway cinema. In addition to attending as many gigs as possible, he likes to keep an eye on the weird and wacky around the city. He enjoys windsurfing and goes to Rutland water to catch a breeze whenever there is enough time. When he grows up, Huw wants to be Donald Sutherland in M.A.S.H. |
Oh my, The Pit and Pendulum is scary. No, I am not being facetious and no I don't mean scary like Wetherspoons on a Friday night scary. This is out and out occult-style scariness! | "I'm looking for a female to review Nottinghamshire's ladies loos. If you're interested contact: nottingham@bbc.co.uk" | | Huw Green |
The bookcase could be a little over the top when you are in a rush (imagine the frustration after diligently following the signs to the toilets), but it is convincing. It is easy to see how you could look stupid in front of the initiated, perusing legal tracts from 1911 only to be swept into a gothic commode and feel as if you are disappearing forever. The doors squeak as well: both of them! When you've found it, and left the comforting Halloween surrounds of the rest of the bar, you are well and truly alone.
 | | Gothic mirrors of the Pit |
It's like entering another dimension or some kind of sub-world. In order to find the appropriate toilet, it is necessary to follow mysterious symbols (Ok and M or an F) that are set in tiles on the floor. It's as if Opus Dei had been round and weren't too keen on just anyone having a wee. I look up but there aren't any bats, I check the mirror and thankfully I have a reflection, so far so normal. The gothic stylings don't quite carry you to Romanian churches but the effect isn't lost.
 | | Pit & Pendulum cubicles |
Maybe vampires and witches aren't all that fussy but the place could be cleaner. That said, I should count my blessings, I was expecting blood or ectoplasm or some such ghostly substance. The main mystery resides in the graffiti. Just who is responsible? Is this the secret code of a Satanist sect, converging on the Pit every solstice? Are they ancient runes left behind when this site was turned into a pub? Or is this the work of bored tag artists that is yet to be cleaned off? The Truth is out there. | 
