THANK YOU...

Well, the festive season is officially over and we just want to say a big thank you to everyone - locals and visitors from far and wide - who helped us to party our way through 2012 and make the year a big success!  We look forward to welcoming you back to the pub throughout 2013 and wish you all the best for the coming year.  

And...

...to continue our live entertainment into the new year, we're welcoming musician John Freddie Caldicott this Saturday 12th January from 9pm!!  

See you there :) 

Our Festive Entertainment Diary...

....at a glance!  We'll be rockin' around the Christmas Tree at  
The Larachs right into the New Year!! Join us for some festive fun...

Friday 21st December 
Karaoke Party

Sunday 23rd December - 
Our Alternative Christmas Pub Quiz!!   
The first half will feature festive questions on the theme Mary & Joseph.  Entry is £1.50 & includes sandwiches and a chance to win prizes!  


Monday 24th December  
Golden Oldies Party

Wednesday 26th December 
Live Music from John Freddy Caldicott at 9pm



Saturday 29th December  
Live Music from Andy Chung at 9pm
Find out more here.






 






Sunday 30th December 
Live Music with Danielle and Carrie at 8.30pm

Monday 31st December 
Golden Oldies Hogmanay Party with DJ Tiger

Wednesday 2nd Jan 
Live Music from John Freddy Caldicott at 4pm  

See you there!!  Meanwhile, Merry Christmas to you all this festive season!! xxx


Larachs Life is the official blog of The Larchmhor Tavern.  Find out more at our main website AND come and visit us in the real world -  we're a genuine fisherman's pub on the harbour in Pittenweem. Our friendly, truly local team will see to it that you enjoy a warm welcome, swiftly served drinks, mouth watering meals, perhaps a few well told stories and happy memories... 

Larach Locals: Meet Dave...

Occasionally, we like to loosen the tongues of our regulars (and bar team) with a couple of nips, before asking them to answer a few leading questions about their life in and around The Larachmhor Tavern.  It would be a shame to waste such great banter, so in a series of Q&As, we're asking our regulars and local characters to commit their stories to print, right here....

What's your name? 

Dave

Do you come here often?

Yes.

What are you doing in the East Neuk of Fife 
- Born & Bred, Settler, Part-Timer or Regular Visitor?

Born & Bred

Earning a living in this part of the world can lead to interesting work! Are you/have you ever been...

a) a fisherman    b) a bar person at The Larachs   c) all of the above    d) none of the above

d - none of the above

Feel free to tell us a bit about your background - we love hearing a life story!

I was born in St Andrews and grew up in Pittenweem. I've lived here my whole life and I'm a painter.

How long have you been drinking here?

I've been drinking here for about 27 years.

What do you love most about this pub?

Micha.   (Micha runs the pub and features in her own Larach's Life interview)

When you're not working or propping up the bar,  do you have any great hobbies or passions...that you can talk about here?

Line fishing with a rod at sea.

You must have plenty of memories in this pub - things you've seen, tales you've told, tales you've been told!   Is there a good story or memory you're willing to share with the whole bar (and world)? 

I can remember, many years ago, Bob Long - the owner at the time - coming out of here at 5am in the morning walking up the wynd to go to his house and dropping the till. All the money went flying up the wynd!!   He was as drunk as the customers!! Lol!

Favourite Drink?

Dry Martini.  (Micha interrupts: No it isn't... it's a pint of Ice Cold Tennants)

Favourite chat up line / conversation starter?

Get your coat, you've pulled!

Finally, they say you can pick up plenty of wisdom from working/drinking in a pub like this...tell us, what have you learned in the Larachs about life!?

Feck all...but the banter's good!

Additional comments from others at the bar during interview:

Micha: We grew up together, on the same street.  (Dave interrupts: I used to see Micha walk her cat...with a lead...never seen anyone do that before or since.)


Larachs Life is the official blog of The Larchmhor Tavern.  Find out more at our main website AND come and visit us in the real world -  we're a genuine fisherman's pub on the harbour in Pittenweem. Our friendly, truly local team will see to it that you enjoy a warm welcome, swiftly served drinks, mouth watering meals, perhaps a few well told stories and happy memories... 

Pub Wisdom: Why There's Always Room For Beer...

A professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty glass mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a jar of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open spaces between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar and of course the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous yes.

The professor then produced two cans of beer from under the table and then proceeded to pour the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the grains of sand. The students laughed.

"Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. 

The golf balls are the important things -- your family, your partner, your health, your children, your friends, your favorite passions -- things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

"The pebbles are the other things that matter, like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else -- the small stuff.

"If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. 

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out dancing. Play another 18.

"There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first -- the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the beer represented. The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of beers."

Look Into My Eyes....

...you are beginning to feel very sleepy!  

When you wake up...

...you might just meet your idol... become a rock star...

...have lots of laughs and enjoy a fantastic night out!

Sound like fun?  

Well, don't miss A Night with The Hypnotist - Ken Maybury at Pittenweem New Town Hall on Saturday 1st December.  

It's all in aid of the Muirhead Outreach Project.  

Tickets are just £7!  

You can get tickets from us at The Larachs or call 07712 657 464!

...now when I count back from 3, you will wake up, feel like a brand new person and buy your tickets for this exciting night, all for a great cause!

Three.... two......

You Know What Some Might Say....?

This weekend, on Saturday 24th November, it's your chance to see the ultimate Oasis tribute band - Definitely Might Be PLUS the hottest Stone Roses tribute band - Adored!

These rock n' roll stars - a tribute to two of the most influential British rock bands ever - go head to head right here in the East Neuk at Cellardyke Town Hall and it's all in aid of The East Neuk Wheelchair Appeal.

DEFINITELY MIGHT BE....

Tipped as Europe's No1 Tribute to Oasis and personally endorsed by Liam Gallagher, this band are the definitive tribute to Liam, Noel and the band!  The lead singer bears such an an uncanny resemblance to Liam and has such eerily sound-alike vocals that he's appeared as Liam on BBC1, Channel 4, Sky TV and ITV. He's also taken part in publicity campaigns and advertising for HMV Virgin Q Magazine, Loaded, Royal Bank Of Scotland, Lloyds Bank, the National Press and he was asked to provide the vocals on a dance remix of Wonderwall. CLICK HERE to LISTEN NOW.

ADORED...

"ADORED were just outstanding right through from ‘Waterfall’ to ‘I Am The Resurrection’, everything. They did two fabulous sets, what a great bunch of lads. The amount of calls I've had about the day and everyone has mentioned the band and how good they were they really are worth every penny."  - Gig Booker's Review

BOOK NOW...

Get your tickets for just £15 each in The Larachmhor Bar- support a local charity, have a rockin' night and see this tribute to two iconic bands - Oasis & The Stone Roses!

Larach Locals: Meet Tam & Billy...

Occasionally, we like to loosen the tongues of our regulars (and bar team) with a couple of nips, before asking them to answer a few leading questions about their life in and around The Larachmhor Tavern.  It would be a shame to waste such great banter, so in a series of Q&As, we're asking our regulars and local characters to commit their stories to print, right here....

What's your name? 

Billy Dunn & Tam Gay  

Do you come here often?

Tam:  Now and again....
Billy:  Oh...just every day...

What are you doing in the East Neuk of Fife - Born & Bred, Settler, Part-Timer or Regular Visitor?

Tam:  Born & Bred
Billy:  Never had the ambition to get out of it....

Earning a living in this part of the world can lead to interesting work! Are you/have you ever been...

a) a fisherman    b) a bar person at The Larachs   c) all of the above    d) none of the above

Tam:  a) a fisherman
Billy: a) a fisherman

(Billy & Tam work together every day at sea)

Feel free to tell us a bit about your background - we love hearing a life story!

Tam:  My old man's a bus driver but we've always had a boat in the family and I was at the sea with him from about 11 years old. I worked out of Aberdeen and the West Coast for a while....and all over the country.... but I've always been based here...I always returned home.

Billy: My family has always been in the fishing - and skippers of boats - but I was too thick to skipper one and gave up!  (lots of laughs from everyone at the bar)   I worked in London fitting sprinkers and then at the fishing, I ended up working on a Faroese boat doing a 6 month trip to Newfoundland.

(Interviewer:  Is Newfoundland an interesting place?)

Billy:  I was only on land in Newfoundland for 3 days. I ended up getting blootered. I'm banned from Iceland, though I think the ban's up because it only lasted 5 years.  I also sailed with a murderer - someone who chopped some guy's heid aff in an argument about a burd!   I've been all over the world watching Scotland play football - lost passports in most countries - but always found my way home, once on a Naval ship....

How long have you been drinking here?

Tam:  I've been drinking here since 1979. The year I was at the prawns.

Billy:  I've been drinking here since.... (ponders the question).... I was probably about 17, 1986....but had quite a long ban from here... so not sure how many years in total...

What do you love most about this pub?

Tam:  In the old days we had lots of good lock-ins where we'd be kicked out by the cleaners.  It was a great atmosphere with so many characters - Lucky Jim,  Ferrit, Johnny Gerrar, Peter Moobray...

Billy:  I like the pool team, all the fisherman being in the pub, some great laughs....

When you're not working or propping up the bar,  do you have any great hobbies or passions...that you can talk about here?

Tam:  I like shooting and drinking and chillin'....man.

Billy:  Watching Rangers.  And asking Trish if I can pop up to the bar.

You must have plenty of memories in this pub - things you've seen, tales you've told, tales you've been told!   Is there a good story or memory you're willing to share with the whole bar (and world)? 

Tam:  Me? Noooo....

Billy:  I remember coming in from the sea at 1am one Saturday night.... and I left the pub at 7.45am in the morning.   I had to land the fish at 11am.  It was a good job my dad's fish van went on fire that morning because someone knocked on the door and woke me up, otherwise I'd have slept in for work...

...During the Bob Long years, when my dad used to drink down here, my mum used to go mental and ask "where's your dad!!!???"  One night, my dad came up to the house and went to his bed.  Mum came back from the bingo and I told her he was still in the pub.   She marched down and banged on the door, thinking he was at a lock in!  The landlord had to shout down from his bedroom window and tell her "he's not here...the pub's shut!!"  Another time, mum dressed as a police woman and came into the pub - my dad and everyone all sh*t themselves -  it was another lock-in that night...

Tam: When the phone used to go in the pub, there would be total silence - and the answer would be "he's no here..."

Favourite Drink?

Tam:  It used to be OVD but I got banned from it.  So, now it's vodka.

Billy:  It used to be whisky but I had the same kind of problem as Tam and turned to OVD and it's alright with me.

Favourite chat up line / conversation starter?

Tam: Ahhh there's too many!  Where have you been all my life?   Nope, too many.  And heard them all!  It's easier just to chat to folk than try a line!

Billy:  I think my favourite one is....

I asked an English girl if I could **** her in my kilt.  She asked if it was kinky and I said - No - years ago, when we humped the English, we did it in our kilts.

Finally, they say you can pick up plenty of wisdom from working/drinking in a pub like this...tell us, have you learned anything in the Larachs about life!?

Tam:  Naaah.

Billy:  (after several minutes of thought).  Nah. 

Additional comments from others at the bar during interview:

Colin:  I couldn't write that doon. Censored!

Vicky: Billy's storytelling is legendary...and Tam's jukebox selections are pretty rockin' too.

Mo:  What?! (laughs) What could I say... (laughs again) It's good to see them coming in....

Billy: Brings a smile to your face...!

Mo:  Yes it does.

Billy: And we kill wasps for you.


Larachs Life is the official blog of The Larchmhor Tavern.  Find out more at our main website AND come and visit us in the real world -  we're a genuine fisherman's pub on the harbour in Pittenweem. Our friendly, truly local team will see to it that you enjoy a warm welcome, swiftly served drinks, mouth watering meals, perhaps a few well told stories and happy memories...