New joint landlord of Sheffield's The Harlequin tells plans for pub

Chris Bamford, joint landlord of The Harlequin with Kate Major, has revealed plans for The Harlequin pub following its reopening after a renovation.

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00:00It's a pub I've known for a long time since I worked here, sort of for three and a half years from 2008.

00:04I always thought it's an amazing pub and so to be responsible for the running of it now is

00:11really pleasing and really kind of honoured, I think.

00:15Yeah, amazing. So you've just had your first weekend. How did that go? Did you see any familiar faces?

00:20We did, yes. Yes, there were even somebody I first served on my first shift in 2008

00:27came along on opening night, lots of old regulars came in, some people who've been

00:31drinking here all the way through the last 10 years or so, some people who'd kind of

00:36drifted away and wanted to pop their head back in because they'd heard that it was under new

00:40management and refurbished a bit. So yeah, it's really good. Our ethos is very much like pubs are

00:45a big part of the community. They're called public houses for a reason, so we kind of want

00:50everyone to feel welcome here and just kind of make it a bit of a community hub hopefully.

00:55It's always been quite a good live music pub, a good space sort of band setting up down the bottom.

00:59We want to restart that in the coming weeks because I think it's a pub that really suits that

01:05and there's been some really good nights in the past that I remember from my time here before.

01:10The jazz pianist Dale Storr played his first ever gig here and Frank White, the old Czech old

01:17music guitarist, played loads of gigs here. So things like that would be good to sort of

01:22give the next generation of up-and-coming musicians a chance.