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Support your local: The Freemount
National World - LocalTV
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01/11/2024
The Freemount is one of the most popular bars in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, and here is why.
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Now when the assignment came through to talk up one of the best bars in the city
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I basically shut down because there are so many great options, but eventually I settled on the Fremont
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I sat down with one of the members of staff here, Alex, to find out what makes it so special
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Cheers
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Cheers
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Thank you very much
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Oh, I've not done a bad job
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I've been working here for almost a year now, started in November
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Cool, and how has that experience been for you?
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It's been great
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Yeah
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I absolutely love it
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I think it's because it gets that, I don't want to say northern kind of friendliness
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But everyone wants to have a chat with each other
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You can come out and then you'll meet random people
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And it's like, right, we've met at the Fremont, we'll just go somewhere else
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It's like, you'll meet a lot of people here in this pub that you wouldn't think you'd end up speaking to
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I came in, asked for a job, he gave me an interview and I started the same night
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Okay, wow, fair enough
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Talk me through that first shift then, how was that?
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It was terrifying, especially
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Just moving to Manchester as well, it was like, right, I need to get a job
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I need to do something to be a part of it
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And I came in here, it's been manic
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It must say quite a lot about the team here
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You'd like to say you walked in and then you started
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Yeah, oh the team's brilliant
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Well that's what I was going to say, because the staff, to maintain a decent crowd
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The staff must be friendly
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So what is it about the team that you enjoy working with?
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I'm not sure, it's just a flux of different characters really
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So that's what I like about it
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Coming back from the town where I grew up, it's like
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You know, it's good, but you go to pubs and it's like
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Drink served out kind of deal
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You have a chat with everyone, everyone's nice
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And to work with as well
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When I joined it was November time last year
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We had New Year's Eve
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And I'd never worked New Year's ever
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And when we started working there, I didn't know what to expect
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It was brilliant
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Drinks behind the bar and everything, so everyone's getting a bit
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You know, having a bit of fun
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And then when it hit midnight, shut the bar for 30 minutes
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My manager Noah
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He went round with three bottles of champagne
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Just feeding it to different people behind the bar
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Went off and then he started DJing
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It was just, everyone loved it
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It makes a relationship with the customers as well
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Which is what we want, because then it's easier to serve them
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Of course, well
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Up for the raisins
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Now you can see from that chat just how friendly
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And easy going the staff are
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Here's some of the reasons why customers find the place so special
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Some of the best Guinness in Manchester
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I would say
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In terms of the Northern Quarter in general
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I think it's one of the best parts
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We went over here for the Boxing Day
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Match in
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2022
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When we arrived, it was cold
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It was windy, it was what you call
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Classic Manchester weather
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Every place was shut down
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Until we stumbled upon a place called
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The Fremont
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And just as the door opened up
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We could hear the live band
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Playing
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And we just arrived on the
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Sweet Caroline
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I think the staff here are so good
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The staff are excellent
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And great, great view line
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I come here Friday and Saturday night
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I really like the live music
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It's fun to have a dance here
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So that's the Fremont, come down, give it a try
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