Last night was the first night in Charlie´s in two years that we met a little trouble.

Two or three gentlemen who couldn’t understand that our bar is about enjoying music in peace decided that it was ok to knock people and their drinks over while dancing. They were told to relax themselves and chill out, but they decided that they wanted to fight. we are very careful who we let into Charlies, but these two fooled us, I suppose. They tried to throw a few digs at me and I went outside the door so that they would follow me, and they did just that. They went mad outside and in two seconds realised that the whole band and some customers were trying to calm them. This didn’t work and for about 10 minutes they kept trying to damage anyone that they could.

As I said to the customers and the band afterwards “if you’re going to run a bar like we do until 4 am every night, it’s a fantastic record not to have trouble for two years, and we never even came close to it before, thank God. We have the best clientele on the island and we are very proud of it, but there will always be the odd one….”

I would really like to thank the Guardia Civil for reading and handling the situation so fast. They were fantastic professionals.

I would also like to thank the decent customers of Charlie´s who gave us a hand last night. It’s not for me to thank Skin & Hide and the staff behind the bar for helping out, because they would shoot me for the simple
reason that it’s not “me and them”, and they would all take it as an insult if I thanked them because we are simply one, looking out for each other.

Those two or three gentlemen can count themselves lucky that we are a very peaceful bunch who were only trying to contain the situation, because if we were as violent in nature as them, believe me, they wouldn’t be well for a very long time to come. They didn’t understand that we were trying to protect them from getting
hurt, regardless of how violent they were to us.

We try to read people as they come in to Charlie´s and, as everyone knows, we get it right 99.9999% of the time. This was the very first incident at Charlie´s in the two years since we started, and that can’t be a bad record.

One thing that I myself am very proud of (if I can blow my own trumpet for a second) is of putting such a fantastic bunch of human beings together. You all see them as brilliant musicians and bar staff (which they are), but they are much, much more, and the music is only the surface of who they are.

It could be said that I shouldn’t have written this blog post at all, but there is nothing that beats the truth, and there was no way myself and Skin & Hide and the staff couldn’t take the opportunity to thank the customers and the police for helping out.

We look forward to an other two years of drink/sex feck in peace at Charlie´s and wish all our customers a pleasant holiday at our bar and while on Lanzarote.

From all of us at Charlie´s, thanks again for your help and ENJOY!

P.S.: If the lads from the Guardia Civil ever feel thirsty on their night off, you know where you will be welcomed.