Category Archives: Howwood

Poker Nights, Pubs Quiz Nights and Live Music – Part of our new Events in Renfrewshire Section

As part of our aim to cover all sorts of social activity within Pubs, Bars and Inns across Renfrewshire, we can now announce the new section of our site focused on Events in Renfrewshire.

This section of the site will run alongside our regular event updates on Facebook, but rather than post every week on Facebook about weekly pub quiz nights, weekly poker nights and so on, we thought we’d simply create a list of weekly events for you to refer to.

We’ll continue to use Facebook events to let you know of individual bands playing in the area, or one off events such as comedy nights and psychic night, but will keep details of karaoke nights, quiz nights etc on site.

To get started, the first events added within our new Events in Renfrewshire pages include the weekly Poker League hosted by pubs across Renfrewshire, pub quiz nights hosted by pubs across Renfrewshire and of course a list of all the live music we’ve been made aware of so far.

We’ll soon be adding other events and more live music as pubs and bands make us aware of dates.

As always, if you’ve any events you’d like added, please let us know.

A weekend of Rock n Roll and Brain Testing

For those who haven’t heard them play before, GrooveFellas are described as delivering a selection of Loud, Dirty, Mean, Raw and Vicious Rock ‘n’ Roll. With a description like that, why wouldn’t you go to see them!

We’ve had a couple of Gigs listed for the GrooveFellas guys and after chatting to them, we’re hoping to provide detail on more gigs in the near future. This weekend they are playing The Howwood Inn, Howwood … so get along and support them.

If you can’t make it along, don’t worry. They’ll also be playing The Trust Inn, Kilbarchan in March.

Not really in the mood for Rock n Roll? Then why not try one of the Pub Quiz nights that are going on this weekend. We’re still collecting information on more locations, but can tell you on good knowledge that there is a Pub Quiz in the Houston Inn tonight, and another in Harrys Bar, Renfrew, on Sunday night.

We’re also collecting information on a number of other events such as Poker, Darts, Psychic nights and karaoke nights, so if anyone knows of any coming up in Renfrewshire, that we don’t have listed on Facebook or in our Renfrewshire Events pages, drop us an email and let us know.

15 more pubs added to the database, including The Afton, Canal Station, The Viscount, The Eriskyne and more!

Continuing with our efforts to add all Renfrewshire Pubs to our database, we can announce that another 15 have been added today. Are any of these your local? If so, head to the relevant page and leave a comment or rate the pub.

Todays additions:

The Viscount, Renfrew
The Western Bar, Renfrew
Pickwicks Bar, Renfrew
The Abbots Inch, Renfrew

Canal Station, Paisley
The Afton Bar, Paisley
Burgh Bar, Paisley
The Kelburne Bar, Paisley
The Craig Dhu, Paisley
The Wee Howff, Paisley

The Eriskyne, Erksine
Park Mains, Erskine

The Bishopton Inn, Bishopton
Lorimers, Bishopton

The Railway Inn, Howwood

Remember, we’re looking for news updates from pubs within our database, to help keep the locals up-to-date. So, if any of these are your pub, or your local pub, then feel free to start sending us details of events, offers and news and we’ll post on our website.

2011 Rugby Union 6 Nations: What pubs are showing matches?

It’s that time of the year when the 6 Nations are on and Rugby rules the TV over football for a change! But where all can you see the games in Renfrewshire?

If you own a pub (or know of a pub) in Renfrewshire that will be screening any of the matches, please let us know so we can add you to the list below! We’ll link your name to your page on Renfrewshire Pubs so that people know where to find you.

The pubs we know of, so far, that are showing some (or all) of the games:

Howwood
The Howwood Inn

Paisley
The Wee Howff

Note: If visiting any of the listed pubs to watch the games, please get in touch with them first to confirm they are still showing the game!

6 NATIONS FIXTURE LIST:

Friday, 04 February 2011
Wales v England, 19:45

Saturday, 05 February 2011
France v Scotland, 17:00, Italy v Ireland, 14:30

Saturday, 12 February 2011
England v Italy, 14:30, Scotland v Wales, 17:00

Sunday, 13 February 2011
Ireland v France, 15:00

Saturday, 26 February 2011
England v France, 17:00, Italy v Wales, 14:30

Sunday, 27 February 2011
Scotland v Ireland, 15:00

Saturday, 12 March 2011
Italy v France, 14:30, Wales v Ireland, 17:00

Sunday, 13 March 2011
England v Scotland, 15:00

Saturday, 19 March 2011
France v Wales, 19:45, Ireland v England, 17:00, Scotland v Italy, 14:30

Keep up to date with all fixtures and matches on the official RBS 6 Nations website.

The Renfrewshire Pubs website is now open!

Welcome to the first of many announcements on RenfrewshirePubs.co.uk! We thought we’d get the ball rolling by announcing our launch and our intention to now work towards adding every pub in Renfrewshire to our database. A big task, no doubt, but ultimately worth it we think.

Why are we doing this?

Well, we’re all aware of the possibilities of advertising across the Internet, but we also appreciate that not every pub or bar has budget to spend on such activity, even if they want to get involved. So we’ve launched this site specifically to promote on behalf of Renfrewshire Publicans. We want to see just what impact we can make by applying our experience of Internet Marketing and helping out our local establishments.

What do the good Publicans need to do?
They don’t have to do anything if they’d prefer not to. However, we built this to help them promote everything about their pubs and bars. Whether it be charity nights, race nights, wins in the local darts league, special offers, screenings of sports events or any other bit of information that might encourage readers to find out more, we want publicans to send it to us so that we can then distribute it across the website, through our social media platforms (including Facebook) and through our regular eMarketing Newsletter.

Now what?

Well, it’s going to take time to add every pub and patience to make sure we get all the information correct. We’ll work away on that part of the process, but if you want to email details of a pub, it would be very much appreciated (just email pubdetails@renfrewshirepubs.co.uk). You don’t have to own the pub, you could just be a regular. As long as the details are accurate, we don’t mind who sends them! (we need pub name, address, phone number, picture (if possible), website if they have one and Facebook page if they have one).

Advertising
Most of this venture is being supported through advertising on the site. We’ll keep it related to Renfrewshire and the surrounding area as possible, allowing us to help other local business in the process. So, if you are a Renfrewshire (or surrounding area) business looking to advertise to all who may use this site, check out our advertising options and contact us for pricing. You can advertise on this site for as little as £30 per month!

What pubs are already on the site?
Not to many yet, but we’re working on it! Some initial pubs, however, include The Brown Bull (Lochwinnoch), The Ferry Inn (Renfrew), Braehead Tavern (Inchinnan) and The River Inn (Crosslee) .

If you’d like your pub or bar added sooner rather than later, email us the details as above.