Welcome - Random Schmandom

Welcome to Ten's blogspot.  Here we proudly present our unique venue, cocktails, staff, parties and much more.

Updated twice a week this site shows you what's going on, how to book your celebration or event, a bit of fun and looks back at some of the past events at Worthing's ultimate party venue.

In this post we take a look at Ten's weekend, preview up-and-coming entertainment for the bank holiday weekend, announce the winners of our FITC competition, have an article on the 'self', and show you couple of videos from YouTube.com.


FITC COMPETITION:
A scorching weekend brought a rather more tanned looking crowd to Ten over the weekend, and here are the faces we thought were worthy of this weeks £10 bar tabs.  To claim your prize all you need to do is contact us through our Facebook page and we'll send you a printable voucher which you hand to either Daniel or Rob.

Congratulations to those two winners, and we look forward to seeing that winning face of yours at Ten soon!  To be one of the recipients of next weeks prizes then turn up at Ten on a Friday or Saturday night and grab the attention of the photographer, you'll recognise him by the camera and the mo-hawk.


COMING UP THIS WEEKEND:

Oh yes its another wonderful bank holiday, and Ten is bringing you a weekend to match the daytime heat.  On Friday we have our resident matriarch of music DJ Ian Diggers rising out his party tunes till 2am, followed on Saturday night by DJ A.D.Hall; VDJ, award winner and nice guy.  And to make sure your weekend is rounded off we have The Channel performing their variety of popular covers live.

And of course the best part is that you could be one of the lucky ones who have the day off on Monday - you lucky lucky people!


RANDOMNESS LESS PONDERED:
The concept of 'who am I' and 'individual' has given philosophers cause to stay awake for over the years; whilst pondering the question 'why?' - and subsequently being left by your wife - some thinkers have told us that we are all running the same tape, nothing is random and that individuality is an illusion.  But then we are also told that biting your nails is a nervous redirection of nervous distension, and that one way or another we all want to have sex with our parents  Go natural progression to reflect ones synthesis of personality!

But then the process of establishing the state of your own being leads to such interesting questions about life and living, and if you stop questioning and looking into yourself are you still living? 

I watched a film which made me question the world around me. So I decided that I'd share a vastly summarised thought process which goes something like this: The world is a crazy place, and if I was given the wisdom of a complete knowledge of it all, I'd probably wish I never knew. Nothing like a bit of good old fashioned ambiguity!


SOMETHING ELSE:
In keeping with our rather random subject matter in this post we were going to selected some random programmes from YouTube.  But as you could argue that nothing is truely random; as the human mind works through associates and logial relationships, albeit largely subconscious, and therefore the videos wouldn't be random unless selected my a non-centient being.  And so to avoid further theological entanglements the videos in this post are 'random' nostalgic kids TV shows - random yet relatable.  Enjoy!







Thanks to everyone who is involved with the running of Ten, and a little mention to Robbie the guy who fixes various things around the place.  We hope to see you in Ten soon!

Welcome - Tide of the Insomniac

Welcome to Ten's blogspot.  Here we proudly present our unique venue, cocktails, staff, parties and much more.

Updated twice a week this site shows you what's going on, how to book your celebration or event, a bit of fun and looks back at some of the past events at Worthing's ultimate party venue.

In this post we take a look at Ten's weekend, preview Northbrook College's up-and-coming fundraiser, announce the winners of our FITC competition, have an article on the joys of insomnia, give you a glimpse behind scenes at Ten and a show you couple of videos from YouTube.com.


FITC COMPETITION:
Making a decision on who should win is always a difficult process, but there's a few people who made themselves stand our this week so here are the winners.  To claim your prize all you need to do is contact us through our Facebook page and we'll send you a printable voucher which you hand to either Daniel or Rob.

Congratulations to both of the winners and if you'd like the chance to win a £10 bar tab for your weekender, just turn up at Ten on a Friday or Saturday night and do something to attract the attention of our photographer Lukas.



HOW MANY TEN STAFF DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHT-BULB?

Here at Ten we work hard to keep our unique venue happy, from relentless vacuuming to die hard mopping, our staff never tire of straightening Ten's tie.  So in this post we decided to show you some of what it takes, in particular how we change a light bulb.  You may think its just a case of taking out the old bulb and replacing it with a new one.  Not quite the case at Ten, as some of the bulbs are 30ft up in the roof; The bulb on this particular occasion was inside a projector in the apex of said roof.

The only way to safely reach them is to hire some help, so 10 metres of scaffolding later three staff members stand proudly admiring their handy work.  One awkward part of the process was the decision of who was going up, usually such an important managerial decision is settled by paper, scissors and stone, but this time we just sent the two people who were least scared of dieing from the side effects of terminal velocity.

You'll be pleased to know that our brave 'volunteers' completed the task, and the only casualty was a couple of pairs of pants!  In the picture on the right you can see Daniel and Luke working on the projector; which refused to be fixed.  Unfortunately this meant re-hiring the scaffolding a week later to put the projector back up.

So the answer to the question is 3 - granted it's not exactly the most amusing punchline.


NORTHBROOK COLLEGE FUNDRAISER:

To raise vital funds Northbrook College University students will be performing live entertainment including: volunteers will be getting their body parts waxed, massages for small donations, raffle and much more besides!!! There will even be a 'Full Monty' show starring Ten's very own bar tender Liam Millard.  The event will be hosted by local DJ Ian Diggers Digweed, and Ten Cocktail Bar will be making drinks deals available.

Come and support your local college and university, and join us for some mid-week mania.  Tickets £2 in advance and £2.50 on the door. For more information or to get your tickets visit Ten Cocktail Bar or call us on 01903 238 392.


INSOMNIAC THE POSTULANT:

Those of us who lay awake at night are the lucky ones in some respects.  While those 'normal' people are happily dreaming about being 'normal', we are busy thinking about life's little mysteries.  Having sorted out the answer to the 'chicken and egg' question and have moved onto other issues such as 'why are we here?' or 'why do men have nipples?'.  (The answer to the latter is because the human body is formed with nipples prior to the formation of genitalia, and the body is too lazy to get rid of them afterwards.  But then where would they go?  You'd be informed by the midwife "It's a boy ... oh and some nipples!")

The latest question which has been determined through insomnia is 'what is a Deja Vu?'.  Also called paramnesia which literally means near or against memory, it seems to puzzle the mere mortal but us paramnesiacs have fathomed those depths.  During our sleep we have a great number of dreams, ones we remember and ones we don't, and over the years we have dreamt so many variables of scenarios.  Its logical to suggest that during our accumulated sleeps we will dream an event which will occur in our waking life.  Therefore we could also infer that its an anomaly of memory, giving the impression that an experience is being recalled.

In conclusion I think its reasonable to summise that if you need something reasoned into submission, take it for an all night ponder.


SOMETHING ELSE:
In keeping with our dreams related post we have selected a few videos with that in mind, enjoy!






Thanks to everyone who has worked with us over the last week, and we look forward to seeing you all for a party Ten style.

Welcome - Triple 'A' Post

Welcome to Ten's blogspot.  Here we proudly present our unique venue, cocktails, staff, parties and much more.
In our site you can find out what's going on, book your celebration or event, have a bit of fun or look back at some of the past events at Worthing's ultimate party venue.

In this 'AAA' post (The triple 'A' standing for Awkwardness, Awareness and Animals, its not a automotive rescue company based in Liverpool) we take a look at Ten's weekend, announce the winners of our FITC competition, have an article on life's little awkwardness's, give away WKD t-shirts and a show you couple of videos from YouTube.com. 


FITC COMPETITION:
There was only one night of pics this week as Ten went on tour; taking its cocktails and hosting to the party!  More about that coming up in the next few weeks.  This weeks winners are the recipients of a £10 bar tab each, if you are a lucky winner then all you need to do to claim your prize is to contact us through our Facebook group, and we'll send you a printable voucher.  Show the voucher to either Daniel or Rob and they'll make sure you are taken care of.

Congratulations to both of the winners and if you'd like the chance to win a £10 bar tab for your weekender, just turn up at Ten on a Friday or Saturday night and do something to attract the attention of our photographer Lukas.


AWARENESS:

Here at Ten we are committed to making your experience as memorable and fun as possible, and to support this we are working to keep the busiest bar in town drug-clean and drug-safe.

If you need any advice or have any questions about drug abuse, its effects or if your are worried about someone please talk to Frank or call 0800 77 66 00 or text him on 82111.


AWKWARDNESS'S:

There are times in everyone's life when you are confronted by certain awkward situations, usually situations where if you could only explain your actions it would alleviate the scenario.  It's moments such as when you say hello to someone you thought you knew or when you go to scratch your nose when talking to someone and you accidentally put your finger in your nostril.  And so to get them out of the way I've decided to open the conversation up.  There are ways of avoiding those little moments and Derren Brown came up with a wonderful way of avoiding the awkwardness on a train when you really don't want someone sitting next to you.  Rather than loading the seat with bags and looking out of the window ignoring them, he suggests looking them in the eye, smiling and patting the seat with your hand.

But the most awkward is when you are staying at a friends house overnight, and you need to use the toilet.  Do you flush and risk waking people up, or leave it hoping they don't assume you don't flush?  There should be a rule where not flushing is a sign of respecting their sleep, but what if you need to do a number 2?  There's no way you could leave a man-log there for them to find in the morning so flushing is necessary.  If only you could shout, "it's ok, its was a poo!  I was following toil-etiquette". 

Another example is when walking to your car in a garage forecourt when you have a passenger in the car that you're not too familiar with, or when on a first date.  There's a moment when you look up and catch eyes with them; do you look away, pre-empt the situation and already have your phone in hand to look busy, mess about with your keys to avoid eye contact?  You both know you've just had that little moment and you may have been wearing your serious face.  My solution to it all is to begin your next conversation with "isn't it funny when...." and put a little light on your feelings.

The epitome of Awkkkward

A-WKD GIVE-AWAY:

To bag yourself one of our WKD t-shirts all you need to do is tell us about your awkward moment.  Just join our Facebook group and post a message on our wall, and the best entries will each receive a prize.

SOMETHING ELSE...ANIMALS:

To end this weeks 'AAA' post here are a few videos from YouTube with the theme of animals.  Enjoy!

 

A massive thank you to everyone who has been involved with Ten, and all those who have joined us over the last week.  We look forward to your next visit!

Welcome - May the fourth be with you

Welcome to Ten's blogspot.  Here we proudly present our unique venue, cocktails, staff, parties and much more.
In our site you can find out what's going on, book your celebration or event, have a bit of fun or look back at some of the past events at Worthing's ultimate party venue.

In this cheeky post we take a look at Ten's venue hire, have a new one-off celebrity competition, announce the winners of our FITC competition, and a show you couple of videos from Youtube.com.


FITC COMPETITION:
Another round of FITC has been judged, and there was so many worthy contenders this week: We had hockey teams, birthdays and more to choose from.  Here are the lucky winners and each of them receive a £10 bar tab this weekend.

If you are one of this weeks winners, all you need to do is present your winning face at the bar on Friday or Saturday night and you'll have £10 to spend.  To have a shot at winning next week just find the guy with the camera and a mohawk and do something to attract his attention.  If you'd like to look through the pics from the last few weeks then have a look at our archive page.


TEN-U HIRE: (see what I did there, genius!)

Ten's FREE party planning gives you the flexibility to adapt the environment to your specifications. whether its a birthday party, stag or hen do, partying with work friends, Ten has the space to suit you. From VIP areas to hiring an entire floor, we can provide a wide variety of options for your event or celebration. Ten can accommodate up to 400 guests, arrange Live music and entertainment and also can provide a late license.

At Ten Cocktail bar we offer our visitors the ‘X’ factor that turns drinking into an experience made up as much by the interior design, the clientele and the music as the drink being served.  In the same way, Ten adds that extra ‘X’ to parties and events, setting the atmosphere as much as providing the location.


"WHICH CELEB...." COMPETITION:

Just for fun we've got a celebrity based competition.  This weeks question is:  Which famous celebrity's son is this spotted at Ten?  To answer all you have to do is leave a comment with your answers (no registration required), there are no prizes just the admiration of your piers.

Here's a couple of clues to help you:

• He has appeared on the BBC for 22 years.
• He was born 11th April 1960.
• Along side his TV appearances he writes columns for both the Sunday Times and The Sun.

SOMETHING ELSE:
The theme for our videos this week is 'pranks', following a pant ripping incident involving our General Manager and our Photographer.  Thanks to Youtube.com for allowing us to embed the files!






Many Many thank yous go out to all those who have visited or worked for Ten Cocktail Bar this week and we look forward to seeing you all again for more Ten flavoured frolics!