The Imam Adnan street near Taksim is home to one of the most garishly-decorated indie rock bars in history. A purple stairway lined with notebook-doodle style characters greets you as soon as you enter through the door. Welcome... can you resist the urge to advance?
So... purple! Must... resist! The drawings get progressively more irksome as you climb up the seemingly endless flights of stairs. The unnerving atmosphere is further enhanced by the fact that the drawings talk to you. "The world is one day, that one day is today!" announces the green-headed gimp with the ironic business suit. Wow! Like, so deep!
Do you think this grotesque work is the product of one amateur artist, or a dozen? I could not decide. Nor could I understand if all those faces were meant to be famous rock stars, or a pantheon of aneuryism-suffering peace kids. Notice how someone has administrated the finishing touch by artfully applying a sticker of John Lennon, that tax-dodging, hypocritical twat.
At last! The view that greets you as you climb to the top floor of the apartment. Despite my artistic rants, this place is actually very comfortable and friendly, and the live music keeps on playing every day of the week, until dawn. Given that it can get impossible find a decent bar in the middle of the week, Pulp Live Music Bar is always a Pearl-Jam-busting oasis.This bar was actually located in a ground-floor establishment right around the corner. It used to host a myriad of local punk-alternative-indie bands, as it still does. However, during the fall of 2004, a crowded punk concert turned into a massive three-way fight between young punks, the establishment and various other drunken thugs. The police arrived to seal down the scene, and Pulp was forced to relocate to its present place on top of the Yesilcam Theatre. For more information, please visit their website. (It's only in Turkish, sorry!)
