Many of the guys we saw sitting outside the empty bars were transfixed by their mobiles. And that's the problem, foretold to me by Jim Lumsden years ago before his departure from Boyztown. Social Media and dating.
There will continue to be a place for bars in places like the JC, offering drinks, socialisation and with a few guys on the side, but not twenty (or was it twenty-two?) as there were in March. There are no longer enough of us to go round. Half a dozen bars might hack it and their vibrancy would attract other punters.