Multi-national conglomerate theme bars

Whilst having a night on the town last night, we apparently ended up in a theme bar although I must say, the theme was somewhat lost on me.






Walkabout is allegedly an "Australian" theme bar, in the Northern Quarter of Leeds City Centre and whilst it might just be me, the "theme" doesn't really come across.

Here are the factors that make Walkabout think that they are Australian:

• They pretend that beers, brewed 20 miles up the road in Tadcaster, are actually Australian beers.
• They have a surfboard on the ceiling.

That was about it. I'm not Australian so I can't really comment on what an "Australian bar" should look like, but the place comes across as more "B&Q" than Brisbane.

Theme bars don't really seem to work. The only one that ever did was probably Big Lil's in Bramley's Yard. The theme their was "So you have given up on life and you want to kill yourself." It was that effective, they shut it down.