In Tarbes, the famous Celtic Pub has been sold since last November. Jean-Louis Abbadie, the boss, wants to “move on”. A decision that caused “personal reasons” after 19 years on the head of this concert bar.
The legendary pub will be soon. Jean-Louis Abbadie, the 45-year-old boss who was not indefinable from the premises, put his business for sale last November. A decision that has become inevitable. “Since 2020, I had the most or less vague work to sell. But last fall, the personal reasons he prefers to keep the situation of the situation: he no longer has time, he must sell.” I don’t go because I don’t like it anymore. Instead, I always have fun.
This is Rebel Celtic Pub in a real estate agency. “Looking for an iconic and informal place in the heart of Tarbes, a bar where you can relax, sing, dance, listen to good music with no less than 200 concerts per year (…) You will have a room with a bar of about 85 sq.m. August.
A place, 1000 atmospheres
A page that will soon turn to the Foundation celebrating its 19th birthday. “When I bought in 2006, I was 25 years old. I was connected rock. I wanted to do concerts,” he recalls. The concert bar becomes a popular neighborhood bar. “Without being sophisticated, he got another international reputation. From the 193 Member States, we received a hundred,” Jean-Louis Abbadie smiles.
Its four walls will keep many memories and secrets locked. First, because his place is unchanged and thanks: underground cellar, piano bar, correlative bar … “is a bar, here?” He asks a strange way from the road. “It’s a place that was always thrilled. One day, I received an English musician who asked me if the Celtic pub was very legal, if it were not a seat. Then, because hundreds of selective groups, rock, baroque, classic rap music, they followed one another. Head of the pipeline. “I have my little tips, I always adjust the style. For example, when it is jazz, I whisper behind the bar, “he whispers behind the zinc.
Its regular customers are already nostalgic. What about the whimsical bar with an overloaded ornament, a piano covered with stickers, the collection of foreign tickets and the duck hanging as piñata? Impossible to say today. In any case, the decoration makes the pride of the owner as well as the magic of the place. “Some of my clients have already put aside some items like this very nice Dalida frame,” Funny Jean-Louis Abbadie. And he is a bit melancholic: “I will lose the little train. I will wipe the crumbs from the day before, I smoke my cigar …”
