It sounds like last call at a dive bar.

It's difficult to capture that ethos without resorting to tropes: characters cutting loose to jazz in a dive bar or, my bête noire, standing on furniture to declaim poetry.

The reception was held in a dive bar.

The cheeky skits are hilarious and take place in proper dive bars.

I had been treading the same waters in town for years, playing tiny shows in dive bars and small venues.