but if you are in a crowd you'll be fine.

And it's a really amazing venue. It's an old dance hall and still has these silver stars on the ceiling. The stage is at a good height and the sound is great. It's a renowned venue.

the pints taste like shite inside. The venue is so outdated it is class but the springy floor is great for a loud band. It is at the danger end of Arglye St but walking back into the proper centre for a gig is only 10 minutes and everyone else will be walk that way too. It is a bit dodgy but the number of people leaving kinda ruins there being any real chance of any problems.

I liked it a lot until I went back recently and realise it is pretty shit inside. Though I have yet to go to a bad gig there.

its not dangerous at night. its a bit rough tho. you'll be ok as long as you know where your going. the city centre is only about ten minutes walk.

The area itself isn't too pretty (just like the Barrowlands itself) but I've never seen any bother. Certainly I've never had any trouble going to all the gigs I've went to there.

More to the point has anybody actually received their MBV Glasgow tickets yet? I haven't...

>> Favorite Music Venue

Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, Scotland
It fits about 2,000 people, but it's completely square and the audience there is so amazing. The only thing I can compare it to, if you played a big festival or you played a huge arena rock show, and you're a band who's just getting to be that size, so the audience is still really down, and there's about 2,000 people in this square right in front of the stage losing their marbles, it's basically like the pit of a big show, and if you just got rid of everybody else, that's the Glasgow Barrowland. Literally, from the front to the back it's people totally paying attention. It's a suspended floor, so when people jump up and down it bounces, it gives, it's like a big roller rink. It's amazing, and Glasgow's the best place on the planet to play a rock show, period.

Just walk straight back to the city afterwards.. its actually only about 1 minute from the merchant city and a few minutes from one of my favourite pubs Mono..

For a pre gig beer I would suggest McChuils (or however the fuck you spell it) nearby but safe do not go anyplace next to the Barra's if you can avoid it.

In saying that there are even a few trendy places at the trongate now & some expensive flats nearby ..

Great place for a show... from the woman in the cloak room who cannae talk to the sea of plastic bottles across the floor at the end its something else...

terrible sound
terrible flooring
terrible organisation

Wahey for the barras!

And I have been to fucking wads of different venues over the years.
I have never seen any trouble there or outside.
Haven't been to the barrowlands in a while and I cannot wait to get back for a gig.

It's really not too dodgy at night when there's a gig on. Any further East is getting pretty rancid though.
That said, i certainly wouldn't be drinking in any of the pubs up there.

Still: the suspension-floor is awesome, the sound is usually pretty decent and the crowds tend to be really friendly and great fun.

I also don't get why "the pints are sho shite there" - it's Miller on tap which, whilst not exactly a home-brew, is palatable.

and it's massive and wicked.

There's also 3 St Johns Ambulancers with plastic buckets and a queue of vomiters, like like a vomitorium by t6he side of the stage.

It has a bouncing dancefloor.

The area is a shuh-huh-huh-uhhhhhhhhhhhHIT HOLE

I saw Explosions in the Sky there back in january and it was without a doubt one of the best gigs I've ever been to, so MBV really should excel.

I found its a really big venue but it still feels intimate and its pretty easy to get to the front; just be weary of more casual gig goers who may talk alot throughout (ike every venue in london ever)

The sound is good but the pints are shite. I suggest you stick the the cans of Miller than are usually on sale, they don't taste like a sweaty brown star like the stuff on tap...

It's pretty safe. There's so many people about before and after a gig that you can walk around there safely and not worry. You are only 5-10 minutes from Queen Street Station and only a few minutes from the Merchant City.

Don't be feared, you'll be absolutely fine.

One word of advice though: be prepared to have beer spilled all over you. The Barrowland seems to be littered with folk who like to throw cups of beer on the folk in front.