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LEAST FAVOURITE VENUE

Whats everybody's least favourite gig venue, and why ??

Mine was the Ocean in Hackney because it becomes an sea of bottles of half drunk alchopops afterwords.

The resutl Sticky (ruined) shoes and twice triping up and smashing several bottles into my arm each time.

I would have complained, but the fall may also have something to do with drinking half a sea of alchopops bottles...


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    My A Hole
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      which bands have played there?
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        only CRAP ones, geddit?

        hahahahahahaha!!
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          *chortle*
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          The $hit play their everyday!!
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    The Brixton Academy should be a decent venue....a good size to see big bands with the sloping floor so that everyone has a view. It's just a shame that the sound is so fucking terrible....you may as well be underwater it's that bad.
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    the london ass-toria gets my vote.
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      I quite liked the Mean Fiddler but that raised dancefloor bit in the middle is stoo-pid.
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      Seconded. It is almost always almost unlistenably shite
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    Bierkeller in Manchester. I've only been once but

    -Sound too quiet and muddy
    -Too Packed
    -Have to be in the first two rows to see the band
    -Beer taps kept conking out
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      The ICA.

      They are cunts

      I have turned down free gigs simply cause I never want to set foot in that place EVER again.
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        Aww cmon Bierkeller alright!

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      i agree with the beer keller, saw silver mount zion i nther, sound was shite, cudnt see unless i stood on this chair, and the bar took like 20 mins to get served at cos there was like one woman on the bar servin everybody! so shit
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    I'm not a big fan of the Mean Fiddler. Stupid annoying raised dancefloor bit, and the seats are too tall and have nowhere to put your feet, and I dunno, I just don't like it.
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    Any arena. Stadiums are worse. 100,000 person festivals I haven't been to in years. I would have loved to go to Coachella cos I like most of the bands, but no thanks.
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      Glasgow Garage. Overzealous security sometimes, plug pulled on bands no later than 10pm to fill the place with underage drinkers.
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        The Reebok at Bolton.

        The queues were huge and they had about 100 hot dogs for the whole crowd. You also have to walk at least a mile from anywhere to get into the dump.
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          Leeds Cockpit

          These bouncers threw my friend out, even though he was in one of the bands. Then they ID'd everyone in my group of friends, and stamped everyone's hand if they were over eighteen so they could get served at the bar. Being eighteen at the time, I obviously bought the drinks for my seventeen year old friends, and then got kicked out with them when we were all ID'd for the second time.

          A crap night all around.
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            cockpit is shite. i stopped going there a while ago. bassment's where it's at, although the bouncers are fairly bad in there too.
            actually, godzilla on saturday 27th august is the place to be, upstairs in the fenton. no bouncers, live bands and djs til late.
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    Edinburgh Corn Exchange, acoustically the worst venue I've ever been in.

    The celing is lowered at the sides but not the middle of the hall, leaving a 3D inverted T shape for the sound to swirl around in. Awful.
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      Glasgow Garage = Crap!

      Worst venue in the city for bands IMHO. I am amazed some bands still want to play there...or maybe they just don't have a choice!...

      Oh well.
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        Koko - overpriced bar, looks like it should be in Essex.

        And whats wrong with the ICA? I like that venue.
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          Have never EVER enjoyed it there.

          All down to the bouncers being idiots,

          Pushing women around, not being allowed into the room despite the fact that all I want to do is pick up my amp and leave.

          Various things that piss me off that I won't go into.

          It's not so much the venue as the staff so I guess this might in slightly the wrong thread.

          I'm still never going back though
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        i third the glasgow garage being awful.
        the barrier at the front is too low, so you have to bend over to lean on it, which makes my back ache.
        also, the 10pm curfew is the stupidest thing ever.
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          Colchester Soundhouse. It's impossible to feel anything even vaguely related to enthusiasm within a 3-mile radius.

          And Southampton Joiners.
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            Liverpool Academy 2. Its got a half-decent sound system but the place is just a dump. It reminds me of a church hall.
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              I think the Garage in Glasgow is pretty poor too, but not my least favourite. The Cathouse gets my ultimate vote though. It's not bad for a club, but for gigs it's terrible- the last I went to, they kept everyone waiting outside over an hour after the gig was due to begin. They were rude to everyone who so much as politely asked about it. I've never been there and been let in on time, and several times, they've put bands on as the doors opened: therefore, the band's left playing to an almost empty room as everyone's still being searched and id'd on the way up.
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                Earls Court
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                  LIverpool Academy 2 - I think it used to be called Lomax 2 - yes it is awful

                  in London the worst venue for sound is the Buffalo Bar as they have a sound restriction and the rudest promotors are Plum Promotions - am sure they have their reasons though

                  and the very very very worst venue - INFINITY - but oh, what's this? yes I forgot. Its not there anymore is it? HA HA!

                  and dont forget BARDENS for being the ACE-EST venue - I say that as I live opposite
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    Bristol Academy.
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      Shepherd's Minge downstairs. You need to be 9 foot tall to see anything.
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        APU Academy in Cambridge

        Should be good, looks good, price is good (for cambridge).......

        SOUND IS SHIT

        I spoke to the guitarist from Kids Near Water after they played and they said "the venue's good, your sound system sucks though". I had to wear earplugs everytime i went there to see a band cos they used to turn the volume up so loud. Plus, they open the doors at 9. Bunch of wankers (the promoters, at my old uni not the bands).