by Mark Wrack
Turned up to find one solitary security guy slowly frisking a very disgruntled, freezing, rain sodden outdoor queue until they eventually wised up & drafted in one extra after 15 mins of standing about shivering like shitting dogs. Bar staff were so excruciatingly slow rigamortice had set in, meaning an immovable wall of people five deep at both bars and an eternity just to push thru from one side of the venue floor to the other. Beer offer on tap was watered down rank flat p...ish but the half hour wait and 4.50 asked for one tin of Red Stripe left you feeling even more disillusioned with life. How do all those poor skint Uni students afford this? A whole bank of venue toilets were closed off/out of order leaving a desperate overcrowded scramble for the very limited choice of toxic urinals left on a rammed venue floor. All in all a VERY badly managed, soulless venue but thankfully, The Damned were just as fantastic as always and worth the whole entry fee alone. Probably a good job it didn’t ‘kick off’ like at previous Damned gigs too as I doubt the staff would have coped. The End.

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