I fucking hate it.
Health were great tonight (and made it all worth while!) but apart from that, when that place gets full its a right fucking pain in the arse.
Just had to vent the spleen.
I fucking hate it.
Health were great tonight (and made it all worth while!) but apart from that, when that place gets full its a right fucking pain in the arse.
Just had to vent the spleen.
stinks really bad
full of scenesters downstairs too. gets good bands though
Does it stink of scenesters?
(I dunno what that would smell like tbh)
im trying to think of something witty
give me a minute.
i remember going there the other week to see pissed jeans and being stared at by 90% of people in the pub as i waited for the doors to open. i sat in the corner and read my book on my own.
The Faversham in leeds is like that
everyone i talk to thinks the same
i always think i've got something on my face, that place is just full of scenesters that stare at EVERYONE who walks past.
i dont understand why they do it
surely if they thought they were too cool for you they wouldnt look at you?
that place cracked me up
I have only been once for nasty fest and there was alot of hipster fools with purfect hair and all that just staring everyone down and not gettin involved at all.
We used to play scenester bingo in the union
If someone came in wearing skinny jeans, a n obscure band tee and non converse hi-tops that was a fingers worth of drink. If a couple came in wearing said outfits; finish the drink. If a couple came in and you weren't instantly sure of who was the male; shots all round. It was a dangerous and silly game.
Honestly..
it really does seem to attract a special kind of prick.
Hmmmm interesting choice of words.
Anyway I always get agro in there for something when there's gigs on. Thankfully as i said, Health salvaged the night but even they looked pretty pissed off!
the people at the gig itself didnt seem too bad
fairly nice crowd really, but it was just when i was hanging about on my own beforehand which i didnt really like
There were some..
lovelies there tonight though! (Holly and Alex, most likely, you reading this?) ;D
Just everyone else in the crowd was annoying!
Anyway I'm a lover not a hater so I'll get over it!
i was just about to post something like this
i was there too, and yes, health were great, and yes, it was unspeakably packed. reminded me of my morning commute.
i don't think the crowd is that bad though. a lot of dickheads undoubtedly, but as my grandma used to say, everyone is someone's dickhead.
there was a very remarkable girl i kept catching the eye of tonight but had a miserable FAIL in terms of talking to. lucyjay, it wasn't you, was it?
I had a good night
someone kept pinching my arse
did you make it to the end
of the night with all your footwear where it should be?
jesus_son
I'm pretty sure it couldn't have been - I am definitely nowhere close to anything relating to remarkable! :) Sad but true!
I was the midget with a camera (who got into a row with some d**khead whilst i was shooting Comenechi) alas no signs of romance was in my night!
ah well
maybe there should be a londonpaper type board for this sort of thing...
"you were the dark haired girl in the blue dress who smoked a lot, i was the stuttering fool who almost said hello. we made eye contact and in my mind this pretty much constitutes a relationship and you will definitely read this ad and not be freaked out at all. get in touch..."
has anyone ever posted one of those/been posted about in one of those things?
It's a shithole, Luce, and no mistake.
When the bar staff knock over one of your fresh drinks and then go and serve someone else before ungraciously replacing it you know you're in hell...
health
Health were awesome. First time i'd ever heard of them.
At times they kept reminding me of the film akira; if anyone can remember the soundtrack lol. sorry to geek it up but yeah. Laserbeams and tribal drums is what i think about when i think of health.
Re:old blue last
A friend of mine and I pop in there every now and then in hopes of finding something really silly to laugh about. We saw this band i can't remeber the name of a while back, who consisted of a rotund girl with pink highlights and my little ponies as a necklace, a dude who was dressed up as a pharoah, and a trucker with a cardboard beard - they made nathan barley look tame with their spectacle.
Every time there's a vice issue night, all the very ostentatious scenester types descend. On most nights i've gone, its kind of a mixed crowd-ish; a higher number of brick lane indie kids though.
I was so confused one time i went and there were these cityboys booty shakin for their women.
One failed attempt
to see Tapes n Tapes back in Feb was enough. Never again. Awful shithole full of media whores, avoid.
i never thought i'd say this
but i'm glad i went to the luminaire (shudders) and saw health, considering the other options were the old blue last and white heat.
i got lost trying to find pure groove, but that's another story.
its true what you say about the obl, i really have to be in the mood to go in there and the issue launch parties are usually fucking packed and it seems that if you aren't wearing some sort of american apparel garment you get stared at.
it really is hard work.
why the (shudders) after luminaire?
Do you not like it as a venue?
no not really,
its just so lifeless and boring. they take the whole 'don't talk whilst the band is on' thing way too far.
That's my main reason for liking it
Oh well, different strokes and all that
don't get me wrong,
the sound in there is great, i just think it's not up to a venue to dictate as to whether someone can speak or not. if a person thinks a band is crap, they will say something about it. that's the end of it.
i think as a consequence the atmosphere in the luminaire suffers a great deal.
but yeah, can't please everyone!
"it's not up to a venue to dictate as to whether someone can speak or not"
oh yes it is:
http://flickr.com/photos/saschapohflepp/2528698223/in/photostream/
exactly,
its horrible to have stuff like that written everywhere.
no its not
its good.
yeah, but that's somewhat selfish...
you think a band is crap and decide to voice this opinion whilst they're playing. does it not occur to you that others in the crowd may not share your opinion of said band? you don't have the right to ruin it for everyone else just because YOU think a band sucks.
i don't mean go mental
and start shouting stuff at a band at the top of your voice. just a bit of a chat to a mate or something. plus its a relatively small venue, so the majority of attendees will know what sort of stuff they're going to see.
i just think if it's come to a venue writing shut the fuck up on their walls, it's bit depressing.
it's depressing that some people have so little respect for others
that a venue feels they have to write that nonsense on a wall.
especially as it doesn't provide
THAT much of a solution. instead you still have people talking as well as having crap like that written everywhere.
it's inevitable that a group of knobs will have a chat at gigs, even some will heckle. yet it's wrong to presume there is some sort of solution to stop this, because there isn't.
i know what you mean though.
theres a line
the odd word to a mate between songs ive got no problem with, but if you are talking at the top of your voice whilst bands play you are just a wanker really
do they?
when I saw HEALTH there people talked all through 'skeletons' set and no-one told them to shut up.
I only went upstairs once
to see Gay Against You and then we found out very quickly they weren't playing and got out.
I try to avoid the place
I've been to worse venues but I most definitely agree about the scenester twats you get downstairs. It can be a nightmare to get served at the bar if your face doesn't fit.
it's got such a horrid atmosphere
i'm not sure about the scenester element, but it's got that odd disjointed feel. people standing around looking to see what's happening, even though there's only other people standing around doing the same thing.
would never ever go to a gig there - i'd rather wait and see where else a band are playing. the free thing is so annoying though! can't there be a nice venue with free gigs? :(
i've still never been
is it REALLY that bad?
last night..
....was the first time I had had fun at OBL. And i've seen far worse looking crowds there. I have stupidly started a thread abotu this gig in the music section.
It is pain when its that full though. I would imagine its even worse if ur short/average height girl.
to be honest..
i don't mind the pub - when it isn't crazily packed its alright (occasionally if i'm about i'll pop in for a quiet drink on me todd and its fine), and i'm sure for smaller local gigs its wicked..(like the Concentration Face night we've got coming up...*nudge*!) just i think sometimes when they get a bigger band in - its a FUCKING NIGHTMARE!
..and it just so happened that last night there were a few people that were probably the rudest people i've met in my life.
im probably stating the obvious
but they just get bigger bands because - a) they can cuz they have the money to do it b) it creates a 'i was there, it was so packed, only 120 ppl max! omg!' thing - its a clever thing to do, but not the best gig going experience ever! but nothing is when u get beyond like 22/23 anyway - theres not many venues i couldnt have a grumble about probably!
i walked into old blue last once
three minutes later, i walked back out and i've never been back. this makes me happy.
having said all this...
....i have been kicked and punched, unprovoked, in OBL - once when playing and once when watching Rolo Tomassi.
NICE
Re last night
I turned up with my gf at 6.15 (queues, my arse...the place was fucking empty). By 9 it was so packed out we literally couldn't move and given that there seemed to be no prospect of Awesome Colour appearing any time soon we just bailed. That place is fucking unbearable when it's that busy.
it's fine when it's a gig you have to pay for
when it's a free gig it usually gets far too busy.
As a pub, it's fine but does get stupidly busy on Thursday and Friday. I don't really have a problem with the clientele.
Hipsters are fairly harmless
and I'd much rather be surrounded by people who read Vice and have a slightly inflated opinion of themselves than cunts looking to fight me because 'I look like a fag' or whatever. It was more the volume of people that made last night so bad, which is a shame because I was psyched to see Health.
I think that they should have
sold tickets for it, even if it was only £2 or something. that way when it had sold out loads of people wouldn't turn up and try and get in.
When LSF played for free my friends and I queued for hours outside and were quite near the front but found out that people had been coming in from the inside as well. we managed to talk our way in but it was absolutley rammed and I got drag out by a bouncer, thrown down the stairs and out of the door minus and shoe and I had no idea what I'd done.
I don't mind it as a pub though, they usually have a free jukebox and I don't care if people are starting at me.
good point really
i suppose they are a lesser of two evils. fall of troy the other day had about 4 idiots ruining (well not ruining but slightly spoiling the amount of fun i could have had) and hipsters are preferable to them really. i mean pushing people who are dancing over then not helping them up= cunt.
Exactly
I can't really talk anyway because I looked like a walking American Apparel advert last night.
It was mega packed last night
We went to see The Kills first, and surprisingly had no problem getting upstairs at the Old Blue Last at about 8.30
Has no-one mentioned the sound?
I left after about the second song Health played as I could hardly hear anything (I think the soundman just turned everything to maximum).
Yet the sound for Comanechi was great... it was just a shame I was stood next to The Most Annoying Couple In The World(tm). They had there fingers in their ears and shouted at eachother over the band at how the singer had "an aweful voice". I HATE YOU
Gigs being packed doesn't really bother me.