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Which concert venue in Ireland is your favourite?

  • 22-02-2003 3:30am
    #1
    Unknown
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    Which concert venue in Ireland is your favourite, and also your least favourite.
    Just wanted to get a idea of general preference among concert goers.


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  • #2
    Mr. Fancypants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭Mr. Fancypants


    Would have to be Vicar St for me, or the Red Box when it isnt over packed. Vicar St is one of the few high profile venues in Dublin that was actually designed to be a concert venue.

    I hate the Olympia for a number of reasons ranging from the ridiculous amount of leg space you have in the seats to the truly horrific mens toilet (a pig trough would be an accurate description)


  • #3
    ThenComesDudley
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    I likes the Vicar st also i likes the Ambassador
    and the redbox, ithink there all good

    but i really hate the rds


  • #4
    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    again.. Vicar. St, brilliant layout, theres no bars in the venue (Ambassador.. grr), good sound... Whelans is great as well for more intimate gigs I think, pity the sounds terrible for louder bands.


  • #5
    Mr. Fancypants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭Mr. Fancypants


    theres no bars in the venue (Ambassador.. grr),

    That bar in the Ambassador has to be one of the silliest design decisions i have ever seen. When i went to see Ani Difranco there she was in the middle of an emotianal, heartfelt and quiet song about September 11th yet all i could hear was the sound of a cash till opening and closing. Grrrrrr.
    They made a mess of a job in the Ambassador, could of been an excellent venue.


  • #6
    Unknown
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    Originally posted by Kali
    Whelans is great as well for more intimate gigs I think, pity the sounds terrible for louder bands.

    Yeah, I totally agree with you there. When I went to the solo and acoustic J Mascis in Whelans last November, I was absolutely blown away at the intimate offering.
    However, in examples when I went to Cave-In, who played last week, the sound overkilled the amps and was very blurry. It killed my ears, and it wasn't a great concert.


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  • #7
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Vicar Street is fantastic, but there's rarely any gigs I'd go to see there. The Shelter, a sublet of Vicar Street, is quite brilliant. Pity it isn't being used any more...

    I'm going to see Tha Haunted in Whelan's tomorrow. So I'll make up my own mind about that. Can't wait to see Opeth there, but the sound was fantastic when they played in the Shelter in '01.


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