Whats The Village like as a venue?

comet

Have you been to a gig there, whats it like for a gig?

bombidol

seen Fu Manchu, Therapy? and Dropkick murphys there. I like it a lot. not huge but big enough for a good atmosphere

gar

Dermo

before I thought it wasn't that good, had **** beer, and the floor was the slippiest venue surface ever(maybe those two are connected)

but after seeing Dropkick Murphy's there I would definatly go back for a band like the

Kali

sound is pretty poor if you are any further back than the mixing desk, stage is way too small for the band to even move, it gets too hot.... etc. i wish they'd stop having decent gigs there.

Dermo

Originally posted by Kali
sound is pretty poor if you are any further back than the mixing desk, stage is way too small for the band to even move, it gets too hot.... etc. i wish they'd stop having decent gigs there.

it's harder for the band to move when there's 30 ppl on the stage with the band

honru

Originally posted by Kali
sound is pretty poor if you are any further back than the mixing desk, stage is way too small for the band to even move, it gets too hot.... etc. i wish they'd stop having decent gigs there.

Yeah, now that I see it that way I agree with you. The whole design of the place though is very nice.

Originally posted by Dermo
but after seeing Dropkick Murphy's there I would definatly go back for a band like the

They're playing in the Village again next March

bombidol

Originally posted by f®eak s©enery


Yeah, now that I see it that way I agree with you. The whole design of the place though is very nice.



They're playing in the Village again next March

they are indeed. their only irish show of the year. Theres a chance we might be supporting too, so theres another reason to go!

krattapopov

i saw the murphys there, thought it was a good venue, although the floor at the front was way to slippy!!

PunyHuman

I have to say I don't like The Village. The place just isn't wide enough, or something. I can't put my finger on it.

It suffers greatly - as Mono and the Mean Fiddler did before it - from the dumb situation of the toilets behind the stage, so you have to elbow your way through the crowd to get to them.

Also the drinks are diabolically expensive which I really can't stand.

In my view Vicar Street is by far the best Dublin venue, although it was better before they enlarged it.

polarbelly

must say imo its the best smallish dublin venue to play at. stage is a nice size and the onstage sound is excellent, a few dead spots though. we played there back in june and it was possibly the happiest i've been on stage thats why we're going back there next thurs... cough cough

Dermo

Originally posted by f®eak s©enery


Yeah, now that I see it that way I agree with you. The whole design of the place though is very nice.



They're playing in the Village again next March

I will DEFINATLY be there, and will drag along as many people as possible

Gyck

I've only been there once, and wasn't impressed. I saw the Jimmy Cake and the sound was awful.

drane2

Only been there once to see Jamie Lidell and I thought it was pretty good. But then again there wasn't too many people there. Next big gig there is Q-Bert in a couple of weeks....