• Added: 19th of April 2008
• Area: Hackney
• Category: Nightlife

London N16 7XJ
020 7249 9557

manc_ill_kid said
Crap venue for bands
Barden's Boudoir is a fucking shit venue. I've been there a couple of times, I've been to other gigs in my life, I know a shit venue.

The sound is atrocious, its unforgivable. There have been many great bands playing there, I've seen them before, I've heard them before, but at Barden's they sound shit. I've seen shows there with different sound engineers and they all sound crap.

Maybe the place is cursed and bands, who are usually great, they play there and their instruments go out of tune, they lose their voices and forget the words, its not the bands fault, they just need to avoid the venue like the plague it is.

The crowd, the audience, at Barden's, are scum. I don't mean they could do with a wash, should get jobs and stop swearing at buses, I mean purely in the context of audiences at gigs. They only stick around for the one band they want to see in a night, they talk loudly through all the bands that play. They drown out the music and not with amusing banter or heckles, just banal meaningless rhubarb.

Go there, look around when a band is playing. What do you reckon, 70%, 80% of the crowd don't give a shit? Last night there were three girls stood on a table presumably to get a better view of the stage, but not actually facing the stage, facing each other and their conversation. Sure the guy on the door gets his money, but what's the point of booking bands at all?

I like to think I'm not some small-minded, prejudiced bigot. But sometimes I have my doubts and need to reassure myself.

So maybe I've just caught bad nights at Barden's, its just fate and coincidence that the bands, the venue and the crowd don't gel.

One way to prove it would be if someone said "Hey come to this gigs, the bands sound great and the audience are fabulous, maybe even the beer will be worth what you pay for"

But if whoever says that is wrong and the gig is crap, I will respond to every single bit of gig spam they ever leave online. Is it worth it?