I'm not saying it's great, just wondering tis all =)

slightly overbearing security
horrendous drinks prices
really awfully laid out

and it looks nice, well the bar area does. Once the bands play ur fucked I saw Spinto Band there back in Febuary? And as much as I love them and their shows are usualy great fun the sound killed it for me, u could barley make out the lyrics and it just seemed to blur into one, the sound was better from the top balcony! WTF! who wants to watch a band 6 stories up?

This is when standing about 5m back from the stage.

I'm going next friday, and I'm getting paid to be there!

aside from the drink extortion. But most of the stuff I've been to there recently has been dance stuff like Roger Sanchez et al. and possibly have been too ,ahem, *happy* to really notice sound quality.

the sound is crap? it really isn't! ever considered you might just have been standing in the wrong place? on the floor and on the balcony directly in front of the stage the sound's pretty fucking awesome. Saw Explosions both there and at Astoria, middle of floor for both, and Koko shat all over Astoria for sound.

Yeah, the drinks are ridiculous, but it's Camden, what do you expect?

i like it there

but the sound for the Low - Don't Look Back gig was faultless.

she isn't as into music as me so it's nice to go somewhere that plays some music i like when we go out.

i wouldn't like to see a band there though. was disapointed when i saw interpols gig is going to be there.

Firstly was biffy clyro with oceansize. Second was TV on the radio. The problem for me, is the sound and the general crowd who go there.

Biffy negated both of those problems, travelled with their own sound tech and had crystal sound, and of course the biffy army turned up in full force. Oceansize were great cause they knew the sound would be shit, so just cranked it up several notches and blew my ears out. Fucking incredible.

Tv on the radio had really quite bad reaction from the crowd, who seemed so indifferent, apart from some people (like me) who danced and careered around like the smiling loons we were. Their sound was really bassy, and it took a lot off their performance, because they have such a varied type of delicate sounds. they were so energetic and tight that in the end, it really didn't matter. Incredible.

Other bands I've seen there have never managed to replicate either of these performances.

It’s the sounds that’s really crap. I remember seeing The Shins from the back of the ground floor, and it was a shit experience. But then again, I saw a few bands from the mezzanine/first floor and it wasn’t as bad.

I’ll probably try to get to the front to see Interpol, and hopefully won’t get annoyed with the crowd.

low and camera obscura (sound was good for both)

mind you, both times I've managed to get a spot right by the balcony.

It's decorated like Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen's worst acid nightmares though.

that ridiculous hole in the celling.

The only things that really make KOKO good are:

Really, Really Good bands play there.

Its one of the those "lets play a small show in london - lets do it at koko"

Interpol is just another to add to the list of big bands playing the tiny place... recently its seen Bright Eyes, Jarvis' "first" solo gig, Broken Social Scene.......

umm but yeah. Otherwise its a joke

if i didnt live near by, i'd say that the scala would be a much better choice for these gigs (except the bouncers there are actually cunts, and its a bit smaller)

but it's also bloody beautiful!

and have crap visibility, or you stand on one of the 20 million balconies and have bass-less sound

drinks are unaffordable and entry is generally too expensive

friday gigs end early for club nme, which features a screen with txt msgs projected onto it