i'm not sure what your thoughts on it were more than you not liking it, but it's seemed absolutely souless to me when i've been. it was still getting built the last time i went, and i like the calamitous nature of the portakabin bogs and the small passageway to them being crammed with smokers and excitable pissheads, but inside i just thought it was really awful. the acoustics are dreadful, the bars are pretty much a no-go area and overall i was just really really dissapointed, compared to Academy 2 it's an absolute shithole.

was awful so they must have done some pretty bad shit when they 'renovated' it. i have yet to grace the new done up building with my presence.

in that I ended up sitting next to the two nicest people I've ever met at a show. They'd come all the way from Coventry on a coach and it turned out we had almost identical taste in music so spent the best part of an hour talking. It's kinda heartening when something like that happens, especially when most gigs are spent surrounded by people who talk incessantly, wave their phones around or spill beer everywhere.

was brilliant, although due to cruddy railway disruptions the last train was cancelled and we had to leave at ten. Eluvium was magical though :).