Venues that are wider than they are long (deep?)

100 club for starters

Thread inspired by this comment about O2 Academy, Bristol

Ulster Sports Club - Belfast

The Academy - Dublin

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Leadmill (main room)
Maybe the Brudenell?

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Lafayette - new place in London

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Chode hall

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Much prefer a short wide venue to a long thin one

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3Arena in Dublin I think, which is why it’s better than most arenas

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QMU Glasgow

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I bet you do you dirty old bollocks

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Leeds arena is probably close, and also a good arena. More like a big proper venue than a normal arena

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I said venue, not penis!

Rebellion in Manchester (not counting the bar area)

My mistake!

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Barden’s Boudoir was like this, if anyone else remembers it? (It was under a defunct furniture shop in Dalston back in the early 00’s).

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Remember it well. It opened the day after I moved out of Stoke Newington :person_facepalming:

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only been to one gig there but hated the layout, felt extra hard to navigate through

or maybe Kurt Vile fans were just extra burly

King Tut’s, I think.

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Plymouth Pavilions (not the ice rink or swimming pool)

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^ was my first thought

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Definitely feels like it

Also only in Glasgow have I seen the crowd form an orderly queue. Maybe it’s the type of shows I’ve been to but so considerate and lovely to not just stand at the bar being overlooked for the entire gap between bands.