Bad Concert Experience

So I went to the Boys Like Girls concert in town last night. It was at The Venue, which use to be a cool place to see concerts. My wife was kind of sick, so she didn’t feel like dealing with the crowd on the floor, so we went up to the balcony. We have been up on the balcony in the past and you can get a pretty good view up there. Well, no more. They use to have just a little VIP section up on the balcony with nice plush booths for people to sit in. I have no problem if people want to pay extra to sit there, but now basically the whole front section of the balcony is VIP. Pretty much every place where you can see the stage is VIP now. So we were stuck behind the people that were in the plush booths standing up so we couldn’t see, while the whole side section of that balcony that doesn’t have the plush booth and didn’t use to be VIP sat pretty much empty. So we were standing where we couldn’t see shit staring at a spot in the balcony where 20 or 30 people could stand and actually see.

The whole place is a mess now. When we were entering the place they only had one door open. The one where you had to cut through the line of people buying tickets just to enter the place.

Leaving the place was also a mess. There were cops all over the place making sure the kids didn’t do anything wrong, but yet people parked all over hell and were blocking all but one was out of the parking lot.

The Venue use to be my favorite place in town to see a concert, but now I don’t think I would go back. The new management really fucked the place up.