The lovely Liquid Limousine squirrelled me some tickets to their rebel rousing performance at Dirty South in Lewisham on Saturday night and it met with some mixed emotions.
The boys did good and even managed to pull off a tricky Beatles cover.Top tune of the night was "Shoot me Down" - I love that tune.
The mixed emotions come from a very below par venue which was pretty empty. First off charging £8 to get in! Admittedly I got in free but still if I'd paid boy would I have been annoyed. Next up two beers and one cider where off. Leaving you with the choice of Fosters and Budweiser. Note - Boy was not impressed.
Post bands - where I have to say Liquid Limousine stuck out like a sore thumb Mani arrives. In a flurry of sequin t shirt and dodgy looking sidekick he hit the decks. Playing I kid you not, not one tune post 1998. My god I thought he was just trying to be ironic but the joke just didn't stop. he played for probably an hour, with about 6 people on the dance floor at any one time. then flounced out.
Shame on you Dirty South! Brixton Jamm is an ace venue and I was thinking that being a sister venue you would have been not too bad.
Last off you are one of the few venues who also tries to rip bands off. I know someone who was approached recently to play at your venue and was told they needed to secure 50 people to play. there wasn't 50 people in there in total on Saturday night! I then found out that you made the bands who did play buy 30 tickets each up front. That is very naughty.
It's a big shame really as its not a bad venue in terms of size and probably has a lot of potential. Its also fairly local for me and I would love to have somewhere nearby I could go to.
Dirty South ain't it.
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