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| - I recently (last night) attended a concert at Bojangles' Coliseum, Tool to be exact (with 3Teeth and Primus). The show was great. Tool put on a rockin' show, so no complaints there. This review isn't about the show, but rather the venue. So, now that that's out of the way:
Let's start with the good:
The acoustics were surprisingly good. Any bigger and the reverberation would have been too much for a metal concert. The crowd control was also good. Ingress and egress went fairly smoothly, in spite of the fact that there seemed to be only one entrance/exit.
And that'll do it for the good. On to the bad:
The show was general admission. Really? Whose bright idea was it to have a gen admin show when most of the venue is comprised of seats? Getting in and finding a seat was a huge headache. The ushers kept "ushering" us to move along the walkway in a hasty manner, and didn't seem to care that it takes awhile to find open seats for a gen admin show.
SMOKING. While I'm tempted to wax poetic about the egregious behavior of smoking, especially inside a packed concert venue, I'll refrain, as this is a review of the coliseum, not the behavior of the attendees. So, to that end, the security was sorely lacking in the enforcement of the VERY CLEAR NO SMOKING POLICY INSIDE OR OUTSIDE THE VENUE. It really was disgusting...and I say that as a previous smoker. Yes, I realize this is a concert, but I've been to other venues of similar size where security worked very hard to squash such odious and selfish behavior.
Finally, I got a bad taste in my mouth when I left my seat near the end of the show to get a drink of water. When I walked up to one of the concession stands (one of the free standing ones), I noticed they were shutting down for the evening. This is fine and understandable. I proceeded to ask for a cup with water...a simple request, considering the stack of plastic cups sitting on the counter. Rather than obliging, the response I received from the attendant was something to the effect of "no, we can't take payment from anyone now since we're shutting down." So, I responded with, "What? A cup of water isn't free?" at which point she looked at me like I had two heads. All I wanted was a cup with water. Even just an empty cup would have been fine, as I could have filled it up at the water fountain.
Will I attend another show? I honestly don't know. I could deal with the gen admin thing, but the lack of NO SMOKING enforcement and sub-par customer service would definitely make me think twice next time.
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