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This venue primarily caters towards the teen-21 year old crowd as many of their concerts are often General Admission/Standing Room Only. My fiancée and I went to a concert there back in 2014 of White Lies/The 1975/The Naked & Famous. We were really only there to see White Lies and The Naked & Famous.
Seeing one of my favorite bands (White Lies) perform first was a great thrill. They performed about 7 or 8 songs and then left the stage as the crew prepped for The 1975. During our time on the floor, it was very crowded and not very comfortable. A lot of people brought in backpacks with them and some people just kept swinging them all over the place bumping into us. Also, and I guess you have to expect this at standing room only venues, we were constantly having to deal with people pushing through the audience to get to the very front of the stage.
I really think they could do better with security control with allowing people to only be so close to the stage and I really think they should make it mandatory for all bags/backpacks to be checked or install lockers for safekeeping.
After White Lies we decided to have some food in the lounge. I got to try their "famous" Blue Bell fried chicken. This was extremely hot, which was good, but also made it incredibly difficult to eat right away. I probably asked for extra napkins from a server three times until they finally showed up, and the chicken was still scorching hot to bite into. I won't say that it was the best chicken ever, but it's not the worst either.
After a while, my fiancée and I decided it wasn't worth it to stick around waiting for The 1975 to finish up and to go back down to the floor and see The Naked & Famous perform. Considering how huge the band's popularity is to the 21 and under crowd, we knew it'd be another nightmare waiting to happen when it came to the audience we'd end up being a part of.
I know a lot of famous musicians have performed at the Brooklyn Bowl over the last two years (Beck, Elvis Costello to name a few) but the problem is the fact that these events are open to people under 21 which means that there'll be tweens with backpacks and selfie sticks a-plenty.
Maybe I'm just a purist when it comes to concerts, but I just hate it when you're trying to enjoy the performances and your view is spoiled by over 200 people holding their arms up with their phones/selfie-sticks.
I haven't been back to Brooklyn Bowl since this concert, but honestly, it feels like I really don't need to attempt to give it a second chance.
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