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| - I have been to a LOT of concerts and a ton of venues across this country... that being said, I can honestly say The Axis has to be one of the worst venues I have ever been to in my entire life.
There are a lot of problems with this venue, but the biggest one for me was the staff. I paid a lot of money for my seat, but venue security was only concerned with protecting the "gold circle" area and did not care if anyone else moved around and sat wherever they pleased. Throughout the night I had a rotating cast of characters in the seats next to me, many of which were obnoxious beyond belief. When a few of us asked to have them moved since they weren't in their seats, staff just blew us off. In addition to this, staff took way too long to remove an overly intoxicated individual who was about to vomit on the people in front of him.
The highlight of my evening came when I was videotaping a song (mind you, there are NO signs stating "no video", it is not on the ticket, and it has not been announced whatsoever) and a male security guard comes over to me and makes me LEAVE the venue to scold me outside about videotaping. He berated me like a child, intimidated me and frankly scared me since I was outside by myself with him and no one else was around. I had my cell phone out because I was so scared. He yelled at me about videotaping and made me clear my memory card and said I was lucky to be going back in and "all eyes would be on me for the rest of the night". Never in my entire life have I been treated so horrendously by venue security, not to mention I missed 2 songs because of it.
Best way to end the evening? Being told I couldn't use the bathroom on the way out of the venue because "we're closed"... The second that show was over, they pushed people out and were literally closing doors with people still inside trying to leave after buying band merchandise.
I have never seen a venue so disrespectful of the patrons paying to be there. I witnessed a number of other atrocities that evening, but still cannot get over what should have been a simple "don't videotape" warning that turned into a security guard on a power trip taking out his impotence on me. Such a wretched experience that ruined my evening. I will never go to a concert at this venue again and will instead stick to the Hard Rock, Cosmo and Palms that have always provided a wonderful concert experience and have had nothing but respectful and responsible staff members working their events. The Axis should spend some time at those other venues and learn how to run a concert venue.
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