Last event attended: Lady Gaga night 2
I have been to a few events at the Grand Garden; more Ultimate Fighting Championship than anything else, but it's all the same in the end. It's a small arena with terrible acoustics and specifically old, wretched ushers that seem to hate the type of events that I go to and definitely show it when they interact with event-goers.
Events I attended here:
- UFC® 66
- UFC® 91
- UFC® 92
- UFC® 98
- Dave Matthews Band/The Fray
- The Police/Fiction Plane
- iHeartRadio Festival 2011 & 2012
- Lady Gaga: Born This Way Ball night one & two
The concession food is terrible. Exorbitant prices for crap food, of course; if you think Staples Centre food is bad, don't expect much here.
Storytime ...
There is this especially deadpan, never-looking-interested-or-remotely-happy usher that works the FLOOR; she is a middle-aged Asian and if you go to many MGM events you will see who I mean. I thought she was going to strangle this little Japanese kid during Lady Gaga's set because he happened to be enjoying some of the thousand balloons that rained down from the rafters. Maybe she just particularly dislikes Lady Gaga or someone earlier was rude to her, but as far as I have seen the attitude is not exclusive to this usher. A lot of ushers sorta seem displeased with ushering. So back to the angry Asian usher, she was blocking the aisle way on the floor to ensure people did not move up during Gaga's set, which is conventional at overly uptight venues, but the problem was that some people were trying to leave early and she blocking their way out. And some people were also trying to get back to their seats after going to the restrooms or wherever else they were. - E