Saturday, October 25, 2008

London show successful, afterparty shambolic


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Reports on last night's Mogwai show in London are, understandably, very favourable.

The 'Mogwai Presents A Party Under The Arches' afterparty appears to have been a shambles, however - either massively oversold (in which case refunds are due?) or just plain incompetence.

From nme.com:

Asked as to why fans had to queue for so long to enter the aftershow party, Dominic Aitchison added: "That's pretty bad. We're sorry about that. It's not been very well organised, but the band really didn't have much involvement besides helping putting on the DJs."

3 comments:

Unknown said...

the gig was quality, but the club was awful. after seeing the enormous queue at midnight, i went for a drink somewhere else and came back at 1 to see it was the same size and someone who was halfway down the line said they'd been there for 30-40 minutes, so i just sacked it off. i'm sceptical, but have you heard about them issuing refunds?

Rob said...

I've heard nothing yet about refunds.

Anonymous said...

I was on the guestlist for the aftershow event and still had problems entering as none of the security guys I asked seemed to know where the guestlist queue was. I feel that the main problems with the event were due to poor management of the crowds and a failure to separate guests, ticket holders and people who wanted to pay on the door. This is the venue's responsibility surely not the promoter's?