The Carling Academy in Birmingham

Just some quick words about this place of Birmingham. The list of the concerts is not bad, but the place itself is really common, and the drinks are expensive (£3,15 for a Carling beer !). The size of the room is correct and the sound is good, well mixed.
Carling Academy, the well-known English beer, had opened the Academies not just in Birmingham, also in Newcastle, Bristol, Liverpool, Glasgow, Oxford ... that's why it seems so commun. It leads to see short lives because that place isn't exceptional (CSS plays just about 1h20, the Hives 1h30) so the bands don't really want to excel themselves.

Finally a very annoying detail concerning the Academy is that all the English people find funny to chuck out their glasses on the floor, and then to break it down jumping on. Sometimes they fling glasses on the scene. At the end of the Hives' live, the dancefloor was totally full of destroyed glasses. That explained the expensive cost of beers. From French people to the Carling Academy: please set up some bins to throw away the glasses.

Comments

[Nico]

En France tu trouves les mêmes façons débiles de se faire plaisir, par exemple au printemps de Bourges! Boires des bières ok mais pourquoi les balancer et les briser par terre comme un bouffon? à chaque fois que j'ai vu un cassos faire ça, j'avais envie de prendre une 6.9 pour l'éclater sur sa tête (sauf si le cassos est grand avec des gros bras)!