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Review of 'The Bath' Morecambe

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Posted By : ~ THE SUG4R BULLETS ~ | Comments : 6

Great venue, shame its in a ghost town.


Decided to make a weekend of it. Travelled up Sat morning, found the venue & our B&B easy enough (ideal as on same street).

Had a walk round Morecambe, nothing spectacular to look at if I'm honest - the place was dead, a lot of B&B's closed down on the bay front and deserted amusement arcades. A once thriving popular coastal resort turned ghost town, shame really. Had some fun in one open arcade though, doing 'Anarchy in the UK' on Guitar Hero...oh how I got the piss taken outa me.

The Bath itself is located just off the main sea front road and about 20 mins drive from the M6. A good decent sized boozer with a raised stage area for bands & plenty of room to set gear up. Very easy parking & loading through front door. Decent acoustics all round. Los (Lorraine) the landlady is a really nice woman, let me drop my drums off when we arrived Sat morn & picked 'em up Sun morn before we left, all safe & sound.

The gig itself went well. For me personally it was always going to be hard living up to the previous week's awesome gig at the Griffin but I think we went down OK, with a few people saying it was good to hear some Punk tunes as opposed to the usual thrashy rock. Not the busiest place ever but a relative & appreciative audience...apart from one bellend who took our rendition of 'White Riot' too far resulting in a stern reminder that The Sugar Bullets DO NOT welcome such ideology and got told to FUCK OFF!! That and a small scuffle didn't overshadow the gig though and rest of folk we're more than supportive, making a few new biker friends that'll be seeing us play at the Farmyard Rally this weekend.

All in all a decent gig & we look forward to returning to The Bath later in the year.



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# Posted by Roj (Black Rose) - 13/06/2011, 17:39 (GMT)

We were in Blackpool on Friday night, that was dead as well.


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# Posted by The Kasuals Solid Sixties Musi... - 13/06/2011, 17:46 (GMT)

For a time in Morcambe they decided not to bury the dead but instead, stand them up in bus shelters and shop windows to make the town look like it was busy.............

Blackpool is going the same way, they local council need to invest big and get the place smartened up, lived off there glory years for far too long, about 60 years to long!

:)


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# Posted by HAPPY DAIZE - 13/06/2011, 18:20 (GMT)

Tn be fair, Blackpool is trying to re-invent itself - you only have to look at the current spate of building and investment going on in the town to see that; unfortunately, you can't make an omelette without cracking a few eggs.

Rob (now with Night Train)


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# Posted by The Wes Paul Band - 13/06/2011, 21:54 (GMT)

We played a gig up in Hull where they put the dead people in the audience.


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# Posted by The Kasuals Solid Sixties Musi... - 13/06/2011, 23:41 (GMT)

Quality................:-)


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# Posted by the stories - 14/06/2011, 00:49 (GMT)

A really good honest review ...ive a soft spot for the old victorian seaside town of morecambe ,played the bath at scooter rallies before but not on a regular gig .. mmmm blackpool is a odd one at the moment & to be honest it has been for a while ...not going into great detail .


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