{"id":805,"date":"2004-05-08T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-08T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2010-06-03T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:30:21","slug":"805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/805\/","title":{"rendered":"Franz Ferdinand at the Elephant & Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Franz Ferdinand at the Elephant & Castle <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Franz<\/p>\n

Well, I liked the album and was well excited at the prospect of a freebie ticket for their gig at the Coronet, Elephant and Castle, London<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s some history about the venue:<\/p>\n

It was built in 1872 as The Theatre Royal, with the original building being destroyed by fire 1878.<\/p>\n

It was then rebuilt as The Elephant & Castle a year later and then converted to the ABC cinema in 1928. After a succession of renamings, it finally ended up being known as the ‘Coronet Cinema’.<\/p>\n

The cinema finally closed its doors in 1999, but a \u00a32million refurbishment programme saw it reopening as a multi purpose venue hosting club nights, live music events, film screenings and (yuk!) and corporate events.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to the gig. It has to be said that the Coronet isn’t much of a venue. The entrance is dark, dingy and uninviting, the bars woefully under-staffed and – unlike the Brixton Academy – the floor doesn’t slope towards the stage, meaning that many people couldn’t see a thing.<\/p>\n

Moreover, there seemed to be an awful lot of drunk, miserable blokes at the gig who seemed more interested in wolfing down the beers than enjoying the band.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I was a bit unimpressed. As you can see from the blurry picture above, the view was rubbish, the venue wasn’t very attractive and the beer selection was uninspired.<\/p>\n

Despite this, Franz Ferdinand<\/a> started brightly and I certainly enjoyed the first few songs, before a nagging doubt started to enter my head: haven’t I heard this all before?<\/p>\n

There’s no denying that the band have got some good tunes, but the charisma count was registering dangerously low and everything seemed a tad perfunctory: where was the excitement, the edge <\/em>, the sense of fun and the originality<\/em>?<\/p>\n

We left a tad disappointed, but happily Ken Livingstone’s rejuvenated bus service ensured that we could make it back to Brixton in time for a pint in the Albert, with a late night snifter in the Lounge following….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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