O2 Academy Brixton London reviews by real event-goers
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Review of Beat Horizon
I was wondering how Brixton Academy was going to manage four separate stages, and as soon as I walked in, I realised the night was going to be a shambles because the venue simply does NOT have anything other than one room. Essentially two corridors had been used for two smaller 'rooms' causing the DJs to play their sets at deafening and distorted levels in order to block out the noise from other areas. The worst thing was that some of the artists I was most excited to see (Jeru the Damaja of Gang Starr, Rodney P, Mala) were given the entrance foyer as a stage (what a joke) and were performing between the two main arena doors which meant that as soon as more than 40 or so people were attending that stage, it caused a huge bottleneck blocking people getting into and out of the main arena and ended in creating an angry atmosphere of people pushing and shoving. The next HUGE disappointment was the main stage, we turned up just as the warm up DJ was on before The Pharcyde's show. She was definitely playing some absolute bangers yet the sound quality was muffled and distorted to the point you could barely make out one track from the next. We moved around the arena, from being at the front, sides, very back and even upstairs in the balcony and the sound was still awful. It totally ruined the Pharcyde's set, I had been so excited to see them (a first for me) and could have cried at my disappointment :(
I even tried getting a message to the sound desk that something was really wrong with the sound, but nothing changed.. Huge huge disappointment, I even left before seeing two of my favourite DJs, Roni Size and Goldie as I couldn't bear to have their sets ruined by the awful sound quality. A massive disappointment on so many levels. The event organisers clearly made massive amounts of cash from this, I'd love to see their response to the feedback.
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Review of Beat Horizon
The lineup kept changing. Damaja was meant to be a 10.30pm act, he was three hours early!
It felt like all of the rappers were doing half-song while the DJ played, rather than actually doing their full act. I don’t know what Pharoe Moche was doing at all - was anything he was saying actually his music?
I really couldn’t wait for Goldie and Roni Size and neither of them played their own music - you could have got any old act to DJ like they did.
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Review of Beat Horizon
The event runners at beat horizon should be ashamed. Charging half price tickets the day before the event, messing up on securing all the acts and managing the event itself was awful (nothing to do with the venue and it’s staff) purely the event runners.
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