Sometimes, I've come to realise, a particular venue counts as much towards the success of a gig as the music that's played there on the night.
Sometimes, I've come to realise, a particular venue counts as much towards the success of a gig as the music that's played there on the night.
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For example, take one band (Lau) I saw twice this year in different spaces (City Halls in Glasgow and the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh).
In some ways, the buildings have strong similarities, notably those upper galleries that line three of the four walls. In the shoebox-structured City Halls, the classical baggage that comes with the venue suited the fact that the second half of the folk trio's Celtic Connections concert in early February was performed alongside the Northern Sinfonia.
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