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This thread is an opportunity to describe some of those *interesting* venues you've visited over the years. You people love listing stuff you've done.

This rejection is doing nothing for my self-esteem.

deaf institute is nice though
saw spiritualized in a church in nottingham, belting.
radiohead in milan was pretty good, it was built in 1807 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_Civica

If it was really full people had to watch the band on a TV from a little cave with seating.

half of the building is no more due to a bomb hitting it in the war. The venue resembles a grotty youth club but the bar area is quite bizarre. I really love it there.

Club 85 in Hitchin is a bit quirky. It's decked out like a psychedelic mecca, although I think they're trying to take some of that away now.

A nice old ballroom with red velvet walls is all well and good until you fill it with people and then it becomes an inferno (no flames).

at a converted church in Islington back in 2000, can't remember the name of the place but it was an amazing venue and it was one of the best gigs I've ever been to. First half was stuff from Von & Agaetis Byrjun, second half they unveiled what would later become ().

in Manchester. I'm not a fan, but the stage is a circle in the middle of the room so you can stand anywhere around it, and could pretty much walk on if you want. It does mean that the side the band faces is ridiculously cramped. Unless your Blakfish who turned their backs to the majority for half the set and played to about 3 people

Saw Tindersticks there last month - beautifully preserved Bauhaus-era theatre with great acoustics. Cheap beer/wine, friendly staff, and free cloakroom. A thoroughly civilised night out all round.

I also used to like the old Aeronef in Lille, which was a very old converted theatre in some back street somewhere, you had to walk down a garden to get to it. Saw many bands there who were selling out way bigger venues in the UK - Oasis, Charlatans, MBV, Sundays.

Also The Good The Bad & The Queen in the tatty ballroom on Southsea Pier was a good one.

Wilson's Music Hall in Wapping, a proper old Victorian music hall is cool, not sure it really does gigs though...

went to the CUT in Halesworth last year to see Trembling Bells. lovely little community theatre in an abandoned factory

Nottingham has an ex-fruit and veg warehouse, a room above Clinton Cards, an art gallery and the usual array of sketchy pubs.

Leeds has the Brudenell, of course. Left side: amazing bands. Right side: men with moustaches drinking Guinness.

isn't far from me, its in a village hall that looks like a corigated iron shed in a small village called Farndale: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2009/8/27/1251391874362/The-Band-Room-in-Yorkshir-002.jpg its well ncie around there.

There's another place called The Shed which moves around now but use to be in a shed haha. Its in village halls around the area now. I've seen loads of Seb Rochford projects there, Acoustic Ladyland, Polar Bear, Fulborn Teversham... I just went to a jazz bingo night there too where they do improv over the game to put everyone off. Oh yeah Stewart Lee is playing again later in the year too. They got Seb Rochford to play in a van and tour about the place, have had people in skips on the moors and the other weekend a guy was doing improv in a river. http://www.theshed.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/alan_tomlinson_river_seven.jpg / Seb in my town in a van: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mzFnEtUMVcY/TJ8oCZ26KqI/AAAAAAAABaY/XKDbFSW5opE/s1600/Seb+Rochford+in+a+van+003.jpg haha

Is anyone going to the Patterns gig at John Rylands Library tomorrow? Promises to be quite a treat, it's the most beautiful building in Manchester for my money but none of my mates want to go :(((( might go on my own