The Digbeth Triangle Birmingham reviews by real event-goers

Waste of money.

Very disappointing, paid £35 for a ticket only to not be able to figure out who was on where and not get a drink anywhere. Queing for 40 mins to get to a bar, only to be told that they had run out of pretty much everything, that what was left was hugely overpriced and that they only accepted exact change. I would never go again.

Disappointing

Paid far too much to get in to then find out you dont get a list of times or signs to show you where to go so by the time we got into arena1 we had missed who we wanted to see. We shouldn't have to pay to get the times on a necklace when we have already forked out £20 for a bloody ticket.

Great night!!

I had an amazing time! Dunno what everyone is talking about but i had great fun! Drum and bass room was wicked! Only problem i found was the price of drinks, I expected them to be cheaper for a student night. And why is someone moaning that their drink was spiked and for people being on drugs, surely that is your fault for not keeping an eye on your drink. Don't blame the event for not having sniffer dogs you idiot! People are gonna be taking drugs at a rave, thats what keeps everyone going :P haha
One of the best raves i been to :D

Room for improvement....

Good points:
*Shots were £1.50! So I was happy but I hear alot of people wern't so happy.. To be fair a VK was like £3 which is a rip off. Took some vodka in with me anyway so that helped
*Music was good! Loved all the dubstep.
*Paramedic people really helpful.

Bad points:
*Foam party?
*Couldn't find silent disco but found some headphones!
*Security horrible and scary. Didn't know anything. Pushed you around. Boystrous.
*By fluke I didn't have problem with coach but friends did - and was easy enough to do as everyone was misdirected. Didn't ask anyone, just went to place was told at the start and found it but it was only by the chance that ours was in that place.

Would probably go again as would assume they would do better next time.

CRAP!

Absolute load of crap for how much they charge u for it!

No bhangra so extremely disappointed

Review

I think it had the potential to be fantastic, however I was disappointed. I thought it was pretty unorganised for such a huge event, particularly the travel arrangements, with changing the times on the day and coaches showing up very late, not even knowing where they were going. There was a good mix of music, yet I found that the advertising was wrong in many places: there was no drained lake, it was a pool; no foam party for safety reasons; I did not see Rokeyoke for example. It was these small details that seemed to get overlooked at the advertisments said they would be there: you know in advance so don't say it if it won't be around. I thought the food was good, though the drinks were a tad over priced. And it was ridiculous that every new place you went into, you had to throw away your drink from the last place, even if you'd only just bought it. I also thought that security on the rides could have been better. I was on the dodgems and some people went crazy, yanking us out of cars and running on in the middle of people's turns. Some of the lads were quite brutal shoving you out of the way and my friend seriously injured her neck and head because of it.

What a fucking good party !!!!!

it was my first party like that...and since im in UK (1 year...im french héhé) it was my best party !!!

For the music, good becuz several kinds of sound, so everybody could be satisfy. Pity that there wasn't faster sound like hardtech.

atmosphere, yes cool, friendly, I didnt see fight, just people with smile and who wanted to have fun....only pbm, guys who sold drugs....too much like in free parties in France, next time ask police to come wiv their dogs. its not dificult i think.

And for the prices, too expensive, water at £1.50 or 2, that was crazy

So yeah good party for me...cant wait for the next one,i will be there !!!!!

Poor - not worth the money

poor
some acts performed too early
bashy didnt even turn up
drinks were overpriced
the only good thing was the way skiddle got the tickets...rapidscan!

cock party

it was fukin s**t...y? because the coach neva even turned up wot bollocks i want a refund wher can i get 1??

Skiddle aren't the organisers!

Cherryhead - I'd like to just make it clear that skiddle had NOTHING to do with the organisation of the event coaches - we are a ticket outlet and not the event organisers!

We were informed at 5pm on Friday by the organisers that coach times had been changed, and worked late into Friday night to inform people of the changes by sending out email updates or ringing people if their coaches had been cancelled.

Understandably some people are annoyed about coaches - I'd advise you to contact GetOnIt (the organisers of Block Party) if you wish to complain directly

Cheers
Ben Skiddle

Rubbish

Cheap! Waste of time. Never booking with skiddle again. Only found out coach was cancelled when looked at website on sat morning. Very poor.Why couldnt they have booked another coach? A lazy unorganised company.

Bouncers were terrible

Overall the event was good value for money considering I paid the early bird price of £20, wouldn't have been worth more though. I expected cheaper drinks prices. Also the bouncers were extremely rude and unprofessional. My friend got kicked out completely unprovoked and I was threatened to be kicked out just for following up what was a a very unfair thing to do. Sort your security out. Were paying customers, not just students you can fleece and give poor service to.

I expected more....

Good music overall, had lots of fun but drinks were very expensive and some venues were filthy (mud and water on the floor). I also expected to be more crowded...definitely not worth 38 quid (35+3 for booking fees)

badly organised

was a decent night but no way worth the £35 i paid. and then i find out you could have got in for £20 on the door. what the heck?? although the security guards didn't seem to care and weren't helpful at all

wasn't impressed

i would recommend it because it was an amazing night but the coachs was the most horrible thing ever, they didn't pick everyone up and they kept changing the times last minute, it is almost like nobody talked to each other about the event, so event amazing, transport I would find your own way there

Blockparty

Fat nite shame I got skanked! I payd £75.50 for 2 tickets when u tossers were charging £20 on the door I don't get it n I'm not happy at all

Awful and ignorant

The worst event I have ever been to, I was asked to leave by a bouncer because I was kissing my boyfriend (and I myself am a boy) and I forked out 20 quid for it, have asked for refund and am writing an article about it. ABSOLUTE GARBAGE.

Don't believe the hype

Again, very disorganised. Bad attitudes from the security staff who were also very ignorant about the events. Overall I don't think the concept worked; far too big. And 10,000 students? Yeah right

Block

Very badly organised.

overhyped

overhyped and overpriced. not worth £20 plus rip off drinks. i got kicked out for literally no reason by an arrogant bouncer but managed to blag back in. and then my wallet was pick pocketed near the end of the night.only good part was the wombats and scott mills. not goin back again next year