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Reviews of The National Bowl in Milton Keynes
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Review of Chase and Status Live - Milton Keynes Bowl
Amazing day and night. Loved every minute, the bowl is such an amazing venue for live music and chase and status put on a fab show. The only downside was last entry at 4pm which meant some of out original crew couldn't make it. Other shows there had a later last admission time.
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Would you recommended: Yes |
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Review of Chase and Status Live - Milton Keynes Bowl
Paid £100 to then have to que for over 2 hours before even getting to security . There were numerous routes into the venue which all merged into one que meaning that some people got in quicker than others and because of this we missed some of the artists. No where near enough security and ticket checks for the huge amounts of people that attended. Once inside the bars were rammed and some had run out of alcohol a couple hours in. The only saving grace was the music and atmosphere but was severely let down by the lack of organisation and ridiculous wait times.
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Would you recommended: No |
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Review of Chase and Status Live - Milton Keynes Bowl
Was great when c&s eventually came on but queue to get in was to long and needed speakers for artists that we missed due to queueing. The fact that there no phone signal on any network at all left individuals unable to contact friends if lost. Met nice people who were alone due to toilets and bar visits and couldn't reach their pals. This is dangerous and needs to be addressed! People are left vulnerable. Also paid for a day of D&B and the intervals between acts were to long and genre was not as expected. I wanted bass face got 6 hrs of techno weird euro rubbish with spattering of hardcore (don't mind hard core) but not what I paid for.... D&B is my jam and it was off piste, got it wrong guys, made it a money machine, don't forget your roots!
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Would you recommended: No |
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Review of Chase and Status Live - Milton Keynes Bowl
Over 2.5 hours wait queuing to get into the venue, absolutely no security anywhere around and people pushing in or just walking past straight to the front. No water, no health and safety in the sun, absolutely abysmal. I have been to over 100 concerts/shows/festivals and never in my whole life have I ever had to deal with queuing like that for any type of venue, it was extremely unsafe. Once inside it was no better and there was such open drug use, I saw over 10 people in multiple small groups openly doing keys of c*****e and even more openly doing p***s. The lack of security everywhere was so bad, even multiple people smoking w**d which is clearly very easy to stop as you can smell it, but no one was doing anything. Once inside the prices were some of the worst I have ever seen from inside a venue, a bottle of wine was £29 and a c**ktail can (250ml) was £9. The only thing that made this worth while was Chase and Status set themselves, with the live drummer and the live singers (including Stormzy), but other than that I am completely appalled. It was massively oversold and should not have had that many people in such a small space, you could barely move. Security also may as well not have been there.
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Would you recommended: No |
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Review of Chase and Status Live - Milton Keynes Bowl
2 hour queue to get in was ridiculous. Security were so slow. Would have expected much better organisation from such an established venue. Saying that, Chase and Status were worth the wait!!
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Would you recommended: Yes |
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Review of Chase and Status Live - Milton Keynes Bowl
Chase and Status were incredible. The bowl was not - I have never known such a horrendous queue to get into the place. It took over 2.5 hours and we were there over an hour before last entry. This big delayed meant we missed 2 other acts we were so excited to see. Would definitely recommend chase status but this experience has put me off going to the bowl ever again
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Would you recommended: No |
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