Middlesbrough Town Hall

Lovely old building, brilliant for live music 🎸🎤

Disorganised especially at the bar. Tonight you had well over 500 people in and only one bar with few staff. The queue went out the venue front entrance and people were going to Turtle Bay for drinks. Why did you not open the upstairs bar during the interval? The seating was so crammed I had to sit sideways definitely not a comfortable venue to watch a show.

I went for a "talk" by Professor Alice Roberts. About the slide of the Roman Empire and stretch of Catholicism. It was a snapshot, or series of snapshots, backed up by archaeological evidence. Very interesting, surprising how fast and how much Christianity had plugged into the systems of power, usually for their own ends, hints of massive collusion and pragmatic overtaking of Roman authority when Rome called back its legions. The Town Hall is a great place for this type of event, although it was a bit like a sauna on this particular night. It has a light and airy feeling about it, seating and bars seemingly on every level, I'm very surprised they do not open the place up for somewhere to go for a drink, spacious and quiet with some great drinks on sale. The council are missing a great chance of earning some much needed money.

Ironopolis architecture at its best 👌 It's what we call little Ben. Middlesbrough new town hall An amazing structure built in 1887 and still standing proud today

Went here to see Skindred. After some confusion over which queue we should join, we were in and everything was good. The staff were friendly and we had a great evening, apart from the expensive bar.