Sandra Spice Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Anyone been inside old Nat Centre for Pop Music which is now Hallams Student union yet? Just interested to know what's there & what it's like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPG Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Its crap. Simple as that really! Two rather standard bar's with nothing special about them, and no pool tables/arcade machines like the old union. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy78 Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 I'm not too sure about it either.The bars are quite nice, but main bar downstairs is pretty small and I'm not sure that the space upstairs is big enough to run decent club nights. The individual drum rooms are quite pokey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THCAyle Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 they could have done alot better just like last time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyR Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 whats it like compared to bar1/interval/fusion&foundry and octagon at sheff uni? is there any comparison? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jswr Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 no. simple as. it's alright but at the end of the day it is never going to be able to compete with sheffield university's club nights. The differing personalities and music tatstes of sheff uni students make it more accessible to more alternative nights-which are generally far better. Hallam-from experience-holds more general run of the mill topman/topshop students who listen to RnB and other commercially accepted music. Rock night at Hallam is **** too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barny_100 Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Lovely bit of sweeping generalisation there! Obviously Sheffield Uni people are so different (For that read superior) because....oh, why exactly? What a joker.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottf Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Originally posted by Andy78 I'm not too sure about it either.The bars are quite nice, but main bar downstairs is pretty small and I'm not sure that the space upstairs is big enough to run decent club nights. The individual drum rooms are quite pokey. It worked when they used to hold insomniacz there- it was amazing!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushup Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Insomniacs was great there! It's just going to end up having ***** like stardust now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenfleece Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Indeed the conversion COULD have been much better. The old atmosphere of the massive HUB bar has totally gone, its far too much like a wine bar on West Street, too bright and not in the slightest bit "studenty" in the sense that the NMB was. The building itself is nowhere near as large as it looks, and as rightly stated above, the rooms are bar area are very pokey. The collective and combined space there is less than the total floor area of the NMB so why they bothered to move at all I dont know. Wasted money.... The club venues are OK for intimate and small events, but try squeezing 1200 students in there and it wont work at all. No idea what the official capacity is but a lot of students will be disappointed at this.....the design of the building originally was as a museum and exhibition centre with small rooms, and as such without a total rebuild it still looks like a converted art gallery or museum with small claustrophobic rooms.....naff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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