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Originally Posted by andrewforce5
i've recently been speaking to sarah at the doghouse lots about putting on gigs and she's really up for it. she also seems to have the right idea and attitude, something dundee's been needing for a while now. i'm going to be doing a lot more gigs with the doghouse now because it definately seems like the right people to deal with right now.
my story isn't really related to the doghouse but rather the westy. i had a gig booked with them (captain everything on the 25th of may) but it's since been moved to laings because liam (chunderbunny) is doing an all dayer that day and wanted to put on captain everything as the headliners. so i went into the westie today to cancel the gig and it wasn't even on the fucking books!
they were all "oh maybe the person who booked it just wrote it down on a piece of paper and lost it or something" i watched the guy write it in the fucking book!
it's not like i care gig-wise although i would if i was confirming rather than cancelling but it's not the first time they've done that to someone or even just me. they used to blame not paying your deposit then the claymore gig got cancelled after they had payed the deposit and had posters up.
i quite like the westie as a venue and stu's great but it sucks that this is becoming a more regular thing with them.
anyway in conclusion i'd just like to say "bloody westport, yay the doghouse!" who wants to join me in my "bloody westport, yay the doghouse!" movement?
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I was there when you came into cancel, seems rather shoddy the way they go about some matters, I think if you are going to book gigs with the Westport (probably unlikely?) in future its best to talk to Andy the manager, he seems to have control/last say on these matters. Probably best you found out now that the gig wasnt written down, and not two months later if the event was still going ahead, you would have certainly be pee'ed off, trust me. Saying that I still think the westie is a great venue and as said, Stu is a great sound guy. Even though I had beef with them back last month, I'll still be using them in the time being, with caution though. The Doghouse still has teething problems at the moment, even thought Sarah can be helpful. Am still rather suspect how they cancelled the gig on Saturday with no reason, not really professional, plus me and Ewan got told to "come back next week" when we went in to arrange some dates, thats not really helpful to us.. but lets hope in future matters get fixed and the Doghouse can flourish