Northern Lights among top 100 club venues by ticket sales
Northern Lights ranks #51 on Pollstar's list of the top 100 club venues by ticket sales for the first three quarters of this year. The Clifton Park venue ranked #55 on the list for all of 2010. (Grains of salt: the list only ranks clubs that report ticket sales to Pollstar.) Terminal 5 in NYC topped the current list, followed by the 9:30 Club in DC. (list embedded after the jump)
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Pollstar 2011 Third Quarter YTD Ticket Sales Top 100 Club Venues
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If there were a venue in this area for mid-size rock shows that wasn't in a strip mall, I promise you Northern Lights wouldn't be on the list.
... said xina on Oct 19, 2011 at 9:32 AM | link
I'm with xina. I strongly dislike Northern Lights as a venue (a strip mall in Clifton Park??) but there just isn't enough competition right now to knock it off it's horse. Red Square is too small, Rev Hall doesn't book the big names, and the Armory should have more shows. The lack of parking for the Armory is also an issue.
... said Summer on Oct 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM | link
Take away the fact that it's in a stripmall and Clifton Park and it's still a terrible venue. The layout is horrendous with the stage barley off the ground in a back corner, and the bar jutting out into viewing area. You can never find a decent spot to enjoy the show there, and if you do you're like locked in by the crowd and can't move, forget about trying to get a drink. And the staff there is the worst. I understand that part of that is because they're in a stripmall in Clifton Park, and host a lot of acts that don't attract the most courteous and respectful of patronage, but jeepers. It seems like every time I go there some goon bouncer is barking order or slamming his way through the crowd, they're down right rude.
... said Jackers on Oct 20, 2011 at 12:34 PM | link