For clarity I think it’s only fair to point out I received a courteous email from the K-Dog himself last night apologising for the situation at the Newcastle show I posted about.
I’m not gonna post the whole thing, the general gist was the message to the venue was to say no readmittance allowed but in practice people who needed to go to the loo would obviously be let back in, probably after being held at the back to wait for a suitable time to sit back down again causing minimum disturbance. In which case really the door staff should say to people “look, if you need to go for a quick piss it’s fine but be subtle about it and be prepared to wait around until a suitable break in the performance arises to sit back down again.” But that’s messy and probably nigh on impossible to actually communicate efficiently to every audience member on entry. So you get told you’re not allowed back in in the hope you’ll just keep your bladder in check and not bother, which to be fair probably does yield the desired result of keeping disturbances to the performance to a minimum. However, it’s all a bit confused and at the end of the day, when you’re told by the door staff going in that you’ll absolutely not be allowed to return under any circumstances you don’t really think to challenge that.
Anyway it seems churlish to go on about it so that’s my final thought on the matter. And kudos to Daniel for “reaching out” as the kids say.
