Anyone going? Is it going to be a good night?
Hi Trouble - I hope you don't mind me using your quote as the starting point for a new thread - but I wanted to get some more views on Berko.
Berko is becoming a bit of a curates egg: I posted quite a long rant on my (mildly entertaining) blog about this today.
There was right at the end, the sight of someone with partner on shoulders being walked around) - which was a bit dangerous. Anyway - I felt there were a number of other issues (eg. music related) as well as sheer overcrowding (and massive gender imbalance).
I was a bit of an evangelist for Berko - and now the ladies who have come there on my rec. have been mightily disappointed...........
Anyway - the Blues Room is a positive!
Any other views?
Anyone going? Is it going to be a good night?
Not going to Berko - deffinately not in a hurry - not after all the refusers there - most unfriendly venue i have ever been to.
Small room, packed dance floor - when i did get a dance we got trampled on, hot stuffy little blues room - not an experience i wish to repeat any time soon.
Sorry
I've not found it so - about average I'd say. Nothing like as snooty as Fulham or Hammersmith, in my experience - I've never been refused a dance at Berko, anyway, and I'm not a regular there.
In fact, Berko salsa is the most friendly salsa venue I've ever seen - admittedly that's a low bar to reach - so I doubt it's the area.
Yeah, it's true it can get packed - it's a victim of its own success, I think.
Is there any other sort?
Seriously, Berko's the best regular freestyle I know of, with great music - Marc and Latin Ian, what more could you want?
It's crowded, and the floor quality's pretty poor in the Blues Room, but it's way better than most.
So that's a "no" then?
I'm going. I'm having a whole London weekend experience, Utopia Friday, Hammersmith Saturday and Berko Sunday.
when your on the reciving end of such negativity its hard not to keep mentioning it, goodness know we have had to listen to you winging enough times when things don't go your way S38
i'm not happy with this comment, if its your way of a joke I don't find it funny.
I've written quite a lot about Berko in my blog (eg. the articles 'Why is Berko so good?' - and more recently 'Sunday Blues') and I must admit to having mixed feelings about it. Mostly though, I love it - and in particular look forward to the Blues room - and maybe another dance with Rachel - with Marc spinning some great tunes.
Anyway, I expect I'll be there after checking out the MJ scene in Munich later this week.
Berkhamsted is great. I find everyone there to be very friendly and the music is excellent. It'll be a perfect end to the weekend following Utopia on Friday and Hammersmith on Saturday.
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