I have to agree with everyone who posted. Terrible. Horrible. Disgustingly small venue for the magnitude of the event. Waiting in lines for tickets that were “presale” then waiting AGAIN to gain access to the venue.

Don’t get me wrong the sets were amazing!!! At first we had room to get our groove on, then the sweaty mass of human flesh swaying in sync drove me out the door. We left early, I voiced my opinion to the staff at Spin about their unprofessional, unorganized mess of an event. Oh, and don’t get me started on the lack of bar service, 4 bartenders for 1500+ people? wtf. I should have went to Club New York for the simulcast. The drinks were probably better and I wouldn’t have had the sweat from 1500+ people on my body from slithering my way out the door.

I can say that I will *never* go to Spin again, for a show, a drink, a booty call.. never.

SIM please book a venue that is capable of handling an EPIC event, not the EPIC fail that occurred.

Sincerely,

djc

I didn’t get in until a bit after 22:30, but caught the end of Dayne’s set and all of Tyler Hampton’s set, both of which rocked. I believe Jack Trash made an announcement around 23:00 that David Guetta would be on in 30 minutes, but I don’t think he came on until about midnight.

Guetta’s set was good, as would be expected, and he seemed to be having a great time. He played songs that large portions of the crowd clearly knew and loved, as they were able to energetically sing the lyrics when Guetta would cut the volume for a few key seconds.

But…

The venue/execution was horrible. I can imagine no way in which Spin wasn’t 100+ people over capacity/fire code for the main room/floor. I was about 3/4 of the way to the back on the floor, and while I started out with about 5″ of buffer space in front of me, constant shoving/pushing of people entering/leaving the crowd removed any buffer space by the time Guetta arrived. The shoving/pushing didn’t stop, but at least when there was literally no space around me, I didn’t have to worry about falling–the whole group just shifted around as one solid entity. A solid, sweaty, kind of smelly entity.

I don’t know if it was specifically a result of being over-crowded, or inherent to the venue, but the ventilation was massively insufficient. Sweat was dripping down everyone before the main act even arrived on stage. The single main floor bar to serve probably 1500 people was clearly insufficient, but to make matters worse, Spin apparently very strictly enforces a “one drink per wristband” policy, which means that everyone who wants drinks needs to concurrently crowd around the bar, rather than being able to send one person to grab a couple drinks. (Not that this policy is even effective, as it’s simple, albeit time consuming, to just move down to the next bartender to get the second drink.)

So, despite good music, I just couldn’t handle the massively unpleasant conditions in the club. I, like many others, left Spin early, likely never to return [in my life]. This may or may not have been the fault of Spin (as opposed to SIM), but I’d have to recommend that SIM not book any shows at Spin in the foreseeable future to placate its upset customers. It sucks to have one less venue available, but I think that’s not as bad as having a ton of angry [former?] customers.