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Brilliant as always . Pleasent experience every time

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Daila Graholska . 2024-12-04

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Fab venue. Came to see Lincolnshire's finest, Sleaford Mods. Great night. Would deffo come back to see other bands here. Spacious main room, good choice of beer at the bar l, great sound and friendly staff. Five star rating from me.

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Shmingx . 2024-12-03

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Went to Kris Barras Band gig last night, really good evening and a nice local venue, very impressive. Kris Barras Band were superb as were The Nocturnal, great bands!!

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Stu Allbones . 2024-12-01

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Great venue with a great choice of entertainment

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Mark Robinson . 2024-11-30

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The artists were 5 star but drinks were expensive. They only take card payment & not everyone has one.

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Harry Waters . 2024-11-30

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Cracking venue, cosy and intimate, took my son to his first gig to see Sleaford mods, security were great, keeping an eye on him while I went to the toilet, love this venue

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Andy Priestley . 2024-11-27

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A great venue, it's perfect for live music with excellent acoustics and no restricted views.

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Paul McFarlane . 2024-11-26

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Another great evening at the Drill, this time with 90s band, The Bluetones. Great venue for a gig, small, intimate, and a great atmosphere, too. Nice bar area separate from the main room and easy to get served, with plenty of staff on. All that in a lovely old Victorian building.

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Graham Jackson . 2024-11-20

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Saw Fleetwood bac they were fantastic 🤩

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Charlotte Spalding . 2024-11-03

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Great venue, good acoustics, nice bar area. Wish more gigs were sested. I understand they can sell more tickets for standing vs seated. But led zep was half full so could have been seated.

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Luidee CS . 2024-11-02

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Great atmosphere, good range of events, gigs, punk nights, and comedians

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Berni Laing . 2024-10-28

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My partner came along to Glory Days at the Drill. The video attached to this review is the view he got from the disabled area in the venue. I realise when booking an accessibility chair you aren’t guaranteed an unobstructed view and it tells you this on the website, I still feel it’s a disappointing area as people just crowd in front of you. I will say the staff here were very accommodating and friendly to my fiancé hence three stars.

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Kathryn Hall . 2024-10-27

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What an amazing time we had last night watching King King! I just want to say a huge thanks to the staff at The Drill for their fabulous support! My son is deafblind and the team went out of their way to make sure he could access the event and that we were supported throughout. We will certainly be back :)

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Kerry Leeson-Beevers . 2024-10-25

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Lovely venue however the seats are far too close together!! Toilets were spotlessly clean and drinks were reasonably priced.

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Harrison Dimelow . 2024-10-16

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Very good. Although the chair spacing is a little tight but it would not put me off from going back.

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Bruce Watt . 2024-10-11

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Outstanding venue, great music and great staff

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Paul Gilbert . 2024-10-10

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Great gig. Friendly staff reasonably priced

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Elton Felixstowe . 2024-10-10

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Nice venue with plenty of room and quite good acoustics. Good facilities and a fairly well stocked bar

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Neil Hickman . 2024-10-06

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Great building and fantastic live music venue. Good selection of beers

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Billy Kulke . 2024-10-04

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Our first visit to The Drill, all the staff are polite friendly and helpful. The building is a stunning piece of architecture and it's immaculate everywhere! However the only reason and it's the most important one of why we won't return, are the acoustics. With respect we've been to thousands of gigs all over Europe but at The Drill the acoustics are very poor and you know instantly, the actions of the musicians also tell you that too. Thin, empty and trebly, at times serious feedback and echoes. But I'll leave it up to you to decide.

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Carlos DD . 2024-10-04

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Amazing concert. Awesome venue!

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Marin Lučić . 2024-10-04

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Great small venue for a show, friendly service and clean and tidy.

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David Green . 2024-10-02

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Great time at the red herring comedy night, booked the next one. Venue really nice, bar well stocked prices reasonable. Only thing is you are very shoulder to shoulder in the primary school plastic chairs, when it was only half capacity would of been nice to set the chairs out to give some space!

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Daryl Bastin . 2024-09-30

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Fabulous venue. Our very first visit. Staff were terrific and the place was exceptionally clean. Wouldn't hesitate to visit again. Congratulations to all concerned.

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Ian Robinson . 2024-09-29

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Had an amazing night, went to see Danny beard, drag race UK winner, stunning performance amazing sound and lights, staff brilliant, especially the guy who escorted us to meet and greet, very friendly and informative, a credit to the venue

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Carolyn Cox . 2024-09-13

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Great venue, my first time at! Badlands wasn't overcrowded, what I personally like. The sound team works hard to make everything work. Non alcoholic drinks at the bar. Not ridiculously overpriced. Didn't try food, fast food wasn't my choice. Will definitely back.

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Izabela “Bella” Wyremska . 2024-09-09

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Great venue, my first time visiting Easy to get to and just the job for smallish gigs Will now keep an eye open for future events

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Chris Sanders . 2024-09-02

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A great venue. Events are well organised and it is such an intimate space to see some great acts.

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Imagination & Fun . 2024-08-20

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A lovely evening however drinks a pit pricey but will visit again

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Dave Bareham . 2024-08-20

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It's a great little venue with an outdoor and indoor drinks/seating space - roomy and much needed on a warm summer night. The one negative was a lack of air-con in the main stage making it stifling and uncomfortable on the night we attended. I didn't get to watch the whole show as I needed air and a cool down every 3 songs.

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Nikki Wyborn . 2024-08-19

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Good arts & music venue, but on a relatively cool evening, it was far too hot. One person fainted before the music started. Good facilities & bar. Better when event is seated than standing (at only 5' 7" seeing the act is always a challenge!).

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Mike Harries . 2024-08-16

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Went to see Kiefer Sutherland last night. Excellent show. Would highly recommend watching them, lovely location, friendly staff. Great night out.

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Leigh Wilkinson . 2024-08-15

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My first time at The Drill last night, Londoner now living up here. Been following Alabama 3 for too many decades now. Last night was as good a venue as I’ve been in. Band on form, great sound system and acoustics, intimate like having them in your front room, loos clean as a whistle, bar was great, staff were brilliant, low key security, easy entry. Just perfect. 👌 Sleaford mods next. The Drill is perfect. Well done 👍🏻 Totally recommend this venue. Some great music scheduled.

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Elmsy . 2024-08-09

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David. Sundara Karma bar. You are the best. Mwah. Thank you for being a gem. Top, top service.

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Madeleine Crossan . 2024-07-25

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Always nice to visit The Drill to see a show. Just a little bit of investment in the seating needed! 😁

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David McLeary . 2024-07-20

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My friend and I went to see a local Youth Drama company put on Les Miserables. They were amazing. All between 11 and 19 years old and the casting was superb. So much talent and they were just so good. The Drill Hall is a lovely venue and our seats - B13 and B14 were perfect. The rows in front - aa, bb, cc etc were all hard plastic chairs. Whereas rows a, b, c etc were raised comfortable seats and better views, we felt.

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Jules M . 2024-07-16

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A shocking venue with over priced drinks. 400 people in a room with no air-conditioning and they couldn't even be bothered to let us noth they where running 2 hours behind. Love seeing pink but this venue sploit it

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Ian Thrall . 2024-07-14

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Decent size venue. Good choice of refreshments available.

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Martin Castrey . 2024-07-09

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Went to see Jack Broadbent. He was fantastic, refreshing, and a new style of playing. The venue was also fantastic. Really good atmosphere, nice bar and great staff. I had a +1 ticket for my carer and the staff saw me in safe and sound in my wheelchair. We are back again for more in the near future. Highly recommend this venue, I wish we had found it earlier.

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George Crane . 2024-07-07

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Great venue. Wheelchair accessible, helpful staff team, and reasonable prices. We already booked our next gig.

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Martin Smith . 2024-07-02

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Nice place for a gig, shame the chairs are so uncomfortable

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Ian Stratford . 2024-06-28

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Great band The Zutons but no air conditioning on the hottest day of the year. Like being in a sauna 🤔😒

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Stephen Moore . 2024-06-27

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Cracking little venue for live music 👍🏻🎶

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David Mann . 2024-06-22

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Lovely building, affordable drinks. Would definitely come here again.

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Paul Schuller . 2024-06-16

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Good place in Lincoln 10 minutes away from train station drinks are quite expensive £6.50 for a pint so would recommend going to one of the pub's nearby before gig.

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Brian Blackburn . 2024-06-03

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Nice place, amazing music but aggressively strict over under 18s and drinks. I’m 17 and my parents bought me half a cider cause why not. They were upon us like hawks, rude as well. I wouldn’t even mind if they were nice about it but they were R U D E. Like come on I’m 18 in two months. I understand the whole licence thing but no reason to be rude.

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Neve . 2024-06-02

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Very reasonable prices, good sound acoustics. Convenient central location near main multi storey car park, and also the bus station.

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Craig Miles . 2024-05-25

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Great experience. Atmosphere and employees 5 stars. Would definitely recommend it.

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Nicole Ellis . 2024-05-22

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Great venue. Reasonable price for drinks and food. Friendly staff.

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Sue Samme . 2024-05-13

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What a fantastic venue, we absolutely loved it and were so pleasantly surprised. We love live music and fo to quite a few events and often, venues can be a bit scruffy. Not this one!!! So clean and well maintained, the toilets were modern and spotless, great bar, food selection on offer, very friendly staff, we had an amazing night. Only slight criticism is that they had nothing in terms of snacks or anything to eat there. We had a long car journey and no time to go for a meal so were starving. I had to go out and get something from the shops which meant I missed quite a bit of the show but I needed something. Otherwise it was absolutely brilliant 😁

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Cloud . 2024-05-13

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Beautiful Venue, seen few things here but most recently Newton Falkner and it was fab, plenty of room, good sound easy quick and friendly bar staff, and you can tell the security were on it too

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SJ Stephenson . 2024-04-29

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Great small and intimate venue, the sound was excellent. Staff were amazing. We will definitely look out for more gigs here.

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Michelle Greensmith . 2024-04-14

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Really clean venue. Wasn't drinking that day, so it was great they sold decent coffee.

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Ants Ambridge . 2024-04-12

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Sound quality was absolutely awful for the badlands gig! Couldn't hear any vocals clearly unless no instruments were being played (ie talking between songs) as soon as the bands started up, it was just garbled. Stood watching the drummer of one of the bands doing their thing very well, but it seemed like only half the drum kit was mic'd up. I could see them hitting stuff but no sound accompanied it. Considering the headline act was a covers band, every single took me a good while to work out what it was as the sound quality was so bad Also, made sure I took cash out in advance, as I know small venues prefer cash to card charges, only to see a sign at the bar saying cash only if correct change. Really don't think I will be rushing back for another music event after discussing it with friends and hearing their experience was the same as mine for other gigs!

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Mark Glover . 2024-04-08

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Could do with more bar staff at gigs. But space works well.

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Martin Christopher . 2024-04-06

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Brilliant night at Martin Kemps back to the 80's night Could do with a few more chairs in main room as feet were killing me towards the end...probably old age lol

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Heather Harris-Parkes . 2024-03-23

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Bright, airy but above all a good sound in the concert hall.

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Shaun Bell . 2024-03-21

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Lovely venue, easy to get to, and offering a range of entertainment to cover most people's tastes

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ghislaine headland-vanni . 2024-03-19

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Great venue, great views of the stage, great sound. My only negative would be that if you are going to a seated performance, be aware that the seating in the lowered section, (AA -HH) consists of linked plastic chairs which, while not uncomfortable, are quite small and don't give a lot of room. I understand this is because the lower section is cleared for standing at some gigs. Upper section seats are bigger.

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Steve Cutler . 2024-02-28

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Good venue. Large bar area. Hall has good acoustics. We'll organised.

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John Hutchings . 2024-02-13

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Went to a gig here. The door staff, bar staff and security were polite and helpful. As a guy that generally doesn't like crowds, I was made to feel welcome and not hemed in even before I saw the crowd. Nice slow drip into the event eased my discomfort.

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David Henley . 2024-02-11

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Amazing bands However... The sound balance is utterly shocking, I have seen a few acts here and the sound is so tilted towards treble its painful and causes genuine discomfort

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John Lynford . 2024-02-08

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Great venue, intimate performances

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James Hill . 2024-02-06

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Great gem right in the centre of Lincoln. Fantastic value for money. I have accessability needs and they have always been very helpful. We will definitely be attending again.

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Helen Pratt . 2024-02-05

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Went to see tribute bands for spandau ballet and Duran Duran great night and only £22 what a bargain ,great venue lovely bar need to spread the word how good it is here

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Ady Coy . 2024-01-22

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No ice creams available in interval. Missing a trick there.

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Kay Atkinson . 2024-01-17

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high ceilings so can be a little chilly in winter

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Lydia Farrow . 2024-01-16

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A great venue for our work party with a lot of history behind it. The communication was excellent when organising our visit. The bar-staff, dj and door staff were friendly, helpful and incredibly attentive. I'd definitely recommend considering this venue for work get togethers and larger parties.

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Sarah Shanks . 2024-01-10

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Superb theatre, modern and good fun

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Geoff Barrie . 2024-01-02

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Marvellous panto.lovely venue.always enjoy it there

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Sue Batt . 2023-12-28

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Went to a pantomime whilst on holiday with family near by had a nice time. All staff helpful and polite. All areas were clean including the toilets. Easy to walk to from local car park.

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Elaine Dunne . 2023-12-28

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Fantastic for the family made my day

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Paul Horwood . 2023-12-27

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Great venue with bar and snacks.

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Alan Bramley-Buhler . 2023-12-24

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Booked last minute this afternoon for the panto. All staff were incredibly friendly and helpful. Comfortable seating and great performance.

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Michelle Hall . 2023-12-22

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Colourful and professional panto. Good singing and skillful actors - great tongue twisters. Amusing but not overly funny. Seats rather hard for a long session. Take a cushion. Photography not permitted so no photos.

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Angi Beckett . 2023-12-21

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Great venue, great night out Skids were on top form

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JP H . 2023-12-04

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Great place to visit, need more comedy shows in Lincoln.

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Vicky Graves . 2023-11-19

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Appaling acoustics, 2nd thing we've been to here, the first one I though the sound problems due to being an amateur dramatics performance and didn't have the full sound system ect, and the seats gave me the worst bad back. However the second one was a gig by a band we've seen before, incredibly talented and amazing performers, but tonight was horrendous, all the sound blended into one mass noise, couldn't hear the singer, I wear earplugs at gigs that are on the louder side and honestly feel bad for anyone who didn't have any in as its the only thing that made it bareable. Turned a well known popular talented band that performed in many great venues to an up and coming, mediocre band that is still learning the ropes and climbing the venue ranks

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Emma Boon . 2023-11-15

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Good atmosphere, clean and tidy utilities. Drink prices could be better/less.

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Darren Wells . 2023-11-13

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Great concert venue , went to see the Skids , cracking night. Disabled visitors , the venue itself is no problem at all , but if you read the website it says about disabled parking , ignore that , as after a certain time it is parking for all and for a evening gig you have no chance . There is a what I think a expensive ( nearly a fiver ) evening car park next door, which is a cow to try and sort payment out in the dark , at least 6 of us that parked spent bloody ages trying to sort payment, nothing to do with the venue itself, but be warned and allow time to sort it . The venue itself was dead easy, 10/10 . Parking 1/10

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roger brown . 2023-11-13

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Nice venue, not too large so you can get closer to the acts. Pleased it's reopened after lockdowns.

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Jayne LostRider (Lost Rider) . 2023-11-11

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Spot on venue.Will definitely be going there again.Bar is a bit pricey but hey ho.

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Col Palmer . 2023-11-06

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Nice ambience, well organised venue which was busy but not packed in like sardines, friendly and helpful staff and a well stocked bar.

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lisa howard . 2023-11-02

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Brilliant venue, two bars and fantastic band, Soul Solution, awesome night, thanks to all, ooh and parking right next door, well worth it

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Robbie Dale . 2023-10-23

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Well organised nice venue good sound and view. Had a very enjoyable evening to see Eddi Reader.

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David lees . 2023-10-05

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A great venue we visited for a comedy gig on a day away from Sheffield and we'd definitely come again. A lovely outside terrace, great drinks that you won't find in other places and tasty nachos. The hall for the gig was a good size with crystal clear sound and seats were comfortable and you actually had some leg room. We'll keep our eyes open for future gigs here.

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Steve mcgarry . 2023-10-03

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Going to be run by lincoln college for students performances, no idea if it is going too have a student discount

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chris carpenter . 2022-02-02

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I like going to panto here. The only problem this year was having to wear mask as it was very hot in there

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Maxine Johnson . 2022-01-15

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Visited here for a pantomime showing of Aladdin. Very good covid measures in place and was a great experience. For a small venue it had very good atmosphere. Only lost a star due to the excessive heat in the venue, no big deal though. Would recommend.

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Robert Turner . 2022-01-06

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Had a fantastic time at the Drill Hall. Amazing show and very well run. Staff were helpful and friendly. The seating could do with a bit of tlc but that's my only criticism, the fact the Drill Hall is still open and looking fantastic is amazing! 👏👏 Definitely worth a visit! The Aladdin panto was fabulous for all age groups.

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Lara Marzec . 2022-01-04

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Great to see the Drill Hall open again. The changes look great as well. Took the grandchildren to the pantomime yesterday and we all had a great time. The tiering system meant that we all had a great view. Will be booking for Phantom in July. Only minor issue is that the seats are not that comfortable.

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Danny Hudson . 2021-12-30

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Fantastic venue. Great performance

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Victoria Halstead . 2021-12-23

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Superb panto as always. Really happy that Lincoln college rescued it.

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Bob Kaye . 2021-12-21

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Absolutely loved alladin tonight gantastic performance my kids loved it

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Gaz Westy . 2021-12-20

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Great to be at Lincoln Drill Hall after its really good refurbishment to see this years Christmas Panto, Aladdin. What a brilliant production, very funny and thoroughly entertaining. Well done all 👏 😀

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Mick Dulku . 2021-12-19

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Visited for panto as I have for the last few years. Panto was fantastic as ever.. but the venue is no longer a special place to visit. No stock on the bar (couldn’t even get a cup of tea as no milk or teabags!). Staff all brand new and no management as no one in these roles yet. Emailed the college to complain and got ignored. Clearly happy to have the ticket money and don’t care whether people enjoy their experience.

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Jen Causon . 2021-12-17

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Well organised. Comfortable great panto.

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David Malpass . 2021-12-16

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Great little venue, up close and personal with a good selection of acts for the comedy night.

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Bryan Proctor . 2020-03-15

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Great concert!but the hall itself was rather cold.

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Petra Hodge . 2020-03-13

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Always has an interesting variety of shows. Staff are friendly. The drinks are reasonably priced. Seating in the venue is comfortable. I generally see comedy gigs here, as the Drill Hall is much nicer than the Engine Shed, the other main comedy venue in Lincoln.

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Gregor Smith . 2020-03-08

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