The Black Beauty
Scunthorpe
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Venue Name: The Black Beauty
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Opening Times: 21:30:00 to 23:30:00
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Address: Keddington Rd, Scunthorpe, South Humberside, United Kingdom, DN17 2QU
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Directions: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc=DN17 2QU
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Comments: In its heyday, a really good venue. Too many changes of landlord seem to have spoilt things, and now there's a lot of local competition from other pubs
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Rating: **½
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Landlord:
Paul Scott
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Telephone: 01724 867628
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Agent:
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Contact:
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Live:
Yes
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Stage:
No
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Carpet:
Yes - Playing area part of main pub
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Changing rooms:
No
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Stairs:
Yes - Just 3 or 4 to get to the playing area
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In house PA:
No
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Lights:
No
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Engineer provided:
No - Best place is at the back, near the door - and if you’re in early enough its easy to run the cables round the floor.
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Points: There’s a row of power points under the seats stage left, none RCD’d
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Layout: The bands play in the lounge, in a small, triangular-shaped raised corner. We had our drummer sitting behind the back-line, but with a bit of time and effort a better result could probably be achieved. The room is full of tables so the carry can be intere
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Restrictions: The only downside to the place is trying to promote gigs there, especially publishing gigs on the various gig-guide web-sites. For some reason, spell-checkers and obscenity-spotters always pick out the worst in a place, and Scunthorpe doesn’t fare too wel
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