I am a Southampton girl born and bred and have been to the Southampton Guildhall for many concerts, plays, exhibits and i was even in a christmas carol concert when i was 6 there.

It is described on its website as the South's largest multi-purpose entertainment venue. Well i don't know if that is true or not but it certainly isn't the most classiest.

The guildhall is based right in the centre of Southampton next to the civic offices. It is roughly a 5-10 minute walk from the central train station. It has a capacity of 1749 and hosts a number of relatively famous artists every year. But no one ever big really plays there because it is not really up to the standards of something like the bic in Bournemouth.

The last refit of the guildhall was done in roughly 1989 and it is in desperate need of another one.

The stage is small, the seating is very uncomfortable and the carpet is held together with carpet has most definitely seen better days as its held together mostly by carpet tape!

It annoys me that Southampton is a big city and we have no decent concert venues meaning we miss out on some of the bigger artists.
St marys stadium have had Bon Jovi and Elton John, but they cant hold the events all of the time, it should be up to the guildhall to hold better and bigger events.

We went to see a night with queen last year, which is a tribute band ran by the chap who won stars in their eyes a few years back as Freddie mercury. The band were fantastic, but we could barely hear a thing and there just felt like there was no atmosphere.

I really wish they would change it, i think if they made the venue better it would bring some biggest artists down our way and everyone would benefit from the people coming into the city to see them. More money for everyone all round!

Come on Southampton!