Simple as that really. What are people favourite venues or worst? Can be for any reason really.

Best venues
Brudenell Social Club Leeds
Cockpit Leeds
Apollo Manchester
Fibbers York
Roundhouse London

Worst
Pretty much any arena/stadium for me. Feel pretty souless
Leeds Academy
Leeds University (not to be confused with Leeds met)
Can't think of any more at the moment

Worst.
Leeds uni.
Sheffield arena, Hull arena,in fact all the bigger venues..

Best.
Cockpit, Leeds
Hull Adelphi
Manchester Apollo
The Rainbow, Finsbury park London (may well be closed).
Webster hall, New York, (time and place)

I am very surprised to see the Adelphi there. I think it is a love hate venue though. With the right band it can be special. In Q magazine many years ago Feeder were asked what the worst venue they have played and the Adelphi was named but then you get Jeffrey Lewis who pretty much every year will play a gig there.
If going abroad I will add Bowery Ballroom very good venue

Just loved it when I went, can see why people don't rate it though!

I'm not a big fan of arenas and tend to avoid as much as possible....Both Manchester MEN and Central are awful.

I must admit I like Blackpool Empress Ballroom, mainly because each time I've been there they were all very good gigs....I like Manchester Ritz too, and being from Warrington, I always find it a shame more bands don't play the Parr Hall, because its actually a good little venue - Probably doesn't help being so close to Manchester and Liverpool.

Don't get out to many gigs tbh

Fav venues from my days out playing in local bands

Fibbers, York - Always loved playing there
The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge - Small intimate venue
Li'l Back Yard Club, London - Gritty venue with some wicked bands usually on
The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge - Always enjoyed it there, bit of a local haunt
Love Apple, Bradford - Nice little venue

International venues - mostly club based

Zouk, Singapore - Best Venue I have had the pleasure to play
Space, Sharm - It kicked off a little but a great club
One Lounge - Pune, India - Small but a great crowd
Tattingers, Malta - Played there twice now and enjoyed it both times
Van Gogh Club, Russia - Not sure if it still exists, a club above and bellow ground built around a disused nuclear bunker near the Ural Mountains! Great crowd too!

Best:
Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Wardrobe, Leeds
Academy, Sheffield
Cluny, Newcastle
Holy Trinity Church, Leeds
Bradford St George's

Worst
Cockpit, Leeds
Leeds Uni Refec

Strange how one person likes a venue and another dislikes it!

When Cockpit over sells a gig it's horrible.

Never noticed that to be honest.

I was once at a Kaiser Chief secret gig there in about 2005 and the overspill went into the other room. Got quickly out of hand

Was that definitely overspill, or was it not people trying to escape the godawful noise that was the Kaiser Chiefs?....

I was young....

Best - Leopard, Doncaster & Adelphi, Hull. The Adelphi is probably the biggest poo hole I've seen gigs in, but it somehow has a great, old-fashioned ambience. Clitheroe Grand isn't bad either on a 'next size up' scale of things.

Worst - Anywhere that holds over five or six hundred.

Best:
Manchester Ritz
Manchester Deaf Institute
Manchester O2 Academy

Worst:
Lancashire Cricket Ground (Feels too far away from the stage)
Heaton Park (Nightmare to get away from late at night)

I'd suggest an obvious neglect of H&S and gig capacity, in probably ten years of doing the Cockpit I've never felt uncomfortable.

Never a venue I got on with tbh.. a few more in the area were doing pay to play schemes which I think is a total joke of an idea and terrible for music in general

My favourite is the Holmfirth Picturedrome at the moment. Also like Sheffield Corporation or anywhere with black walls and a sticky floor!
Least favourite is Sheffield Arena or NEC.

Best
Adelphi , Welly & Tower Hull
Apollo Manchester
York Fibbers and the citadel in St Helens .
1 in 12 Bradford

Worst
Hull arena & Uni

Was in there last weekend watching a local band the 48K's.

Seen many bands there over the years ranging from local bands, cover bands (such as Limehouse Lizzy) to bands like the Groundhogs.

I believe Funeral For A Friend are lined up to play there.

Not really a fan of Arena-type venue's.

Sheffield Corporation would be a favourite of mine. Used to regularly go to and enjoy the original Bradford Rio's in the 90's.

I'm a real venue snob these days. If the venue is gash I will often give the gig a miss. I'm incredibly stubborn, I know.

[uTop[/u (most based in Leeds)
Brudenell Social Club
Hyde Park Picture House (Yeah it's a cinema, they also do a few gigs)
The Library, Leeds (Probably one of the best venues for live sound in Leeds after the Brud)
Left Bank Church
Howard Assembly Room
Holy Trinity Church

[uWorst[/u
So many dreadful venues in Leeds. Most pubs/bars (Carpe, Oporto, Nation of Shopkeepers)
Leeds Academy
Leeds Uni Refectory
Manchester Academy (all 3 of them)
Snooty Fox, Wakefield
Manchester Night & Day
Most arenas

The Cockpit in Leeds is so hit and miss. The venue itself is good with a variety of different rooms that can generate a really good atmosphere but everything else is terrible. The beer is crap and the toilets are a disgrace. When attending a gig here I usually booze somewhere else, turn up and watch the gig, go back to boozing somewhere else.

Another venue I forgot. Brilliant in there and it's quality for comedy nights

Best venue used to be the Liverpool Royal Court, but alas, it's now some comedy club. Excellent sound to be found at Manchester Ritz, Warrington Parr Hall and Northampton Roadmenders.

The worst by far has to be Liverpool echo arena. Acoustics are dreadful.

It appears most people dislike arena's, I suppose they're a necassery evil, if you want to see a bigger band then you've got to go, or do as I do and tend to give em a miss!