About Mandela Hall
Belfast's premier student entertainment venue hosting clubs, comedies and gigs every week!
Mandela Hall Description
With a 1000-strong capacity the Mandela Hall is one of Belfast's premier music venues and plays host to some of the biggest live acts that visit the city. Recent years have seen the likes of M83, Korn, Black Veil Brides, Ed Sheeran, Chase & Status and Bombay Bicycle Club.
The Mandela is also the home of the Union's legendary Monday Night Connected, and regular theme nights as well as the fortnightly comedy club compered by Colin Murphy.
Reviews
Were you at Air Punch in Mandela Hall on Friday 3rd August? See if you can spot yourself in the video recap below!
Here's a great video recap from our last event in the Hall, Taboo's Pride After Party on Saturday 4th August! See if you can spot yourself!
Down to the bare bones now... Make sure to check out the gigs we have coming up in Elmwood Hall and our new The Speakeasy bar opening on Lisburn Road next weekend!
Get your tickets for Adam Buxton's BUG: David Bowie Special at the Whitla Hall on Thursday 2nd of October.
Now on sale from glistrr priced at £20 (plus booking fee)
https://events.glistrr.com/e/adam-buxton- s-bug-david-bowie-…
GOODBYE MANDELA, The Final Gig In The SU, Curated By ASIWYFA - Friday 27th July 2018
Pics from Air Punch's Pride Special in Mandela Hall on Friday night are now up on their page here https://bit.ly/2KxR0gO, see if you can spot yourself!
Pics from our final event, the sold out Taboo Presents Pride After Party are now up on the Taboo page here https://www.facebook.com/pg/TabooPresents Belfast/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1 168325356652922
A sold out Mandela Hall on Saturday night for the Taboo Presents Pride Party!
Who spotted the Mandela Hall / Taboo Presents float in the Belfast Pride Parade on Saturday? Full photo album here https://www.facebook.com/pg/TabooPresents Belfast/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1 168270633325061
And that's a wrap. Here's some staff through the decades, spot anyone you know?
A SOLD OUT Mandela Hall for the Taboo Presents Official Belfast Pride After Party (the last ever event in the venue) last night!
TONIGHT! It's our final event in the venue and it's about to sell out! The Taboo Presents Belfast Pride Official After Party kicks off at 9pm! VERY limited tickets available on the doors, get down EARLY and avoid the queues. FYI there is no ATM in the building, if you need cash get it before arriving! HAPPY PRIDE!
Belfast that was incredible! See you tonight for the OFFICIAL Belfast Pride After Party!
The last Air Punch in the Student’s Union last night!
The fabulous Mandela Hall crew in late last night and back in early this morning setting up for Air Punch later on and Taboo Presents tomorrow! Tickets still on sale from airpunch.glistrr.com and taboo.glistrr.com!
Courtney Act live in Mandela Hall tonight kicking off our Pride week events!
Last gig and last Shine done. Last comedy tonight with Courtney Act, then Air Punch on Friday and the Taboo Presents Belfast Pride After party on Saturday!
it needs the seating area open as not everyone can stand for a few hours yes they got some people a high bar stool but not good when you are under 5ft tall. Mel C was fabulous staff where lovely
excellent when they have rave's on. Big DJ's like Murdock and the energy 106 DJ's good security and everything
Went to the carnival of light and I didn't know what to expect but what a fantastic show! Dj was a real crowd pleaser, great music. Performers were class, bar service was quick, even the bouncers were chill as fuck! The crowd was the cherry on top, all ages seen enjoying themselves. First time at Mandela Hall and it won't be my last.
Thank you.
Our first visit last night so see Trucker and Thunder... well impressed. A well run venue.. great to get close to the bands... the place ticked all the boxes.. we'll be back ....
OMD fantastic came over from London had a great night security great venue brilliant shame it was over 34 degeeses in there but did not spoil the gig
Met some great people and nice to get change from buying two pints (lucky students)
Nice to go to a smaller venue for a more intimate gig. More of an up close and personal experience with the band. Staff very friendly and not having to wait long at the bars. Definitely recommend this venue for a concert.
Love this venue, you actually get to see the bands as well as hear them. We were at the Thunder gig and was a fantastic night, staff all great as usual and no problems getting served at the bars. I hope you can get Thunder back next time they tour but in the meantime can you set your sights on getting Extreme over, thanks.
Legendary local gig venue, much beloved by generations Belfast music fans. Very simply, the Mandela Hall the best place to see live music in Northern Ireland- intimate without being cramped, with a great sound system and acoustics. Some of the best nights of my life have been spent there <3
Fantastic. Not a bad word to say. If a foam party is on here drink up before foam starts because after that no time to drink unless sitting at side. Foam party is the best most enjoyable night here. Love this place.
Great hall, festival of the dead was a blast,no food though so a five hour gig is long without something to eat, as for the no return policy if u walk out the front door and the cheeky , disrespectful security pretty bad and resulted in alot of ppl missing the end including ourselves, give out wristbands so ppl can come n go and change the security . 5 stars for fatsoma though , always a great performance from them .
Folks, I was at the OMD gig last night and the heat was at silly levels... Stewards handing out water at the front is a sign that all is not good. You don't seem to respond to reviews here, which is your right, but I hope you take the feedback seriously.
Ok, only for having Gavin James who was amazing, lots of loud chatty students though..........very very annoying. Fabvenue, fabgavinjames, fabsound, shame about the chatty chatty girls at the back and the really awful drink (splash coke? Really??)!!
Came to see Motionless In White. The balcony wasn’t open and as it was a 14+ gig the bar within the gig area was closed. Given a wristband to access the bar opposite the merch table but you weren’t allowed to bring your drink into the gig area..(why??)
I don’t understand this logic, I’ve been to many venues in the mainland that are +14 and have been able to enjoy a drink whilst watching the band.
Is this a Northern Ireland thing? Why wasn’t the balcony open? Granted the gig wasn’t sold out but there were too many staff on at the downstairs bar so surely you could’ve transferred some to the balcony bar? Or not opened the main bar at all during the gig and utilised the balcony instead? No issue with gigs having minors at them but please don’t ostracise the older gig goers who were looking to enjoy a few drinks during the gig!
So me and my friend were supposed to be going to an event called purge last night as we were part of the reps for purge, but when we got to the bouncers they said that my ID and my friends ID was apparently not us?? When it was and that we had to have another ID to back it up but I only brought my passport out as I didn’t want to loose anything else! But that wasn’t good enough? This is the second time this has happened!! Not happy at all!!, travelled the whole way from Magherafelt to not even get in even thought we were purge reps! NEVER AGAIN will I be back to Mandela hall, the bouncers are soo cheeky and disrespectful!! Not ever will I go near it again!
Rang about tickets for a concert tonight. The girl on the phone was so rude, asked if I could speak to a manager or supervisor that would know the answer to my question she said no and I said could I get her name and she said no and hung up the phone.
I rang back again and got hold of another staff member, who was very helpful and he answered my questions and said it was probably someone in the entertainment department as they are quite rude and often do that.
I think you should seriously speak to the staff that manage your phone line. That was absolutely ridiculous.
Left standing in the rain for half hour, doors where open but security personnel where pathetic. Got into the gig 15 minutes after the band had started. Bar staff couldn't cope with the volume of people (it was a sell out gig so they should have know better). Heard two songs of the support act who where fantastic but where probably wondering why they where playing to half a hall! Sort yourselves
Out if you're going to hire a sell out act. It would certainly put me off going back to the Mandela hall.
I love Mandela Hall, I’ve seen a lot of concerts here, really intimate, but I can’t believe how rough the security is...we saw neck deep on Wednesday and security was very rough with people crowd surfing, comparing this to secc in Glasgow where we saw neck deep in January where security where friendly and helpful and you could see they loved the crowd surfing aspect, we wife crowd surfed in Glasgow......she would dare do it in Mandela!
Got OMD tickets for my birthday from my hubby and was really looking forward to a fab night out. Unfortunately we only managed to stay in the hall for about 10 minutes as the sweat was dripping off of us! We eventually had to stand outside the main hall near the ladies toilets so we could at least try to enjoy some of the gig. Really very disappointed in the venue. It was unbearably hot inside and definitely turned what was meant to be a memorable birthday night out into a sweating nightmare. Couldn’t see much from outside the doors as the seating area above juts out and makes viewing the stage nearly impossible. Completely gutted my night was ruined.
Complete pure gak, would not recommend anyone going to this dump hole for a proper rave, simples ..... the door men are not at all with it!
it needs the seating area open as not everyone can stand for a few hours yes they got some people a high bar stool but not good when you are under 5ft tall. Mel C was fabulous staff where lovely
excellent when they have rave's on. Big DJ's like Murdock and the energy 106 DJ's good security and everything
Went to the carnival of light and I didn't know what to expect but what a fantastic show! Dj was a real crowd pleaser, great music. Performers were class, bar service was quick, even the bouncers were chill as fuck! The crowd was the cherry on top, all ages seen enjoying themselves. First time at Mandela Hall and it won't be my last.
Thank you.
Our first visit last night so see Trucker and Thunder... well impressed. A well run venue.. great to get close to the bands... the place ticked all the boxes.. we'll be back ....
OMD fantastic came over from London had a great night security great venue brilliant shame it was over 34 degeeses in there but did not spoil the gig
Met some great people and nice to get change from buying two pints (lucky students)
Nice to go to a smaller venue for a more intimate gig. More of an up close and personal experience with the band. Staff very friendly and not having to wait long at the bars. Definitely recommend this venue for a concert.
Love this venue, you actually get to see the bands as well as hear them. We were at the Thunder gig and was a fantastic night, staff all great as usual and no problems getting served at the bars. I hope you can get Thunder back next time they tour but in the meantime can you set your sights on getting Extreme over, thanks.
Legendary local gig venue, much beloved by generations Belfast music fans. Very simply, the Mandela Hall the best place to see live music in Northern Ireland- intimate without being cramped, with a great sound system and acoustics. Some of the best nights of my life have been spent there <3
Fantastic. Not a bad word to say. If a foam party is on here drink up before foam starts because after that no time to drink unless sitting at side. Foam party is the best most enjoyable night here. Love this place.
Great hall, festival of the dead was a blast,no food though so a five hour gig is long without something to eat, as for the no return policy if u walk out the front door and the cheeky , disrespectful security pretty bad and resulted in alot of ppl missing the end including ourselves, give out wristbands so ppl can come n go and change the security . 5 stars for fatsoma though , always a great performance from them .
Folks, I was at the OMD gig last night and the heat was at silly levels... Stewards handing out water at the front is a sign that all is not good. You don't seem to respond to reviews here, which is your right, but I hope you take the feedback seriously.
Ok, only for having Gavin James who was amazing, lots of loud chatty students though..........very very annoying. Fabvenue, fabgavinjames, fabsound, shame about the chatty chatty girls at the back and the really awful drink (splash coke? Really??)!!
Came to see Motionless In White. The balcony wasn’t open and as it was a 14+ gig the bar within the gig area was closed. Given a wristband to access the bar opposite the merch table but you weren’t allowed to bring your drink into the gig area..(why??)
I don’t understand this logic, I’ve been to many venues in the mainland that are +14 and have been able to enjoy a drink whilst watching the band.
Is this a Northern Ireland thing? Why wasn’t the balcony open? Granted the gig wasn’t sold out but there were too many staff on at the downstairs bar so surely you could’ve transferred some to the balcony bar? Or not opened the main bar at all during the gig and utilised the balcony instead? No issue with gigs having minors at them but please don’t ostracise the older gig goers who were looking to enjoy a few drinks during the gig!
So me and my friend were supposed to be going to an event called purge last night as we were part of the reps for purge, but when we got to the bouncers they said that my ID and my friends ID was apparently not us?? When it was and that we had to have another ID to back it up but I only brought my passport out as I didn’t want to loose anything else! But that wasn’t good enough? This is the second time this has happened!! Not happy at all!!, travelled the whole way from Magherafelt to not even get in even thought we were purge reps! NEVER AGAIN will I be back to Mandela hall, the bouncers are soo cheeky and disrespectful!! Not ever will I go near it again!
Rang about tickets for a concert tonight. The girl on the phone was so rude, asked if I could speak to a manager or supervisor that would know the answer to my question she said no and I said could I get her name and she said no and hung up the phone.
I rang back again and got hold of another staff member, who was very helpful and he answered my questions and said it was probably someone in the entertainment department as they are quite rude and often do that.
I think you should seriously speak to the staff that manage your phone line. That was absolutely ridiculous.
Left standing in the rain for half hour, doors where open but security personnel where pathetic. Got into the gig 15 minutes after the band had started. Bar staff couldn't cope with the volume of people (it was a sell out gig so they should have know better). Heard two songs of the support act who where fantastic but where probably wondering why they where playing to half a hall! Sort yourselves
Out if you're going to hire a sell out act. It would certainly put me off going back to the Mandela hall.
I love Mandela Hall, I’ve seen a lot of concerts here, really intimate, but I can’t believe how rough the security is...we saw neck deep on Wednesday and security was very rough with people crowd surfing, comparing this to secc in Glasgow where we saw neck deep in January where security where friendly and helpful and you could see they loved the crowd surfing aspect, we wife crowd surfed in Glasgow......she would dare do it in Mandela!
Got OMD tickets for my birthday from my hubby and was really looking forward to a fab night out. Unfortunately we only managed to stay in the hall for about 10 minutes as the sweat was dripping off of us! We eventually had to stand outside the main hall near the ladies toilets so we could at least try to enjoy some of the gig. Really very disappointed in the venue. It was unbearably hot inside and definitely turned what was meant to be a memorable birthday night out into a sweating nightmare. Couldn’t see much from outside the doors as the seating area above juts out and makes viewing the stage nearly impossible. Completely gutted my night was ruined.
Complete pure gak, would not recommend anyone going to this dump hole for a proper rave, simples ..... the door men are not at all with it!
it needs the seating area open as not everyone can stand for a few hours yes they got some people a high bar stool but not good when you are under 5ft tall. Mel C was fabulous staff where lovely
excellent when they have rave's on. Big DJ's like Murdock and the energy 106 DJ's good security and everything
Went to the carnival of light and I didn't know what to expect but what a fantastic show! Dj was a real crowd pleaser, great music. Performers were class, bar service was quick, even the bouncers were chill as fuck! The crowd was the cherry on top, all ages seen enjoying themselves. First time at Mandela Hall and it won't be my last.
Thank you.
Our first visit last night so see Trucker and Thunder... well impressed. A well run venue.. great to get close to the bands... the place ticked all the boxes.. we'll be back ....
OMD fantastic came over from London had a great night security great venue brilliant shame it was over 34 degeeses in there but did not spoil the gig
Met some great people and nice to get change from buying two pints (lucky students)
Nice to go to a smaller venue for a more intimate gig. More of an up close and personal experience with the band. Staff very friendly and not having to wait long at the bars. Definitely recommend this venue for a concert.
Love this venue, you actually get to see the bands as well as hear them. We were at the Thunder gig and was a fantastic night, staff all great as usual and no problems getting served at the bars. I hope you can get Thunder back next time they tour but in the meantime can you set your sights on getting Extreme over, thanks.
Legendary local gig venue, much beloved by generations Belfast music fans. Very simply, the Mandela Hall the best place to see live music in Northern Ireland- intimate without being cramped, with a great sound system and acoustics. Some of the best nights of my life have been spent there <3
Fantastic. Not a bad word to say. If a foam party is on here drink up before foam starts because after that no time to drink unless sitting at side. Foam party is the best most enjoyable night here. Love this place.
Great hall, festival of the dead was a blast,no food though so a five hour gig is long without something to eat, as for the no return policy if u walk out the front door and the cheeky , disrespectful security pretty bad and resulted in alot of ppl missing the end including ourselves, give out wristbands so ppl can come n go and change the security . 5 stars for fatsoma though , always a great performance from them .
Folks, I was at the OMD gig last night and the heat was at silly levels... Stewards handing out water at the front is a sign that all is not good. You don't seem to respond to reviews here, which is your right, but I hope you take the feedback seriously.
Ok, only for having Gavin James who was amazing, lots of loud chatty students though..........very very annoying. Fabvenue, fabgavinjames, fabsound, shame about the chatty chatty girls at the back and the really awful drink (splash coke? Really??)!!
Came to see Motionless In White. The balcony wasn’t open and as it was a 14+ gig the bar within the gig area was closed. Given a wristband to access the bar opposite the merch table but you weren’t allowed to bring your drink into the gig area..(why??)
I don’t understand this logic, I’ve been to many venues in the mainland that are +14 and have been able to enjoy a drink whilst watching the band.
Is this a Northern Ireland thing? Why wasn’t the balcony open? Granted the gig wasn’t sold out but there were too many staff on at the downstairs bar so surely you could’ve transferred some to the balcony bar? Or not opened the main bar at all during the gig and utilised the balcony instead? No issue with gigs having minors at them but please don’t ostracise the older gig goers who were looking to enjoy a few drinks during the gig!
So me and my friend were supposed to be going to an event called purge last night as we were part of the reps for purge, but when we got to the bouncers they said that my ID and my friends ID was apparently not us?? When it was and that we had to have another ID to back it up but I only brought my passport out as I didn’t want to loose anything else! But that wasn’t good enough? This is the second time this has happened!! Not happy at all!!, travelled the whole way from Magherafelt to not even get in even thought we were purge reps! NEVER AGAIN will I be back to Mandela hall, the bouncers are soo cheeky and disrespectful!! Not ever will I go near it again!
Rang about tickets for a concert tonight. The girl on the phone was so rude, asked if I could speak to a manager or supervisor that would know the answer to my question she said no and I said could I get her name and she said no and hung up the phone.
I rang back again and got hold of another staff member, who was very helpful and he answered my questions and said it was probably someone in the entertainment department as they are quite rude and often do that.
I think you should seriously speak to the staff that manage your phone line. That was absolutely ridiculous.
Left standing in the rain for half hour, doors where open but security personnel where pathetic. Got into the gig 15 minutes after the band had started. Bar staff couldn't cope with the volume of people (it was a sell out gig so they should have know better). Heard two songs of the support act who where fantastic but where probably wondering why they where playing to half a hall! Sort yourselves
Out if you're going to hire a sell out act. It would certainly put me off going back to the Mandela hall.
I love Mandela Hall, I’ve seen a lot of concerts here, really intimate, but I can’t believe how rough the security is...we saw neck deep on Wednesday and security was very rough with people crowd surfing, comparing this to secc in Glasgow where we saw neck deep in January where security where friendly and helpful and you could see they loved the crowd surfing aspect, we wife crowd surfed in Glasgow......she would dare do it in Mandela!
Got OMD tickets for my birthday from my hubby and was really looking forward to a fab night out. Unfortunately we only managed to stay in the hall for about 10 minutes as the sweat was dripping off of us! We eventually had to stand outside the main hall near the ladies toilets so we could at least try to enjoy some of the gig. Really very disappointed in the venue. It was unbearably hot inside and definitely turned what was meant to be a memorable birthday night out into a sweating nightmare. Couldn’t see much from outside the doors as the seating area above juts out and makes viewing the stage nearly impossible. Completely gutted my night was ruined.
Complete pure gak, would not recommend anyone going to this dump hole for a proper rave, simples ..... the door men are not at all with it!
it needs the seating area open as not everyone can stand for a few hours yes they got some people a high bar stool but not good when you are under 5ft tall. Mel C was fabulous staff where lovely
excellent when they have rave's on. Big DJ's like Murdock and the energy 106 DJ's good security and everything
Went to the carnival of light and I didn't know what to expect but what a fantastic show! Dj was a real crowd pleaser, great music. Performers were class, bar service was quick, even the bouncers were chill as fuck! The crowd was the cherry on top, all ages seen enjoying themselves. First time at Mandela Hall and it won't be my last.
Thank you.
Our first visit last night so see Trucker and Thunder... well impressed. A well run venue.. great to get close to the bands... the place ticked all the boxes.. we'll be back ....
OMD fantastic came over from London had a great night security great venue brilliant shame it was over 34 degeeses in there but did not spoil the gig
Met some great people and nice to get change from buying two pints (lucky students)
Nice to go to a smaller venue for a more intimate gig. More of an up close and personal experience with the band. Staff very friendly and not having to wait long at the bars. Definitely recommend this venue for a concert.
Love this venue, you actually get to see the bands as well as hear them. We were at the Thunder gig and was a fantastic night, staff all great as usual and no problems getting served at the bars. I hope you can get Thunder back next time they tour but in the meantime can you set your sights on getting Extreme over, thanks.
Legendary local gig venue, much beloved by generations Belfast music fans. Very simply, the Mandela Hall the best place to see live music in Northern Ireland- intimate without being cramped, with a great sound system and acoustics. Some of the best nights of my life have been spent there <3
Fantastic. Not a bad word to say. If a foam party is on here drink up before foam starts because after that no time to drink unless sitting at side. Foam party is the best most enjoyable night here. Love this place.
Great hall, festival of the dead was a blast,no food though so a five hour gig is long without something to eat, as for the no return policy if u walk out the front door and the cheeky , disrespectful security pretty bad and resulted in alot of ppl missing the end including ourselves, give out wristbands so ppl can come n go and change the security . 5 stars for fatsoma though , always a great performance from them .
Folks, I was at the OMD gig last night and the heat was at silly levels... Stewards handing out water at the front is a sign that all is not good. You don't seem to respond to reviews here, which is your right, but I hope you take the feedback seriously.
Ok, only for having Gavin James who was amazing, lots of loud chatty students though..........very very annoying. Fabvenue, fabgavinjames, fabsound, shame about the chatty chatty girls at the back and the really awful drink (splash coke? Really??)!!
Came to see Motionless In White. The balcony wasn’t open and as it was a 14+ gig the bar within the gig area was closed. Given a wristband to access the bar opposite the merch table but you weren’t allowed to bring your drink into the gig area..(why??)
I don’t understand this logic, I’ve been to many venues in the mainland that are +14 and have been able to enjoy a drink whilst watching the band.
Is this a Northern Ireland thing? Why wasn’t the balcony open? Granted the gig wasn’t sold out but there were too many staff on at the downstairs bar so surely you could’ve transferred some to the balcony bar? Or not opened the main bar at all during the gig and utilised the balcony instead? No issue with gigs having minors at them but please don’t ostracise the older gig goers who were looking to enjoy a few drinks during the gig!
So me and my friend were supposed to be going to an event called purge last night as we were part of the reps for purge, but when we got to the bouncers they said that my ID and my friends ID was apparently not us?? When it was and that we had to have another ID to back it up but I only brought my passport out as I didn’t want to loose anything else! But that wasn’t good enough? This is the second time this has happened!! Not happy at all!!, travelled the whole way from Magherafelt to not even get in even thought we were purge reps! NEVER AGAIN will I be back to Mandela hall, the bouncers are soo cheeky and disrespectful!! Not ever will I go near it again!
Rang about tickets for a concert tonight. The girl on the phone was so rude, asked if I could speak to a manager or supervisor that would know the answer to my question she said no and I said could I get her name and she said no and hung up the phone.
I rang back again and got hold of another staff member, who was very helpful and he answered my questions and said it was probably someone in the entertainment department as they are quite rude and often do that.
I think you should seriously speak to the staff that manage your phone line. That was absolutely ridiculous.
Left standing in the rain for half hour, doors where open but security personnel where pathetic. Got into the gig 15 minutes after the band had started. Bar staff couldn't cope with the volume of people (it was a sell out gig so they should have know better). Heard two songs of the support act who where fantastic but where probably wondering why they where playing to half a hall! Sort yourselves
Out if you're going to hire a sell out act. It would certainly put me off going back to the Mandela hall.
I love Mandela Hall, I’ve seen a lot of concerts here, really intimate, but I can’t believe how rough the security is...we saw neck deep on Wednesday and security was very rough with people crowd surfing, comparing this to secc in Glasgow where we saw neck deep in January where security where friendly and helpful and you could see they loved the crowd surfing aspect, we wife crowd surfed in Glasgow......she would dare do it in Mandela!
Got OMD tickets for my birthday from my hubby and was really looking forward to a fab night out. Unfortunately we only managed to stay in the hall for about 10 minutes as the sweat was dripping off of us! We eventually had to stand outside the main hall near the ladies toilets so we could at least try to enjoy some of the gig. Really very disappointed in the venue. It was unbearably hot inside and definitely turned what was meant to be a memorable birthday night out into a sweating nightmare. Couldn’t see much from outside the doors as the seating area above juts out and makes viewing the stage nearly impossible. Completely gutted my night was ruined.
Complete pure gak, would not recommend anyone going to this dump hole for a proper rave, simples ..... the door men are not at all with it!
it needs the seating area open as not everyone can stand for a few hours yes they got some people a high bar stool but not good when you are under 5ft tall. Mel C was fabulous staff where lovely
excellent when they have rave's on. Big DJ's like Murdock and the energy 106 DJ's good security and everything
Went to the carnival of light and I didn't know what to expect but what a fantastic show! Dj was a real crowd pleaser, great music. Performers were class, bar service was quick, even the bouncers were chill as fuck! The crowd was the cherry on top, all ages seen enjoying themselves. First time at Mandela Hall and it won't be my last.
Thank you.
Our first visit last night so see Trucker and Thunder... well impressed. A well run venue.. great to get close to the bands... the place ticked all the boxes.. we'll be back ....
OMD fantastic came over from London had a great night security great venue brilliant shame it was over 34 degeeses in there but did not spoil the gig
Met some great people and nice to get change from buying two pints (lucky students)
Nice to go to a smaller venue for a more intimate gig. More of an up close and personal experience with the band. Staff very friendly and not having to wait long at the bars. Definitely recommend this venue for a concert.
Love this venue, you actually get to see the bands as well as hear them. We were at the Thunder gig and was a fantastic night, staff all great as usual and no problems getting served at the bars. I hope you can get Thunder back next time they tour but in the meantime can you set your sights on getting Extreme over, thanks.
Legendary local gig venue, much beloved by generations Belfast music fans. Very simply, the Mandela Hall the best place to see live music in Northern Ireland- intimate without being cramped, with a great sound system and acoustics. Some of the best nights of my life have been spent there <3
Fantastic. Not a bad word to say. If a foam party is on here drink up before foam starts because after that no time to drink unless sitting at side. Foam party is the best most enjoyable night here. Love this place.
Great hall, festival of the dead was a blast,no food though so a five hour gig is long without something to eat, as for the no return policy if u walk out the front door and the cheeky , disrespectful security pretty bad and resulted in alot of ppl missing the end including ourselves, give out wristbands so ppl can come n go and change the security . 5 stars for fatsoma though , always a great performance from them .
Folks, I was at the OMD gig last night and the heat was at silly levels... Stewards handing out water at the front is a sign that all is not good. You don't seem to respond to reviews here, which is your right, but I hope you take the feedback seriously.
Ok, only for having Gavin James who was amazing, lots of loud chatty students though..........very very annoying. Fabvenue, fabgavinjames, fabsound, shame about the chatty chatty girls at the back and the really awful drink (splash coke? Really??)!!
Came to see Motionless In White. The balcony wasn’t open and as it was a 14+ gig the bar within the gig area was closed. Given a wristband to access the bar opposite the merch table but you weren’t allowed to bring your drink into the gig area..(why??)
I don’t understand this logic, I’ve been to many venues in the mainland that are +14 and have been able to enjoy a drink whilst watching the band.
Is this a Northern Ireland thing? Why wasn’t the balcony open? Granted the gig wasn’t sold out but there were too many staff on at the downstairs bar so surely you could’ve transferred some to the balcony bar? Or not opened the main bar at all during the gig and utilised the balcony instead? No issue with gigs having minors at them but please don’t ostracise the older gig goers who were looking to enjoy a few drinks during the gig!
So me and my friend were supposed to be going to an event called purge last night as we were part of the reps for purge, but when we got to the bouncers they said that my ID and my friends ID was apparently not us?? When it was and that we had to have another ID to back it up but I only brought my passport out as I didn’t want to loose anything else! But that wasn’t good enough? This is the second time this has happened!! Not happy at all!!, travelled the whole way from Magherafelt to not even get in even thought we were purge reps! NEVER AGAIN will I be back to Mandela hall, the bouncers are soo cheeky and disrespectful!! Not ever will I go near it again!
Rang about tickets for a concert tonight. The girl on the phone was so rude, asked if I could speak to a manager or supervisor that would know the answer to my question she said no and I said could I get her name and she said no and hung up the phone.
I rang back again and got hold of another staff member, who was very helpful and he answered my questions and said it was probably someone in the entertainment department as they are quite rude and often do that.
I think you should seriously speak to the staff that manage your phone line. That was absolutely ridiculous.
Left standing in the rain for half hour, doors where open but security personnel where pathetic. Got into the gig 15 minutes after the band had started. Bar staff couldn't cope with the volume of people (it was a sell out gig so they should have know better). Heard two songs of the support act who where fantastic but where probably wondering why they where playing to half a hall! Sort yourselves
Out if you're going to hire a sell out act. It would certainly put me off going back to the Mandela hall.
I love Mandela Hall, I’ve seen a lot of concerts here, really intimate, but I can’t believe how rough the security is...we saw neck deep on Wednesday and security was very rough with people crowd surfing, comparing this to secc in Glasgow where we saw neck deep in January where security where friendly and helpful and you could see they loved the crowd surfing aspect, we wife crowd surfed in Glasgow......she would dare do it in Mandela!
Got OMD tickets for my birthday from my hubby and was really looking forward to a fab night out. Unfortunately we only managed to stay in the hall for about 10 minutes as the sweat was dripping off of us! We eventually had to stand outside the main hall near the ladies toilets so we could at least try to enjoy some of the gig. Really very disappointed in the venue. It was unbearably hot inside and definitely turned what was meant to be a memorable birthday night out into a sweating nightmare. Couldn’t see much from outside the doors as the seating area above juts out and makes viewing the stage nearly impossible. Completely gutted my night was ruined.
Complete pure gak, would not recommend anyone going to this dump hole for a proper rave, simples ..... the door men are not at all with it!