Newcastle Film & Comic Con - March 20th 2016
Well, its that time of year again! I managed to get the Sunday of Newcastle Film & Comic Con off work so I picked us up a couple of early entry tickets, although we didn't aim to get there until 10am.
I don't know if you saw my post from last year, but you can check that out over here, it's in a bit more detail than this year's post is going to be.
This year, I think we spent a total of around 40 minutes in the arena. As we were arriving at 10am there were already people leaving. The place just lacked atmosphere, it could have been because the regular ticket holders hadn't been allowed in yet, but its more likely down to poor planning as the event was held over 'derby weekend'. Basically, on the Sunday the regions biggest sporting event was being held in Newcastle, so first there was a lot of people who wanted to watch the football rather than do to the convention, so you lost a chunk of people there, and then as the football match was being held in Newcastle, its generally deemed as an unsafe place to be.
Although the football didn't start until 1:30pm, our Metro into Newcastle was already jammed packed at 9:30am and the city centre was over crowded until kick off time.
The advice of most people was to leave Newcastle at around 2pm, so for anyone with a general entry ticket to the convention it probably wasn't worth the price.
If you're not from the area you're probably thinking.. its just football, whats the big deal?
Technically, thats right. But because they allow drinking alongside sporting events nothing tends to go as it should, and a few years ago after the derby football match in Newcastle (they lost) there was rioting and at one point, a police horse even took a punch. Thats why people tend to avoid the city when the derby football match is on, even if its being held in Sunderland, because the pubs will be filled and if they lose, it will all kick off.
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