{"id":3631,"date":"2011-07-15T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T12:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2012-05-28T00:23:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T22:23:15","slug":"zulas-grand-re-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/zulas-grand-re-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Zula’s Grand Re-opening"},"content":{"rendered":"
Friday
\n8 July
\n2011<\/div>\n

After closing their doors to move down the road<\/a>, Zula celebrated their grand re-opening with an impressive line-up of bands over last Friday and Saturday. I’m not an aKing fan so gave the Saturday a miss, but checked out the Friday, along with what felt like 1000s of other people…<\/p>\n

\"Saintfearless\"<\/a> \"Ashtray<\/a>\u00a0 \"Springbok<\/a><\/p>\n

First off, the new place is huge (and was already buzzing when I got there around 8) with 2 stages and 3 (by my count) bar areas separated by a narrow staircase (which I cursed often throughout the night).\u00a0 I think I prefer the smaller space downstairs,\u00a0 it just felt a bit more honest somehow. Plus the lighting was better and so was the sound. Unfortunately, the ska-ish stuff was downstairs, so I spent most of the night with the rock stuff upstairs.<\/p>\n

\"Zula:<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

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Things got off to a lateish start (although relatively early in the scheme of things); upstairs, the night kicked off with some drummers and a brief welcome speech.<\/p>\n\n\t\t