No Rock And Roll Fun

YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD VENUE DOWN: Last night's Liverpool Echo (not on icliverpool yet) carried a report that the first of the Lomax venues - the one that was actually in Lomax Buildings - is to reopen. The owner of the building - having had no takers for the place - is going to run the place himself (this seems to be a bit of a recipe for disaster, to us - after all, "how difficult can running a venue be" is the sort of phrase that comes back to haunt people...) under the godawful title of Adixion. Somehow, we can't imagine the phrase "we're playing the Liverpool Adixion on Thursday" tripping off the tongues of too many artists. And, unlike the early days of the Lomax, the new venue is going to be facing loads of comeptition - there's the Academy in the building used by the Lomax after it had relocated the first time; a return for Heebeejeebees in the old location; a much-revitalised university (also trading under the name the Academy) and the Barfly and Bandwagon/Zanzibar conspiracy. The question is: are there enough people to keep 'em all going - especially during the summer time, when Liverpool's gig-going masses tend to quit the city to oversummer with mater and pater?