Voodoo Lounge At Harrah's Casino North Kansas City

The Voodoo Lounge could be the best venue in Kansas City. Really. It's constructed the perfect layout complete with a state of the art sound and lighting system that nobody in town can match.

Unfortunately, the Voodoo has severely fallen off its game.

The schedule used to be filled with a wide variety of cutting edge acts and events. Any more the acts are mostly corporate or radio events with a hot act every once in a great while.

And not only has the talent lagged, so has the hospitality.  I went to see a friend's cover band recently and got a quick introduction to the venue's so called security staff.  A small group was at a couch behind the soundboard and stood up to take a picture of themselves with the stage and the lighting in the background.  A couple of the guys leaned up against the wall. A security guard yelled something at them, but nobody could understand him because of the sound so they went back to their picture. Enraged, the security guard had the whole couple kicked out of the club.  I asked management why and was told that the group was too drunk and rowdy.  The band was on their third song and this group was nowhere near too intoxicated. It was an embarrassing show of authority.  Later the band tried to invite somebody in the crowd to sing. The security staff wouldn't let that person on stage so he stood on the floor and sang his song.

Enough is enough. If there's a show I have to see I'll come and see it, but until the Voodoo Lounge puts somebody in charge who knows how to run a venue and a security staff  then I'll find some place else to see my friends' cover band perform. Preferably one that doesn't charge $6 for a Miller Lite.

Making a come back on sat night!!

Place is DEAD!  Went a couple of weeks ago for a girls night out. . . thank goodness ladies get in free because at 11:30pm we were the only four people in the entire place??  We promptly left and I won't be back.