The Corbin Arena — Attraction in Corbin

James Clark's review is spot on. Your parking is horrible! I've been to tons of places in this Country, for dozens and dozens of different types of events, easily hundreds of times, and this place has logistically the worst set up I've ever experienced, by far. It was painfully slow to get in and parked. I've been to the Indy 500, several times in my life, and could still get in and out of there easier, and it was up until this event, the most difficult to navigate for parking. This place, it's just one road in, and out here. What geniuses decided to put an arena here, at the top of a hill? Getting out was worse, and people were aimed in multiple directions trying to figure a way out. Getting in was fun, too. Especially when you have employees clueless as to how you can quickly get people through your paranoid, I mean metal detectors. Concessions stands, or lack thereof, was a joke. One, you had one! High school football games have more than one!

Regarding the sound, there are several things that factor into any place that a band plays at. Even where you're seated, or standing, will make a difference. For these shows, with Loverboy and Reo Speedwagon it's a 50/50 blame. You guys are NOT equipped to handle the bigger acts with stronger sound. You seriously need to bring in an expert to get sound banners set up for deflecting and directing sound. Loverboy's sound was washed out, and they also had major timing issues, as well. Even my wife noticed it. So their sound guy owns a big part of it, too. Reo Speedwagon was better, as far as the timing issues go. Sound management was less than impressive whenever Dave Amato's guitar was brought up for a solo. Anyway, that's a rabbit trail I could go down for a long time.

Actually, this did start a little late. About 20 minutes to be exact. I'm not sure if it had to do with the poor folks who got stuck in traffic, or it was just more of that fine arena management (sarcasm).

We'll never come back here again. Our drive was from just east of Birmingham. I'll just go to a place where there's multiple parking options, and you don't have a "Keystone Cops" version of parking attendants, and door screener. People work hard for their money, and deserve much better than what you...

I attended a Pierce The Veil show here recently. I've been to tons of concerts in the pit and this place is highly unprofessional and unprepared for concerts. In the pit it's normal to provide water for concert goers so they don't dehydrate and pass out. There were people BEGGING for water. One woman who worked there looked at them, smirked, laughed, and said "I ain't got any" and walked off to talk to someone else for a bit. She then walked to the far left to a table sitting to the side, saw water bottles, she stood there for a minute, grabbed 2 bottles of water, and WALKED AWAY UP THE STAIRS. Later, the same people who were begging for water all night got told by security that they can't hand water out unless you're passed out on the floor, the girl said she was about to pass out (we were on the barricade) and she was told to go to the concession stand. He then walked away. Another young girl nearly passed out and was shaking in the floor, the security guard came over, stood at the barricade, and just stared at her and didn't do a single thing, and walked away. The same exact thing happened later on that night with a different person. The security here is SO BAD that BAND MEMBERS from PTV noticed the fans begging for water, so Jaime gave his water bottle to the girls via the security guard. Security tried to ignore him but he tried multiple times to get his attention and finally got the water to the fans. Later in the night a fan wanted to give Vic a flag, he tried to get security's attention to hand him the flag multiple times, he was ignored, he did the screw it I'll do it myself hand motion, stepped as far out as he could and got the flag from the fan himself. I have NEVER seen security so unprofessional, terrible. Under prepared, and lazy in my 14 years of artending concerts. Security are usually so with it, cool, prepared, and diligent with concerts. NOT THIS PLACE. If I could give it negative star rating I would. I will go 8 hours away versus the one hour it takes me to get here. God awful all the way around....

My wife and I drove up from Bowling Green for R.E.O. Speedwagon. We bought our tickets quite a while ago, and literally counted down the days before the show. To say that we were disappointed would be an understatement. We had seats in section 115. Row T. The view was real good. That was all. There was ZERO traffic management. None. It was at least 30 minutes from the end of the line of traffic to the gig. At least. The entry process was chaos. Metal detectors unfortunately are a part of life nowadays. The operators had very little skill. The process was very long. There was ONE concession stand on the busiest level of the building. The wait was 10 minutes to get a beer. If you went as Loverboy was on stage. Between the acts? Forget it. Now the big problem. The audio was crap. I realize the touring act is responsible for front of house audio, but it was awful. No definition of instruments at all. One could not separate guitar out of the mess, the vocals were so far in the back of the mix that they were almost inaudible. Basically a mid range mush. We hoped that the headliner would be way better. Nope. A crappy mid range mudpuddle for a front of house mix. Absolutely terrible . We left midway into the second song. A 2.5 hour drive up to be absolutely dissatisfied with the entire experience at Corbin arena. If you're gonna run with the big dogs you gotta get off the porch. Plan for every event to sell out. Open beer kiosks around the mezzanine. Build a comprehensive parking plan. Work with local law enforcement on a traffic plan. Please. Your building is very nice. Wide open seating views from every section. But if it is a challenge to go to a show,...