The Last Dinner Party issued a statement in support of their fans yesterday following reports of how male gig goers were treated at a show at The Engine Shed.

The latter have now issued a full statement and, err, it does kinda blame the fans.

“We pride ourselves and are committed to operating a safe, secure, inclusive and welcoming venue for all our guests… We are aware of reports on social media that the entry procedure utilised at The Last Dinner Party on September 28 fell short of our venue entry policy, which requires all attendees to be treated equally and subject to the same entry requirements.”

“We have today carried out a preliminary investigation, which indicates that after information was provided to our security team about incidents at previous The Last Dinner Party gigs, the venue management team made an ad-hoc change to our policy. Although this policy was changed with the right intentions, it is clear that this change resulted in the treatment of some guests, which was not acceptable, and The Engine Shed would like to fully apologise to anyone affected.”

They finished: “We have instigated an independent investigation that will review all of the reports and will make recommendations on actions to be taken which will be implemented by our Directors. As an urgent measure, we will also be implementing further staff training on our door entry policy to ensure that this cannot happen again.”

Good enough?