Get distinct records with a join left - sql

Question

I know there are a lot of threads like that on SO but i still can't figure out what's wrong with my code. My models are:
User
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :events
end
Event
class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :venue
end
Venue
class Venue < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :events
end
What i'm trying to do is to get all the recent venues used by a user (through the events he have created). My activerecord chaing is:
User
.first
.events
.joins(:venue)
.select('venues.id, venues.name, venues.address, events.beginning_at')
.uniq('venues.id')
and it produces the following query:
SELECT DISTINCT(venues.id), venues.name, venues.address, events.beginning_at
FROM "events" INNER JOIN "venues" ON "venues"."id" = "events"."venue_id"
WHERE "events"."user_id" = $1
ORDER BY "events"."beginning_at" ASC [["user_id", 1]]
However, what it gives me is a quite "randomish" list of recently used venues. ATM all the events are assigned to the same venue and the query above gives me ALL of those venues (so it goes down to one venue multiplied by number of all events that user created). What's more interesting - that query gives me 9 results but when i remove the DISTINCT method, i get 20 results (while there is just one venue in my db)
Can you give me any tip on what am i doing wrong?