Tech Specs

Stage: 24ft x 14ft x 3ft steel deck, very strong and solid, with a black Marley surface. Plenty of headroom, 13ft at the rear rising to 22ft at the front.

Storage: behind the PA on either side of the stage, plus the small loading bay. Please keep fire exits on both sides of the stage clear.

Dressing room: one small room (10ft x 8ft) with tea and coffee, kettle, microwave, fridge, mugs, cutlery and crockery.

Merch: dedicated stall with hooks, lights and a desk in the main room.

Food: 8 takeaways within 100 yards of the front door (2 also eat in), plus a Sainsbury’s 4 minutes’ walk away.

Bar: full bar, draught lager and ale.

Midas M32 digital desk: 40 input channels, 32 Midas preamps and 25 mix buses.

Big black Court Audio boxes, fully loaded with the current equivalents of the original JBL drivers they were designed for (highs, mids and lows), 4 x 18″ subs under the stage and L Acoustic Mini centre fills. 105dB of warm, full sound at FOH with plenty of headroom.

• 12 x DI boxes
• 25+ assorted mics: Shure SM58s and SM57s, Sennheiser e605 clip ons, AKG D112 and C1000s
• 20+ mic stands, mostly Beyerdynamic

Controlled from the FOH desk. 6 mixes of good, loud monitors, usually drum fill, centre vocal, left and right (up to 9 if needed). 5 x Martin LE400c wedges, 1 x LE400 1×15 plus horn as drum fill. Speaker management by 3 x Behringer DCX2496, powered by BSS and TSA4700 amps.

Guitar

• Drive 30w acoustic combo
• Line 6 Spider III combo
• Crate 2×12 combo
• Marshall G series combo (8″)
• Marshall JMP 50w valve combo (very loud, talk to the house tech first)

Guitar cabs

Bring your own head.

• Marshall AVT412 200w 8 ohm 4×12
• Hughes & Kettner Attax 4×12, 8 ohm mono or 4 ohm stereo

Bass

• Peavey Mk 6 head and cab
• Ashdown Mag 410 (4×10) 8 ohm 450w
• Ashdown Mag 115 (1×15) 8 ohm 250w

Drums

Sonor Force 3007 five piece: 22″ kick, 8″ and 10″ rack toms, 14″ floor tom (16″ floor tom available). Cymbal stands, 2 hi hat stands, stool and hardware. Most drummers bring their own breakables, but we have a snare, pedal and cymbals if needed.

The rig is always being upgraded. Currently 10 x Thomas Pixel Par 90s (2 each side, 4 at the rear, 2 moving), controlled via ADJ myDMX 3.0. Plenty of decor and UV graphics around the room, run from the lighting desk.

Bright InFocus 1920×1080 projector filling the back wall of the stage, which is painted with highly reflective screen paint. HDMI from FOH, or from the stage if you tell the house tech in advance.

Trilite goalpost at the back of the stage, fixed to the back wall, 13ft wide and 12ft 6in high inside. A 12ft 6in fly bar on pulleys for backdrops, trimming at 12ft. Trilite front truss, 12ft above the floor and 23ft long. Zarges 12 rung A frame ladder.

4 x 13A sockets at the corners of the stage. 3 phase 63A via a red Ceeform socket in the cellar, about a 35m run to upstage left.