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I gotta say, despite dropping a loose valve in the first set, this is a really good venue! Read the rest of this entry »

As we approached Poole Quay and caught a glimpse of the harbour I thought “this doesn’t bode well for a packed pub”: Slate-grey water reflecting the leaden skies, lashed by sheets of cold rain as serried ranks of forlorn waves followed the wind’s perpetual march… Read the rest of this entry »

Every so often a gig comes along that really buzzes, everyone’s on a high and the evening goes in to that mental list of great gigs. But unfortunately the converse is sometimes true, a gig that gets filed in the memory bank for all the wrong reasons.

We call these Chicken Wire gigs, from the Blues Brother’s film. Read the rest of this entry »

Restaurant, Function Venue, very posh indeed.

A cathedral-like space that stands in testimony to its former use as home to the presses that once produces the Bournemouth Evening Echo, the art deco grade II listed building that is the Print Room proved to be the venue for one of the most enjoyable functions FireBird have done to date. Sure, it’s work but it’s no bad thing to enjoy a gig (professionally of course) and the members and guests of the organisation holding the event were some of the liveliest and friendliest we’ve entertained.

Sound.
With a tiled floor, hard walls (one a huge window) and a very very high ceiling, as one would expect the ambience of the room surpasses the best Lexicon reverb unit (although it’s not as programmable). Volume levels were minimal to start with and still the sound crashed and echoed around this cavernous space. Things improved mightily when the audience, as one, left the tables and came to dance, where they stayed!