It doesn’t seem to matter how many demo songs we put on our website or YouTube; potential customers, venues etc still ask for a bloody CD! So we decided to bite the bullet and do some recording in a proper studio. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
A pleasant food pub with a reasonable space to set up, good area for the audience too. Avoid putting the bass and drums in the alcove; it booms horribly in there. Playing times normally 9 – 11pm, but late access due to the restaurant normally means 9:30 to 11:30pm.
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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!