Stage

-Meduim size and height bordered by 3 walls

-Rebuilt in Jan 99 to 18 ft deep by 20 ft wide by 2 1/4 ft high, 8 1/4 ft to ceiling.

-No drum riser, carpeted stage

Hosted the likes of The Rolling Stones, Tragically Hip, Blue Rodeo, Bryan Adams, Willie Nelson, Son Volt, Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, Golden Smog, Big Sugar, The Strokes, Nickleback, Guided by Voices, RL Burnside, Soundtrack of Our Lives, Elvez, Cowboy Junkies, Stompin Tom Connors, Wilco, Los Lobos, Dick Dale, Link Wray, Watchmen, Sloan, Spirit of the West, Live, Everclear, Foo Fighters, Ash, Cat Power, Hi-Llamas, Apples in Stereo, Super Furry Animals, Cowboy Junkies, Junior Brown, Neko Case, The Sadies, etc…

Load In/Parking/Gear

-Standard 6 pm load in through rear of venue, double door loading through Backstage/Emergency Exit. ‘No stage hands required’ kind of load in and exit direct onto dance floor and side of stage. Ramp provided with no stairs

-Passenger van parking, or van w/U-Haul, in safe, lighted lot. Tour bus parking across street in back alley slightly past venue with wheels on top of sidewalk. 1st 2 cars on RHS are exclusive to restaurant next door.

-Guitar techs set up on stage behind amps or in hallway backstage

-Road cases back in van, or in backstage hallways, underneath stage, or in dressing rooms

Speaker System

-Super squeaky clean ‘Roots Music’ sound, i.e. can hear every vocal syllable to every guitar lick

-Adamson MH 225, 2 mid high cabinets per side. 10 inch compression drivers, horn loaded mid-range, DH 1A 2 inch compression drivers, horn loaded high frequency

-Adamson 2 by 18 inch front loaded bass enclosures, 2 per side

-High powered Crown DC 300-2, mids crest Ca-6, lows crest CA-12, X-2

Front of House

-Located smack in middle of room, ¾’s back, 30 feet from stage

-32 Ch GL-3000 Allen & Heath console w/8 aux sends

-stereo 1/3 octave GE-30 EQ’s, 2 Lexicon LXP-1 reverbs, Delta Lab delay, 1 Quad Drawmner gate, Symmetrix 501 compressor, Drawner Dl-241 compressor, CD player, and cassette

Monitors

-Clean on stage monitor sound

-Two drum wedges & 3 FOS wedges, side fills not necessary!

-FOH 4 mixes, 4 Ch EQ’s

FOH technician supplied and contact for production supplier

-Standard call 6:15 PM, FOH Tech wires stage after crew set-up. Rick Boffo-Pro Audio schedules techs and provides extra equipment @Cost at 416-726-8602

-House techs Include Kippy Gillis Wed, Thr-Sat (New Meanies, Johnny Fave, Hopping Penguins) and Brian McCullogh Mon-Tues (Lee's, The Strap)

Subs: Adam (The Drake)

Lighting

-Very minimal as most of our artists prefer basic, if in fact, any, or very little Lighting…8 Ch board w/2K dimmers per Ch, 20 Par 64/56 500 watt cans. assorted gels. 2 ladders in backstage. Artist supplies tech! We do NOT have a house light tech!

24 hrs options - extra show costs or artist expensed options and upgrades

-Separate monitor mixes-board, 4-6 mixes w/12, 16, or 24 Ch, $214-$321, w/our house tech doing monitors

-Early tech calls before 6 pm at $15.00/hour CASH to $100.00 max. Lighting techs $75-$125.

-Pro stagehands at $100-150 per call, based on hours, and will do loading, stage, backstage security, runner from load in to out!

-Pro loaders $50.00 for each load

-Merch person $60.00 minumum with TIPS for high percentage sales!