VACANCIES:
If you are interested in the following positions: Bar Staff, Glass Collectors, Fly promotions. Contact - mark@electricballroom.co.uk
VENUE HIRE
A legendary profile entertainment venue. The famous venue provides you with three floors of flexible space, suitable for almost any type of event music performances, showcases, fashion shows, club nights, and corporate parties.
For information on venue hire please contact: admin@electricballroom.co.uk or call 0207 485 9006
or fax 0207 284 075
CAMDEN’S LEGENDARY VENUE
Over the last 73 years, the Electric Ballroom has come to epitomise all that is Camden Town. Over the years it has played host to top musical talent such as U2, The Clash, Phil Lynott, The Boomtown Rats, Joy Division, The Smiths, Madness, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Public Enemy, Blur, Supergrass, Garbage and many more.
The Electric Ballroom dates back to the 1930’s when its current owner, Bill Fuller, took it over and opened it up as The Buffalo Club. It was a small place back then with the main entrance on Kentish Town Road. The same gate is still used for staff and deliveries and has been kept as a souvenir from the old days. An opportunity for expansion came during the war in 1941, when Camden Town Tube was bombed. Both the back of the Buffalo and the small side street beside it, which was called Dewsbury Terrace, were literally blown away. Bill then bought the whole site, and built the Buffalo up into a ballroom that could hold 2,000 people. Besides being a renowned social centre for many Irish immigrants it became hugely popular for its great music with bands like Joe Loss and The Clipper Carlton...
Stage size 4ft high x 30ft wide x 20ft deep (1.3m high x 9.2m x wide x 6.1m deep)
Stage to ceiling height 17feet (5.2m)
Production Offices are in dressing rooms (wireless available)
4 Dressing rooms, TWO SHOWER ROOMS
We supply towels (£30.00 laundry charge)
Shore power (£40.00)
Parking: Yard adjacent to auditorium accommodating 2 trucks, 3 to 4 cars (all must be removed to street before doors open (no restrictions on street after 6.30pm)
Load in: From yard to stage on same level
Merchandise stall charge £40.00
CAPACITY
1100
LIGHTING SPEC
12k par cans on back truss and 6 mac 500’s
12k par cans on mid truss and 4 mac 600’s
12k on front ladders
16k ACL’s on back ladders
6 mac 500’s and 4 source 4 profile spots on front truss
6 x floor cans
2 mac 500’s on spkr stacks
Tour hazer
Avolites Pearl 2008 desk
4 high end data flash strobes
Main System
Martin Wavefront 8 Speakers: 4 stacks per side (3xW8T, 1xW8S, 4xW8S)
QSC PLX series and Lab Gruppen amplifiers used throughout
Front of House
Soundcraft MH4 48 channel Mixing Desk
Klark Teknik DN360 graphic and XTA System controllers
10 Drawmer Compressors & 10 Drawmer Gates
2 Focusrite compressors
TC D-Two Delay
3 Yamaha Multi Effects units including SPX2000
Microphones
We have a full range of microphones and stands including Shure, Sennheiser and AKG
Kit mics include Shure Beta 52A, Beta91 & 56A, and AKG C451.
Also Audix kit set with D6, i5, D2 and D4
Instrument mics include Sennheiser e604 and MD421
Vocal mics include Shure SM and Beta58 and AKG D5
DI boxes are BSS actives
Monitors
Soundcraft SM12 48 channel Monitor Desk
The stage monitor system offers 10 bi-amped mixes through Martin LE700A wedges and H3T fills
