Music Event Management: Different Sized Venues

Different Sized Venues:

Craufurd Arms

This venue targets a demographic of people local to the area and the regulars of the pub. This means it is aimed slightly more towards men than women, and in general people over 30. They usually host local bands in the smaller pub section of the venue, and have up and coming touring acts which are starting to get established in the main hall. In general, the music leans more towards heavy rock/metal/punk music with acts playing at the venue including Slaves, Sleaford Mods and Baby Godzilla. They advertise heavily on social media, with an official venue website and social media accounts. They also put up a lot of posters in the pub and local area, as well as use local papers.

They have their own large PA system including monitoring, and also a lighting rig which they use for all the acts that perform.

The venue has its own bar staff and security/door staff which deal with the gig goers, and has house sound/lighting technicians. Promoters will work at the venue to try and sell tickets and bring in a crowd, because the acts that play here don’t have as many fans so will need help selling tickets

London Roundhouse

This is a mid size venue with around 3000 capacity. It has a mixture of standing and seating, and puts on a full range of acts from all genres. It also hosts events that aren’t just music, with dance and poetry events having been held there in the past.

Because it is a bigger venue to the Craufurd it has a bigger PA system with monitoring, with more than one stack of speakers on each size. Also due to the size of the venue and its higher ceiling, some of the PA speakers are suspended above the ground and curved to reach more of the audience. They also have more of a professional and bigger lighting rig which gives more of an added effect to a stage performance. Acts that play here can be well established such as the recent performances from artists like Mogwai, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Public Enemy, so will likely bring a lot of their own equipment and crew and not be as reliant on venue promotion. At the same time, less established acts like Savages and Mac DeMarco also play here, so will rely more upon house equipment and crew as well as need help promoting the gig from promotion crew at the venue.

In terms of staff, the Roundhouse has security and door staff, bar staff for the bar in the venue, sound and lighting engineers, stage hands and ushers for the seating section. Promoters at the venue will help try and sell tickets, which is needed more for the smaller acts who might not have as much of a following.

National Bowl

This is a very large venue with a capacity of around 65,000 people and is outdoors with a grassy surface and is an all standing venue. Due to this it usually only hosts events in the summer months when the weather is more reliable. It has acts from all genres, and in the past has played host to dance music festivals, rock concerts like Pearl Jam and private events.

It has an extremely big PA system which is required due to the size of the venue and it being outdoors. There are several main speaker rigs near the stage, as well as further suspended rigs all around the venue to make sure everyone can hear. There are also big screens which are required to give people all around the arena a good view as the people at the back are so far away from the stage. They also have a large professional lighting rig to make every show as entertaining as possible. Due to the fact that the acts playing at this venue are bigger and more established, they may bring more of their own equipment like lighting, and a lot more of their own road crew such as sound engineers and lighting technicians who will work with the staff at the venue.

The staff at the National Bowl will include a lot of security and door staff to deal with all of the people attending, sound and lighting technicians, stage assistants, film crew for the big screens and catering staff due to the venue selling food and drink. More staff in general are needed all round to help deal with the higher number of fans, and the bigger stage and sound system requires more assistants that are more professional. The venue doesn’t need to promote its concerts very much because all of the acts that play here are very famous and high profile like Queen, Green Day and the Foo Fighters and will therefore be able to bring a crowd of their own fans to the venue without help from other promoters.

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