They must be having a giraffe. Obviously the room is available or they wouldn't quote a price to begin with, but they would rather have it stand empty than make some money.
Good luck with that business model.
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They must be having a giraffe. Obviously the room is available or they wouldn't quote a price to begin with, but they would rather have it stand empty than make some money.
Good luck with that business model.
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A fancy Italian restaurant?Originally Posted by RichB
Are we talking about the same venue as the one last year, Rich, in what seemed like in the middle of a dodgy-looking housing estate? As much as the pub we were in was fine for our purposes, I doubt the surrounding area would have the required clientele to make a "fancy Italian restaurant" pay!
Anyway, hope you get something else sorted soon
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No mate, I'm talking about the Windmill, the one just off the A19 where we held previous NEBO events.A fancy Italian restaurant?
Are we talking about the same venue as the one last year, Rich, in what seemed like in the middle of a dodgy-looking housing estate? As much as the pub we were in was fine for our purposes, I doubt the surrounding area would have the required clientele to make a "fancy Italian restaurant" pay!
Anyway, hope you get something else sorted soon
Marco.
I am starting to worry that NEBO brings with it the kiss of death for these places as the last one is now shut indefinitely and the previous one where nobody was happy with the sound has been demolished.
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They took our comments about the acoustics to heart, then?
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So it would seem! Either that or we damaged the foundations whilst middle aged moshing to that lash up system playing ZZ Top.
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Fate playing its cards eh... sure there are plenty likely venues for it. Hoteliers cant all be nobs
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I'm hoping for evidence to prove it. I won't be able to check out any prospective venues this weekend as there are two landmark birthday celebrations in the family and I'm likely to be drunk/hungover most of it.
Next weekend when Mrs B is back from her work trip we've got several days off so I'll take her out for lunch a few times with ulterior motives of checking out venues.
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Ah, I getcha now...
Ha - love your lateral thinking. Lucky her!
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Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
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Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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