The Hotel California
Tranmere, Birkenhead
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Venue Name: The Hotel California
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Opening Times: 23:30:00 to 02:00:00
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Address: 2, New Chester Road, Tranmere, Birkenhead, Merseyside, United Kingdom, CH41 9AY
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Directions: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc=CH41 9AY
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Comments: Merseyside's top rock venue!! If you're one of the big-hitter club-bands, tribute bands, or indie bands, you should have a great night here. Not a venue for cover bands unless you're really special! The venue's, and Eric's, hospitality is legendary.
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Rating: ****
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Landlord:
Contact
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Telephone: 0151 666 1668
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Website: http://www.thehotelcalifornia.co.uk/home.php
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Agent:
Eric Harvey
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Contact: 0151 639 1414 / www.soundwavepromotions.com
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Live:
Yes - Time Stamp Update 14/1/06
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Stage:
Yes - Good sized stage facing the audience at the back of a fairly large room. Bass PA bins underneath don't half make your feet rumble
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Carpet:
No
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Changing rooms:
Yes
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Stairs:
No
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In house PA:
Yes - 16 channel system. Plenty of power, but quite simple. Surprising absence of compressors, gates and vocal effects
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Lights:
Yes - Decent rig including about 8 × MV250H moving head lighting effects modules. And Smoke! Engineer controls it for you
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Engineer provided:
Yes - "Chunky" does the job for you here. He likes bass, so you get a good live feel. Will step aside if you've brought your own sound-man.
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Points: All over the place
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Layout: Not quite sure what this place was, but it's a big venue with several rooms each featuring a different type of music. Concert room is oblong shaped
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