Venue Information
The Clinton Arms
Retford
 
 
Venue Name: The Clinton Arms
Opening Times: 21:30:00 to 23:30:00
Address: 24, Albert Road, Retford, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, DN22 6JD
Directions: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc=DN22 6JD
Comments: Good venue, bigger than it looks. One of the nicest landlords in the business and one of the keenest to keep live music at his pub! Has a reputation for Blues bands, but is putting more rock on. Would score higher apart from the neighbours!
Rating: ****½
Landlord: Paul
Telephone: 01777 702703
Website: http://www.ents24.com/web/venue/16894/Retford/Clinton_Arms.html
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Live: Yes - Entire room is sound proofed.
Stage: Yes - A compact floating stage on which the bass PA bins sit . It's fairly narrow but quite deep
Carpet: No - The area is carpeted, but you're supposed to use your own over the top of it
Changing rooms: No
Stairs: No
In house PA: Yes - 3.5K amp rig; 1K foldback rig; 12 channel desk (2 channels reserved for CD player); decent amps, Eminence and Peavey Kappa speakers and vocal effects. Use of house system compulsory. Volume has to be kept down. Landlord's had to soundproof the entire plac
Lights: Yes - Par56 lighting (with sound-to-light if you want it)
Engineer provided: No - Paul sets it up and balances it for you, but after that you're on your own. Mixing desk is directly in-front of stage left PA!!
Points: RCD socket at the back of the room
Layout: Weird pub layout. Small room to play to, but there is another room further on where the pool table is. The bar area is over to the right of the main room
Restrictions: Noise!! There are neighbours, as a consequence the whole place is soundproofed. But you still have to keep the noise down