Going clubbing

Barry Fox heads along to Ronnie Scott’s in London to find out how the legendary live music venue has revamped its sound system, and why it’s in a ‘war of attrition’ with drummers…

Big Hi-Fi’ is a neat way to describe a clean and powerful sound system used to assist live sound in a music club or small hall. BHF does not come cheap or easy, which is why so many music venues wreck music. The Ronnie Scott’s jazz and rockishpop club in London’s Soho has recently been refurbished and I kept thinking the words ‘Big Hi-Fi’ when I went to one of the re-opening events – the premiere of Inferno 67, an extraordinary jazz theatrical show by trumpeter/bandleader/arranger/composer Guy Barker. TAKING CONTROL A few days later I went back to talk with Technical Director Miles Ashton about the refurbed sound system that had done Barker’s big band music so proud. Ashton thinks of the Scott club as now having ‘a studio control…

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