Much of the club’s immediate success is attributable to the explosion of kinetic energy witnessed by punters on the opening weekend, when they queued down the street to experience Leeds’ latest venue. The installation was carried out by Jonathan Reece’s Harrogate-based Funtime Music. The sound and lighting specialists have a history of installing owner, Chris Edwards’ clubs - such as Space in Leeds and Birdcage - and were asked to assist in the conversion of the building previously trading as Po Na Na (which they had also installed). Dave Parry confirmed: "There are three zones, with two music rooms - a main room, a mezzanine level and bar level off the main dancefloor - and we have followed a similar scheme to Room 2 at fabric."
Thus control of the system is under the command of a pair of BSS Audio 9088ii/LL Soundwebs and 9010 Jellyfish programmable remote, with the Soundweb files held by Dave Parry at his office in fabric. The show can be reprogrammed at will and the files sent to the club by email. Inputs on the DSP’s are assigned to the main and mezzanine left/right systems (and DJ), while outputs on the first Soundweb address the main and DJ system, and on the second, the sound in the Bar & Mezzanine.
Dave Beer, who runs DAD Promotions with David Elliott and Antony Georgallis, says: "After three months of solid research we have chosen what we believe to be one of the best performing and technically advanced sound and processing systems in the world, which we feel is critical to the success of the club. At the end of the day we've been doing this for 10 years of worldwide intensive clubbing. We're sure we know what we want to create and we think we know what we're doing by now!"
Rehab is described by the promoters as "a tongue in cheek concept aimed to rehabilitate the so called post-chemical generation." Meanwhile, sister venue Space is temporarily closed and will be relaunched later this year.
(Lee Baldock)
