hi, I'm doing a radio programme on Band rooms/rehearsal spaces. We have Auckland and CHch covered, but the issue seems to be in Wellington that they just don't exist anymore. Do they? apart from the Surgery? please any leads appreciated. Or even thoughts on the issue of shared rehearsal spaces.
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Kirsten
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Hiya Kirk, There are 3 rooms
Hiya Kirk,
There are 3 rooms in the basement of the Wellington Arts Centre (Toi Poneke?) building. I managed to get storage space there just when they were starting up, so it is brilliant for my bands... we just show up, wheel our gear into whichever room we've booked that night, then wheel it into storage and stack it up after practice.
It would be a dream to have a room where we could leave gear set up all the time... but I don't know of anywhere where that would be possible (without heaps of money.)
The biggest problem (I reckon) is the fluro lighting, white walls and office building style roof... it is entirely too much like being in at work for my liking. But it is a council thing, so that kind of explains it.
Noise does bleed between rooms quite a lot... but you can't hear it when you're playing your songs, so it isn't a huge problem... it is quite bad when the other people using the facility are playing endless so-cal punk covers. That shit should be banned.
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Man, we used to have a
Man, we used to have a permanent space down below the YMCA on Tory st ... oh wait I mean where the YMCA used to be, where that new Pak n Save is ... puke
In fact, we're still looking
In fact, we're still looking around for a space to set up some rooms permanently... there's not a lot of spaces around anymore