Loading ...Some of you are aware of a place I call the Bat Cave. Some of you have even visited! It’s where J-Cloth practices, or should I say practised…
The lads who own the place are closing the doors. They’ve apparently been hit with a big rates bill that they just can’t afford and so have decided to wind the company down. We’re all completely gutted. The BatCave was a second home to most of us. The studio bit we spent a long weekend (not to mention a fair whack of money) soundproofing and you could hear nothing outside the building because of that. We often worked out there will 3 or 4 am and it bothered nobody.
Just last week we had got all our recording setup figured out after several long weeks of tweaking this and that and re-wiring both the sound desk and the ProTools PC attached to the DigiDesign desk. I will now have to spend Wednesday (when I get back from the States) clearing my gear out of the Cave and trying to squeeze as much as possible into my tiny flat. I have my big amp, my effects board + pedals, 3 guitars, a computer, various books and DVDs (we have an extensive library built up over the last year). We also have to find place for our PA, 2 bass-bins, 2 speakers, all the cabling that goes with that, 4 MASSIVE stage curtains that are used for sound proofing on the walls, various bits of furniture (tables, desks, couches), a TV, some computer monitors, another 2 PCs, all sorts of stage equipment odds and ends, etc, etc – the list goes on and on…
Miserable doesn’t even begin to come close to describing how I feel about this whole thing, but I’m trying not to let it ruin my holiday.
So if anyone knows of a warehouse/big room somewhere in the Dublin area that we could rent, please let me know. As it stands, we have 24/7 access to this place which suits us well, so that’d be ideal, but not completely essential. It has to be somewhere that’ll just be us though. A shared studio is too expensive and restrictive.
I hate when shit like this happens 