Occasion
A hockey club party
Spot
A corner of the clubhouse will do
Set-up
15 minutes, and just as quick to clear
Volume
You can still talk the match over
For clubs in Someren
In Someren we played at a hockey club party. Acoustically a clubhouse is not a hall but a box: a low ceiling, a smooth floor, glass on the pitch side. Everything bounces in there, so it takes very little to do too much.
Early in the evening people come in wearing their club jackets and mostly want to talk the match over. Music belongs underneath that: recognisable enough to have an opinion about, soft enough to order at the bar without shouting.
Once the tables move aside
At a club it works differently from a wedding. There is no dessert to give the signal: there is one song that gets a whole team on its feet at once, and after that the clubhouse is full. We do not have to reset anything for that.
More body can come in then, but in a clubhouse that becomes too much sooner than it would in a hall. At the bar a group always stays put who mainly want to catch up, and a club has a finishing time and usually neighbours. Whatever the committee agrees about that is our starting point.
A clubhouse where the first team and the parents of the juniors are singing the same song.
Frequently asked questions · Someren
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Yes, we need 1.5 × 2.5 metres and one socket. A corner by the bar or in front of the window is enough; no standing tables have to go out and no stage has to be built.
Not really. The cajón does the work of a full drum kit and three voices carry far enough to take a clubhouse with them. The difference from an amplified band is mainly that you can still hold a conversation at the bar.
Yes, and at a club that is often the most important thing. Tell us what time it has to be quiet and what volume has been agreed with the council or the neighbourhood, and we will play within it.
Yes. Someren, Asten, Deurne and Helmond are all within our half hour from Eindhoven. A clubhouse makes a fine venue for us: small enough for little amplification, big enough for a party.
Tell us what kind of evening it will be, how many members you expect and what time it has to be quiet.
