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HARD WORK PAYS OFF
AND WE WOULD KNOW! THE FORTRESS HAS BEEN LOVINGLY BUILT BY HAND, AND TO SPEC, BY OUR OWN TEAM WHO WORK THROUGHOUT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AND LOCAL LEEDS LIVE SCENE. WHETHER YOUR HERE TO SWEAT IT OUT ON A STAGE, BUILD A SCENE, OR FAMILIARISE YOURSELF WITH NEW RIG AND CREW ON YOUR INTERNATIONAL TOUR, THE FORTRESS IS HERE TO HELP.
STAGE REHEARSING...
Stage rehearsals are often overlooked by a lot of artists despite the massive benefits they provide for their live performances. Small room rehearsals do not translate well onto stages! Stage rehearsals provide artists with a large space, high ceilings, a good size stage, lighting package, front of house system, as well as industry standard desks and monitors. This allows artists to hone in their performances, engineers to build scenes, lighting designers to build and rehearse shows, and touring parties to familiarise themselves and troubleshoot their new packages before hitting the road.
At The Fortress we like to offer more so that everyone can make the most out of our facilities. We provide a qualified and experienced engineer with every booking who is capable of troubleshooting, giving live sound advice, and providing any assistance where needed, as well as providing a FOH and monitor mix if required. We also provide specific packages and sessions tailored for newer artists and engineers, as well as for tour hardened nomads, continue reading for more information, or jump straight to our sessions page HERE...
Stage rehearsals tend to be much longer than standard rehearsals, and for some artists can last days or weeks or longer! This is why we offer full packaged riders for your session, as well as recreational areas to blow off some steam.
TECHNICAL ASPECTS
The Fortress will soon be releasing a detailed venue spec for you to get stuck into! Until then be safe in the knowledge that our stage rehearsal studio comes complete with guest CAT6 lines, passive and active monitoring systems, full FOH system split across five matrices, analogue outboard, house digital desk and interface, house microphone package, cabling, mic stands, universal DMX lines for touring consoles as well as access to our house lighting console, private secure parking and power for cars to busses. Keep posted for our continuing updates and upgrades.
WORK WITH US?
As a new space we have a very open to involving promoters with fresh ideas for the Leeds music scene. Please get in touch with us if you are interested in promoting and organising events using the contact details for Angus mentioned here...
We are also always open to engineers who are looking to expand their work. If you are an experienced sound engineer with tour management experience then please get in touch with Angus for more details...
FREQUENTY ASKED QUESTIONS...
We will soon be uploading some of the questions we've been receiving! Hold tight while we get all the questions and answers together for you, here, in one place...