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Live concert reports, written the same night, only from rooms under four hundred capacity.

Closing night at the Lantern Rooms

A hundred and eighty people, four bands, and a landlord who turned the lights on at eleven because the licence said so and there was no reason left to argue about it.
Closing night at the Lantern Rooms

Hollow Parade at the Brayfield

Four hundred people, a new record two weeks old, and a band who have worked out that the quiet songs are the ones that land in a room this size.
Hollow Parade at the Brayfield

First show: Marguerite Tide

Twenty-two minutes, six songs, and a guitar that went out of tune in the third one and stayed there. Unit 9, on a Tuesday, to about forty people.
First show: Marguerite Tide

Three hundred capacity is the whole argument

Below it a band loses money and learns something. Above it a band makes money and stops. The room in between is where everything we care about happens, and it is the room that is closing.
Three hundred capacity is the whole argument