First look at The Prospect Building in Bristol ahead of its opening

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The Prospect Building will be opening tomorrow (September 28) with an Overmono concert.  The venue located at 45 Feeder Road in St Philips spans across 25,000 square feet featuring two distinct performance spaces and will be operated by AMAAD, the team behind internationally renowned festivals such as Junction 2 and Love Supreme.  Room One boasts a cutting-edge sound system developed in collaboration with L-Acoustics, featuring K2 and KARA II speakers, alongside immersive laser mapping and cutting-edge visual technology, elevating the overall experience for both artists and audiences. Room Two offers an intimate setting with 6-point surround sound.  Will Harold, co-founder of AMAAD, told BristolWorld more about the venue and upcoming events.

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00:00outside the Prospect building which we will be opening to the public tomorrow

00:04for an electronic music concert. Let's go inside to find out what Bristol's new

00:09biggest venue has to offer.

00:11Yeah so we open tomorrow on Saturday and the first show is with

00:16Over Mono, it's an electronic music show. The following week there's a drum and

00:20bass event with D&B All-Stars and quickly after that we've got Floating

00:25Points and Daphne playing. There's a real mix across the whole sort of

00:29electronic spectrum and it'll run all the way through to the beginning of

00:32December and it's open most Saturdays. We're a daytime venue so most of our

00:37events will finish by 10pm, they'll start at about midday so hopefully

00:41there's less impact on the neighbours around us and it means that

00:45everyone can have a good time and get off home safely. So we have, I mean for

00:49this run of shows particularly, this is an electronic music series so we've got

00:55a new stage set up in there, there's a big sound installation, there's

00:58lights, there's lasers, there's video mapping, so there's a whole sort of

01:03big technical setup. I think that it's a really exciting thing for us to

01:07have the capacity, we can fit you know three and a half thousand people in the

01:10main room here which is I think it's a size that Bristol hasn't had for a

01:14little while. We're really trying to create a space that is really versatile

01:18so we can use it for everything from music events to festival setups,

01:22live shows, we've got a really exciting announcement about some circus that's

01:25coming in, there's shows for kids and families so a lot of the work we've been

01:29doing is just you know behind the scenes preparation to make it a really

01:32versatile space. I think in terms of the the building side of things it's been

01:36it's been relatively straightforward, I think the biggest challenge has been

01:39time for us, you know we're trying to achieve a lot in quite a short

01:43period of time so scheduling and that kind of thing is it is difficult but you

01:47know we've been we've been really well supported, we've got an amazing team here

01:50and it's been it's been really enjoyable to work with them and we're

01:53working with a lot of a lot of suppliers from Bristol, people who used

01:56to work at the old prop yard space as well so it's just been great to kind of

02:00like build a team that is delivering great things here. With anything new

02:04when you're delivering something new there's always unknown and I think that's

02:07that's one of the big challenges but I think we really relish that and there's

02:09also opportunity there. I think we're looking forward to bringing the

02:14inside space to life this weekend and then but also the space around us here

02:19this outside courtyard is really versatile and you know I think when we

02:22will hopefully be delivering things like food festivals, events for children

02:26and families that sort of thing as well.

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