The headline figure includes the room, the house PA and lighting rig, two engineers for the whole call, a duty manager, two SIA-badged door staff, box office staffing if you are selling tickets, and both bars run by our own team. It does not include catering, PRS, a piano tuner, or any hire stock we have to bring in for a rider we cannot meet — and if that last one applies we will tell you before you sign, with the actual invoice from the hire company rather than a marked-up figure. There is no minimum bar spend and no charge for the licence extension on a wedding. What we do ask is that nothing gets fixed to the plasterwork and that nobody moves the maple.

You ring or send the form below and Esme comes back inside two working days with whether the date is free and what it would cost — a real figure, not a range. If it looks right, come and walk the room; we do that in the evening so you can see it lit. A hire agreement follows with the price, the times and the crew list on one page, and a quarter of the fee holds the date. On the day, Wilf is in from the get-in until the last flight case goes back on the truck, and the duty manager stays until the building is locked. We invoice the balance the following week. In thirteen years we have never once moved a booked hire to take a better offer, and we are not about to start.