Prices

We’re now excited to be trialling a new pricing system! As follows! 

• 6pm-10pm, and all day weekends, is the same low low $25 per hour you’ve always paid (by which we mean it’s about the same price as everybody else as far as we can work out) 
• Before 6 on weekdays is now down to the new even lower price of $20 per hour

Don’t forget that Mon-Thurs we run two evening booking slots; 6-8 and 8-10. 

Payment is on invoice following a booking, and is due before your booking.

Terms and Conditions, AKA Rules

These are the rules. You are expected to follow them. The rules exist so we can keep running this place as an awesome rehearsal venue for Wellington musicians. Complaints from neighbours, high costs of broken gear or trashed furniture, and similar tragedies, will just stop us doing that. We’ll be upset. You’ll be upset. Nobody wants that. So please follow the rules. If you don’t follow the rules, we reserve the right to refuse future bookings, cancel existing bookings (including mid-session), charge you for any costs incurred, and be cross.

1. The main rule is to treat the place with respect. We would say ‘like your own’, but some of our gear gets pretty rough treatment from us. So we’re going to say ‘like a close friend lent it to you as a favour and will be pretty miffed if it doesn’t go back to her more or less in the same condition that she gave it to you’. All other rules flow naturally from this rule. But don’t stop reading.
2. This is a rehearsal room. It is important you hold this concept front and centre in your mind. Treasure it, like a precious gem of wisdom gifted to you from the most munificent yogis of history (not including the bear). It means a few things –

• Turn it down. Seriously. This is a reasonably soundproof-ish space, but it doesn’t mean you can make intolerable amounts of noise just for the fun of it. It’s supposed to be for working on your music to get it right, not cranking it to 11 because hell yeah let’s stick it to the man. If you have to turn it up that loud for it to sound good, you’re not doing it right. Also, you might melt the PA, and then we’ll make you pay for it. And when we start getting noise complaints from the neighbours, we’ll get angry. You wouldn’t like us when we’re angry.
• Close all the doors. This is pretty important for keeping our neighbours happy as it minimises the noise. There are four (4) doors that should be shut – the outside door, the roller door, and the two doors to the space itself. Shut all of them before making a noise. Any noise. That includes that extended showy full volume drum solo masquerading as a ‘warm up’ while you wait for the bass player to get out of the pub.
• Wouldn’t it be awesome to have, like, a party with some friends and get some drinks in and have a jam? No. No it wouldn’t. We understand that you’re keen to invite Dave to come hang out because, y’know, Dave might come with Martin, and Martin’s pretty cute, and if we have a few drinks on and the sound’s turned up and lights are low, they might… STOP. STOP RIGHT THERE. You know where this story ends? Dave won’t bring Martin, he’ll bring his idiot cousin Anne, and her boyfriend Pete, and they’ll both turn up half cut with who the hell else knows in tow, and then smash out chopsticks on the piano for a solid hour before spilling their Woodstock and Cola onto the mixer. It will not be good times. We will make you pay for the mixer.

4. Having said that, working musicians definitely need a drink while they rehearse. We don’t have a problem with alcohol in the room. Just drink responsibly, tidy up after yourselves, and don’t tip beer into the mixer.
5. For God’s sake, don’t tip beer into the mixer. It’s probably the most valuable thing in here.
6. And just to reiterate – the room isn’t for anything other than rehearsing bands. Definitely not parties, gigs, social events, sordid encounters, public debates, flash sales, rodeos, or any other form of human activity that doesn’t involve musicians working with other musicians to make their music sound better.
7. Your booking time is completely inclusive of everything. That means you get the key when your booking time starts, and have to put it back before your booking time ends, and everything else needs to fit in between those two times. Don’t try turning up early, or pushing it for those extra five minutes – you might be stealing somebody else’s time. You wouldn’t like it if it happened to you. We’re guessing. If you need more time, book more time. And out means out – it means all your gear and people and rubbish and everything no longer in the room by the time the clock strikes the end of your session. In sum – your booking time includes your load in and load out times.
8. There are neighbours. This is, believe it or not, also a place where people live nearby. Be nice to them! They’re putting up with your rehearsals. Don’t make them put up with you all screaming your heads off for ten minutes directly outside the room in a violent post-mortem of that shambles of a rehearsal. For the record, the drummer really was dragging. There now. That’s settled. You can all go home. Quietly.
9. Seriously though, there are neighbours. Please treat them with respect in every way you are able to treat them with respect. Be quiet, polite, sensitive, unthreatening, don’t drive your trolley of gear through the middle of the Mexican restaurant’s dining area, all of those things.
10. No smoking. That means you. And yes, we will notice. If you do need a smoke, somewhere away from the front door would be ideal, just because the residents in the alley don’t really like it when they have to push through massive smoky crowds of strangers to get to their homes. The loading dock round the corner is ideal for smoking. Vaping, on the other hand, we can live with, provided it’s not against the law and the rest of the band doesn’t mind, and you don’t turn the place into some sort of unusable foggy vape sauna. We don’t actually know what the law is. It may be illegal right now. But if it’s not, we don’t mind it.