The next London #sonicmeet will be in Battersea at Sphere Studios‘ private bar, on Friday May 25 from 7pm.
As usual, a rowdy crew of music professionals will congregate to drink until the last tube home, and you’re invited. As well as four eye-watering studios, Sphere has a private lounge complete with a pool table and bar — and if you arrive early, you’re in for a chance of checking out some tasty equipment too.
The nearest tube stations are Clapham Junction and Imperial Wharf. From there, just stuff this address into your smartphone for directions:
2 Shuttleworth Road, Battersea, London, SW11 3EA
Follow @sonicmeet on twitter for updates on the night. See you there!
Sonicmeet returns to Shoreditch and the Strongrooms bar next Thursday, March 1, from 7pm.
We last met there in July, and it was a fantastic beer-up. Producers, engineers, journalists, distributors and startup folk stayed far later than planned for a weeknight, but it was worth the morning off.
If you’re not familiar with Strongrooms, it’s a very funky studio with an exceptional bar and garden. To find it, get the tube to Silicon Roundabout, a.k.a. Old Street station, and find the bar with the map below.
Follow the @sonicmeet twitter for updates on the night.
Sonicmeet 3 will be on September 23 from around 7:30pm at Sub Bubble Studios, a short walk from Wembley Stadium. The nearest tube is Wembley Park.
The group will congregate in their lounge area, complete with a drums and piano setup. Take a tour with house engineer and soncmeeter Tobin Jones, look out for the indoor skate park which doubles as a reverb chamber. Please, no broken arms. There’s no bar, so we’ll arrange beer.
To recap on our last event, we saw a great variety of audio folk at Strongrooms Bar. From engineers to distributors, journalists to startups, it was an engaging crowd.
Discuss the meet in the comments or on twitter with the #sonicmeet tag.
See you there!
The second #sonicmeet is booked at Strongroom Bar for Thursday 21st July from 8pm!
We’ll be in the downstairs area of the bar. If all goes to plan, there’s a fair chance the first ten to arrive will get a tour around the famous Strongroom studio, pending on availability. From then, drinks will be shared between those involved in audio until the wee hours.
This is probably a good time to recap on the first #sonicmeet, which proved to be a fantastic night. Around 15-20 engineers met in Soho for drinks, trading both personal and legendary studio stories, before an invite from one of our more experienced guests to their personal studio in the area. I’m not sure they’ll want to be named here, but it’s safe to say their generous wine servings and loud studio demos in one of the best equipped studios in the country went down a real treat.
Why is #sonicmeet 2 on a Thursday? Let’s say the pubs were too busy, and booking an appropriate venue proved quite difficult for a Friday night the first time around. Yes, it means going easy on the booze because we all work on a Friday, but the main point of #sonicmeet is to get to know fellow audio pros.
Click here for details of the #sonicmeet venue. The nearest tube stations are Old Street, Shoreditch High Street and Hoxton.
Friday 18th March, 8:30pm onwards, at The Crown And Two Chairmen pub in Soho.
It’s on the corner of Dean Street and Bateman Street, see the map below. Look out for the group trading studio stories.
Bring beer money and your favourite smartphone. No pub quiz I’m afraid, it’s a public venue. Feel free to pass the details to suitable audio loving company.
Tweet @sonicmeet if you have trouble finding the group on the night, and tag all discussion with #sonicmeet.
See you there!
#sonicmeet is an organised way for the group of pro audio twitter users who talk online to meet in person. The benefit is, we all have a slightly different network and can meet a couple of extra people we may have missed in the infinite twitter timeline. Social media has been a great opportunity to get to know each other, and to put this group in the same room with beer and pub games makes good sense.
Just to be clear, this isn’t a networking event -asking around for a job or talking like a salesman will just put off some visitors who are looking to get away from endless networking events and trade shows in their professional life.
Just relax, grab a beer, and enjoy the company!
We’re currently deciding a suitable venue and will be offering tickets to cover the cost of venue rental. The organisers will not profit from ticket sales. The alternative is sponsorship, but is seems like that could change the atmosphere a bit.
Update: There’s a couple of leads on suitable discrete venues that would be free, so give us a few days to investigate. This is all about making a night to remember!
What do you think? Please share your thoughts in the comments.
Friday March 18th, Soho, London. We liked it, so we put a ring on it. If you’re likely to attend, RSVP in the comments so we can get an idea on numbers. We’ll be renting a private venue (for a good reason), which may mean attendees contributing to the hire cost, but we’ll ensure this is reasonable. Look out for the address by following #sonicmeet on twitter.
The plan so far is a night of beery socialising and audio discussion, with plans to set up a specialist pub quiz. Although this is a meet for twitter users, there’s no harm in bringing a couple of friends if they work in audio and know their bits from their Hz.
Use the comment section to discuss the event and pitch ideas for the pub quiz. And if you happen to know an audio tech company who would be interested in sponsoring the event, even better!
Welcome! This is a simple site to support #sonicmeet. There are several ways you can keep track of events:
- Follow the discussions tagged with #sonicmeet on twitter.
- Follow the @sonicmeet twitter account.
- Subscribe to this blog.
Of course, you were smart enough to know that already. We’re engineers! Talking of which, I better take the opportunity to share an appropriate joke:
Why did the compressor fall over?
Because it had a soft knee.
Wahay! No? Well, help test the comments by sharing your best audio joke. No punchline is too nerdy for this crew.
