The room the bands stopped bringing speakers to.
Harry’s reopened in April 2025 after a long refurbishment, next door to The White Horse, which we had finished the year before. The ask was straightforward and difficult: a bar that could hold a proper live act on a Saturday night, and still be run by whoever happened to be on shift.
The ceiling was the problem. There was no height for speakers hung the usual way and no depth on stage to lose them in. So we turned the array on its side: a slim six-metre run above the stage, with the bass built into the wall behind the band. Nothing hangs into the room and nothing stands on the floor.
The bar, the television areas and the beer garden each have their own sound, balanced so a match can be on in one corner while music plays in another. The DJ setup lives on a trolley: wheel it anywhere in the building, give it a socket and a network point, and it plays through the main system.
One large screen anchors the main room, with smaller ones for sport, karaoke and signage. Sound and picture are switched from the same place, so nothing ever drifts out of step with anything else.
Lighting, heating and air conditioning sit on the same system as the rest. When the first member of staff turns the alarm off in the morning, the lights come up, the screens wake and the music starts. Setting the alarm at night puts the whole building to bed.
The acts that used to arrive with a van full of speakers now arrive with guitars. Staff run the room without thinking about it, and nobody has had to ring us on a Saturday.
Photographed after handover.
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