The Flapper Pub

Situated on Kingston Row between the ICC and NIA, The Flapper is one of the leading independent live music venues & pubs in Birmingham. It has been labelled by NME as ‘the epicentre of Birmingham’s Indie scene.’

The picturesque canal side pub offers two floors for entertainment: a large capacity main bar upstairs, and a gig room downstairs which has featured bands from local to national level with the likes of the Editors, Pigeon Detectives, We Are Scientists and KT Tunstall having performed there, to name just a few. Both of these spaces will be utlised during ArtsFest.

Venue Specific Information

The Flapper Pub
(Cambridge Wharf, Kingston Row, B1 2NU)

Availability:

Saturday 8th September: 14.00 – 22.30
Sunday 9th September: 14.00 – 22.30

(Please note that these times are provisional at this stage and may be subject to change).

Stage Size:

Main bar (upstairs) is approximately 2 metres by 3 metres

Gig room (downstairs) is approximately 5 metres by 3 metres

(Please note that both performance areas are raised platforms which do not have wheelchair ramp access available).

Audience Capacity:

Main Bar: 150+
Gig Room: 150

Equipment / Facilities Available:

Main Bar:

- Small vocal PA system with mixer and speakers and channels for input

- Vocal and instrumental microphones

- I-Pod playback (through the desk)

- Chairs

Gig Room:

- LS9 16 PA system with 24 channel mixer, various speakers and onstage monitors

- 4 way monitor mix

- PA is EV with a double 128 sub woofer and mid-high box each side

- 8 x sm58 microphones

- 1 x d112 microphone

- 3 x e604 microphones

- 2 x condenser microphones

- 3 x active DI box

- Backline – guitar combo amplifier, bass guitar amplifier and drum kit
(Please note that all drum breakables will have to be provided by the artists, the venue will supply the drum skeleton only).

- CD playback through PA

- Chairs

(Please note that the venue will not have a piano, DJ, projection or screening facilities available during ArtsFest).

Lighting:

- Standard stage lighting

Staffing:

There will be a sound technician at the venue in addition to a Duty Manager and bar staff. An ArtsFest Volunteer Venue Officer will be in charge of each room on behalf of ArtsFest and will liaise with all artists before the event and on the day.

Additional Notes:

The Flapper is an over 18’s venue and no underage performers or audience members will be allowed in.

Changing facilities are not available at this venue.

Venue Access:

For artists bringing equipment or instruments with them that they wish to drop off by vehicle, they will be able to do this by pulling up in the loading bay outside the venues side entrance on Cambridge Wharf. The side entrance leads onto the back of the downstairs performance area. Space in the loading bay is limited and artists will be asked to remove their vehicle as soon as they have unloaded.

All floors in the Flapper are via stairs; however wheelchair users who are audience members can access the pub via the band loading entrance which will take them to the lower ground floor of the pub and where they will have access to the bar, toilets and courtyard / beer garden (smoking areas). There is no lift or stair lift in the venue.