Faith In Strangers
About Faith In Strangers
Faith In Strangers is a 300 capacity combined arts venue with a main focus on music, but a strong interest in everything else. Centered around our custom-built sound system ‘Poseidon’.
It’s an open-plan, one room space with iconic sunset seaview scenes across Margate’s kaleidoscopic skies.
Artistic Vision & Music Policy
Our aim is to build a community that inspires and supports artists, performers, and DJs in exploring their curiosities, experimenting with new styles, and finding fresh ways to honour heritage and classic influences. While rooted in a passion for electronic music, disco, rarities, and psychedelic or experimental sounds from around the globe, our music policy remains open and unrestricted. We focus on uncovering unheard music, sharing it, and crafting an atmosphere that transports our audience to new, exciting places.
Faith In Strangers is about the trust between people that creates moments of unity; Common ground for uncommon experiences. We give artists the room to experiment and shape these moments. We are not interested in generic, ‘crowd pleasers’ and music you could hear at any bar across the UK.
We platform a wide range of selectors, DJ’s and live acts, some artists we’ve had play below.
Capacity: 300
Operating Hours: 18:00 - 02:30
Serving: Cocktails, wines, rare spirits, pints, low ABV and more
Poseidon Sound System & Multichannel Sound
Broadcast Facilities
The venue is centered around our bespoke built “Poseidon’ sound system. It also hosts a unique multichannel array set up of Funktion One speakers with Full Fat Audio amps. 20 speakers placed around the venue creates the opportunity to make spatial sound scapes along with separate individual outputs, evoking a sense of theatre that immerses the audience from entering the building. They are also used as fillers to create a balanced sound.
We have also designed and built our own bespoke lighting system that surrounds the perimeter of the venue with single-pixel addressable LEDS. These have been designed to be more atmospheric rather than intrusive, offering reactive mood lighting. We want the lighting to compliment the music and add another dimension, not overpower and overstage the audio.
Speakers & Amps
We have over 20 individual speakers placed around the venue that we can send audio individually to. Creating sound scapes but also seperate environmental control. There is an ongoing pursuit of creating better sound within the venue, refining our room acoustics and further tuning of our sound systems.
MAIN FRONT PA - Custom built Poseidon Sound System (for info go here)
- Tops: Horn led-2 x 2 15" 18 Sounds and B&C compression drivers.
- Subs: 18" 18 Sounds.
- Amplification: Linear Research 48 Series M20
AUDIOPHILE LOUNGE
- Klipsch Cornwall IV's
- Icon Audio la4 Valve Amp
- Bryston Power amp
FILLERS & MULTICHANNEL AUDIO
- Funktion One F81 x 14 (perimeter of mainspace)
- Funktion One F118 subs x 2
- Funktion One F55 x 1 (Stairs)
- Funktion One F55 x 1 (Toilets)
- Full Fat Audio 6004 x 2
- Full Fat Audio 4004 x 2
- M-audio x 2 (Entrance Hallway)
- Akai X 2 / Cambridge audio (Lobby)
MONITORING
- KV2 Audio EX10 X 2
- RCF NX 12-SMA X 3
I/O
Our control system lies tidied away behind the scenes with control sent to the broadcast suite. We can set up monitoring from Ipad tablets. We are also able to multitrack the recordings.
Stage has 32/8 Analogue and 16/8 Slink I/O
- Allen & Heath SQ6 (Stage)
- Allen & Heath SQ5 (House/art) (Dante expansion)
- Allen & Heath Expansion I/O (For multichannel Audio)
- Allen & Heath Slink DT168 (16 in 8 Out - XLR) (Stage Box)
- Allen & Heath AR 84 (8 in 4 out XLR) DJ Box
- Sssnake MC328 (32 In 8 Out)
- Sssnake MC 8 Multicore MK II (Sub Snake)
- Dante AVIO output and input units - XLR to Ethernet.
- Dante sound controller and virtual sound card licenses.
- Mixer Ipad Tablet
DJ
- Technics SL-1210 MK7 x 2 with Audio Technica XP7
- Pioneer CDJ-2000 NXS2 x 2
- Allen and Heath Xone 96
- Pioneer DJM 900NXS
- Audio Technica Weights,scales, level measure.
- Concrete and neoprene rubber isolation.
Mics & DI
- Shure 58 x 3
- Shure Beta 58a
- Shure 57 x 3
- Shure Beta 57a
- Shure Beta 91a
- Shure Beta 52a
- AKG 414 x 2
- Sennheiser E904 x 3
- Neumann TLM 103
- Audio Technica ATM25 x 4
- Audio Technica ATM33a
- Audio Technica AT8532 x 2
- Audio Technica Pro 44 x 2 (ambient mics)
- Stands - Short/Tall/Podcast
- Radial J48 DI Box x 2
- Radial Pro DI x 2
- Palmer Pan 16 8 Channel Passive DI Box
Stage
Stage Dimensions: Width - 538cm Depth - 247cm Height - 29cm
Table Riser - 2m x 1m
Table Riser - 2m x 0.5m
Table Riser - 2m x 0.5
Lighting
Our venue has been designed in detail to create a unique atmosphere based around our own custom built lighting set up. All the lighting can sync to audio and other data sources. We have a simple stage lighting set up as, designed just to add atmosphere and to light talent.
- Bespoke 177 Addressable Pixel Wall Lights x 11 surrounding the perimeter of the main space.
- Bespoke 12 Steps Address Pixel Light Tunnel
- Mirror Ball
- Eurolite LED PST-10 QCL Spot x 4
- ADJ Mega TriPar Profile Plus X 4
- Cameo HydraBeam 4000 RGBW
- Varytec BAT.Trusslight RGBW
- Varytec Hero Beam 100
- 2 x Photogrpahy Lighting (tall)
- 2 x Photogrpahy Lighting (short)
- Addressable bar lighting control
- Toilet cubicles and main lighting control, custom jukebox control.
- Resolume / Ableton
Video & Broadcast
Our recording, broadcasting and editing facilities will grow over time. Our aim is to develop an experimental approach to blending the informal, the voyeuristic and the live studio approaches to video format.
- Sony AS7II (4k)
- Sigma 24-70mm
- Sigma 50mm Prime
- Zhi Yun Crane 2S 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal
- Birddog 4K PTZ camera
- Logictech Briostream (4k)
- Roland VR 50HD II
- Hollyland MARS 400S PRO Wireless SDI HDMI
- ATOMOS Ninja V Monitor
- Blackmagic Video Capture Card 4k
- Tripods x 2
- Multiple displays
- Remote Tablet Control
- Broadcast Machine - AMD 5950 CPU,128 GB Ram, NVidea RTX3090 Super, HDs,
- Events & Arts Machine- Content and control over art installations, projection, lighting. Nvidea RTX 2070 Super
- 32:9 Radio ultrawide HDR Screen x 2
- Ableton
- Adode Creative suite
Misc & Building
- Bioadaptive architectural lighting (circadian lighting)
- Osram Spot lighting for highlighting
- Panasonic Air Conditioning x 7
- Remote Door Entry
- 20 x CCTV
- Building Control Machine / Linux Server - Nvidia GTX 1650, i9 8960HK 6 Cores, 16GB DDR4 - automation and data server, controlled with remote tablet app.
- Power - 3phase / 32Amp sockets
- Internet - Leased Line 100mbps up/down
- Remote Door Entry
Accessibility
- Hearing Loop (coming soon)
- Unfortunately there is no wheelchair access.