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About Faith In Strangers

Faith In Strangers is a 350 capac­i­ty com­bined arts venue with a focus on music but a strong inter­est in every­thing else. An open plan space with scenes across Mar­gate’s kalei­do­scop­ic skies and sea, sun­sets are a promi­nent fea­ture of the venue util­is­ing the far-reach­ing views of the hori­zon. Inside lies soft fur­nish­ings aplen­ty cre­at­ing a house par­ty feel. Fre­quent­ly open to the pub­lic to walk in, there is also tick­et­ed entry for spe­cial events.

Artis­tic Vision & Music Policy

Our ambi­tion is to cul­ti­vate an audi­ence that encour­ages and sup­ports artists, per­form­ers & DJ’s, to explore their curiosi­ties, rar­i­ties, new styles and forms or find inter­est­ing ways to appre­ci­ate her­itage and old influ­ences. Our music pol­i­cy is formed by, but not restrict­ed to, a pas­sion for elec­tron­ic music, dis­co, rare grooves, psy­che­del­ic & exper­i­men­tal endeav­ours. Faith In Strangers is about the trust between peo­ple that cre­ates moments of uni­ty; we give artists the room to exper­i­ment and shape these moments.

We are cur­rent­ly devel­op­ing and design­ing the Faith in Strangers ​‘Posei­don’ sound sys­tem. It’s our cus­tom built high fideli­ty sys­tem which should be com­plete in the next few months. 

Artists we’ve had or are sched­uled to play. Horse Meat Dis­co, Luke Una, Mr Scruff, Coco Maria, Char­lie Bones, Mafal­a­da, Colleen ​‘Cos­mo’ Mur­phy, George Fitzger­ald, Crazy P, Greg Wil­son, Homo­elec­tric, DJ Paulette, Mario Rui Sil­va (Live), Low Life/​Bill Brew­ster, Joe God­dard Hot Chip, Alex­is Hot Chip, Dis­co Blood­bath, Ash­ley Beedle.

The venue hosts a unique mul­ti­chan­nel array set up of Funk­tion One speak­ers with Full Fat Audio amps. 18 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. We have Klip­sch Corn­walls run­ning through Icon Audio pre­amps and Dual Quad QSP pow­er­amps for our cur­rent audio­phile set up. These will be replaced soon with our bespoke built system. 

We work with F1 Sound for fur­ther tech­ni­cal specs, for what­ev­er the per­for­mance requires.

Bespoke light­ing fea­tures sur­round the perime­ter of the venue offer­ing mood light­ing dur­ing the atmos­pher­ic moments to full club mode dur­ing oth­ers. The data dri­ven light­ing sys­tem has been plant­ed into the heart of the build­ing ready to cre­ate and respond to the atmos­phere. Light inter­ac­tion will play a lead­ing role for rev­ellers as they will be able to inter­act with the build­ing itself through move­ment, ges­tures and input from the cus­tomers themselves.

Faith In Strangers is built with cap­ture and broad­cast in mind. The venue has been designed to har­ness con­tent from mul­ti­ple dif­fer­ent cam­era set ups rang­ing from tap­ping into our CCTV, PTZ cams and DSLRs setups. The one-of-a-kind set­up will be con­trolled from a broad­cast booth with up to 21 sta­t­ic and adjustable cam­eras spaced at key points giv­ing a ground­break­ing amount of con­trol to any stream or record­ing. The ambi­tion is to turn the venue into a satel­lite, plat­form­ing and trans­mit­ting vehi­cle for those that could not attend in per­son giv­ing glob­al reach. Faith In Strangers will cap­ture moments and cre­ate episod­ic con­tent for future view­ing once events start­up once again. Oth­er times we’ll remain private.

The team will be equipped to enable per­for­mance to be broad­cast, record­ed and edit­ed. We’ve built the venue with the future of art and inter­ac­tiv­i­ty in mind. In prac­ti­cal terms this trans­lates to unique­ly designed instal­la­tions that can be con­trolled by artists and the audience.