Dance Stacks at Stealth in Nottingham

Stealth in Nottingham continues the long line of groundbreaking dance venues to have emerged from the UK's late night scene over the past decade and beyond.

The venue itself is a product of the fusion between two of the cities most accomplished operators : George Atkins - Director of Daybrook House Promotions, operator of Rock City; and James Baillie - named the fifth most influential man in music by NME in 1999 and synonymous with Nottingham institutions the Social and The Bomb.

The difference in Stealth is evident in every aspect of the operation, combining confidence, intelligence, real investment, and a music policy that pre dates the superclub with its forward thinking philosophy.

Stealth is very different in design and takes shape within two similar sized rooms that are spread accross two floors to create a capacity of 660.

The sound system at Stealth illustrates a dedication to music and has been designed by David Kelland from Kelco UK ltd. "We are part of the Funktion One family", explains David, in order to be a part you have to have a passion - the guys down there are incredible , and with their attention to detail, producing equipment of quality, its difficult not to".

James and Will determined on a Funktion One system, "It's an amazing system we specified the Dance Stack for the upstairs room, the claity is crystal clear even at the bottom end . Systems usually go down to 40 and then they start to distort, this one goes down to 20 so you can't actually heard the infrabass you can just feel it".

Such was their resolve that George was convinced to install the system; James laughs " George actually said 'James was adamant about this syystem - he was throwing his balls out of the pram! But i'm glad we went with it because it's such a talking point"'.

Expalins David " James and will had seen the Dance Stacks, and what first appeals to them was the visual statement it made it looks awesome. But I think once they heard it they became involved. That's the one part they specified - we designed the rest of the system around it".

"We're really really happy, the reaction from the crowd, and the amount of people talking about it more than justifies the cost, because if people are talking about the system they are taking about us".