The Willows Variety Club Salford closes its doors.
On January 28th 2012 the Willows Variety Club Salford finally cloased it's doors for the last time. The Salford Reds Rugby team haved moved to the new stadium over in Barton near to the Trafford Centre. The land that the club and ground sits on is to be cleared and make way for a new Salford housing development. Ace PA were asked to come in and strip out the Opus PA system. Comprising of 4 flown mid/hi cabinets, 4x 2x18" subs sat on the floor. 6 infill and delay speakers and 4 stage monitors. The amp rack comprising of a full compliment of Opus Audio Amplifiers and processor. At F.O.H. we removed an Allen & Heath GL3300 24ch desk and outboard rack of graphics, FX, Comps CD & MD machines. After the PA system was removed we started on the intelligent lighting system, which comprised mainly of Robe moving heads, 1200's, 525's etc and Par 64 cans and Avolites desk and Martin hazer and smoke machines.