Belfast is opening its first audiophile bar — with a sound system built to order
Music Room on Church Street was conceived by local DJ OJ Wilson. The idea grew out of nights in Dublin, Paris and Ibiza — and from a sense that the city lacks a place where music is the centre, not the background.
Music Room, a hi-fi listening bar, is opening in Belfast. The official launch was set for Wednesday 1 July.
DJ Mag reported on it.
The venue on Church Street was conceived by local DJ and creative OJ Wilson, and is positioned as Belfast’s first space built specifically for listening. It plans music-focused programming alongside other events, with the ambition of becoming a new cultural hub.
The sound system was designed by West Cork-based Hatchett Sound. It features a SEOS waveguide, B&C components, a ten-inch coaxial speaker array with handmade drivers, Volt loudspeakers and dual twelve-inch reflex subwoofers. Together with the Sound Advice record store, a vinyl pop-up will run inside the venue.
“There wasn’t one single venue that inspired the concept. It was more the feeling that I experienced travelling through cities like Dublin, Paris and Ibiza,” Wilson said. “It was spending time in these intimate spaces across Paris that made me realise how powerful bespoke environments could be in shaping the guest experience.”
“Belfast has an incredible musical identity and a deep connection to electronic music culture, yet there is currently no dedicated intimate listening space where music, sound and atmosphere are truly at the centre of the experience,” he added.
Appetite for such places is growing, he said: people want venues with personality rather than one-size-fits-all rooms.
The bar opens in a region with what are described as Europe’s most prohibitive rules for venues: earlier this year the nightlife campaign Free The Night launched legal action against the government of Northern Ireland over its failure to act on the recommendations of an independent review of licensing law.
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