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The photo shows the roof of this building and the hands of the cameraman are visible.
Front of house
Often shortened to FOH
This.
Adding to that: In concert halls or club venues it’s called the same, it’s not only a festival thing.
In theater it's sometimes called the 'Bio Box'. However, in theatre it is often tucked away right up the top, and is called 'The Gods '.
It's where the concert sounds best!
Seems to me, from watching a Dave rat video or two, a good sound engineer can make it sound good everywhere
Depends on the acoustics of venue. Sometimes it's just not possible, especially if there are any hard flat walls. IMO a good sound engineer will leave the booth and walk around and make adjustments to balance the sound as best as possible for all the different spots in the audience.
If in doubt, stand somewhere near the center middle where the big speakers cross. That will have the best sound on average.
Makes sense, you can only polish a turd so much.
I wonder why this name came about?
Probably from the theater. The stage would be at the back of the building, and this would be in the "front of the house."
And the house is where the audience seats are!
Okay.... but the seats face the stage. So from an audience perspective, the Front of House is at the back of the house.
Although I suppose it's like Stage Right, these designations are made by people who spend most of their time in audience-free theaters (not empty because they're filled with the people who work there).
It's not so much about the audience perspective as it is the layout of the building. Just like backstage is the area behind the stage, other areas like behind the bar, or the storage areas, green rooms, offices, tech rooms, weird tunnels full of mysterious cables, etc are all collectively 'back of house'.
Like when you go to a big box store and they see if they've got something 'out the back', the back of house areas are those generally not seen by the public. The term front of house likely evolved as the opposite of this.
I'd say that's the difference between the house (the whole building) and the hall (dk if this is the corect term) inside of the building. In a usual theater/opera house you'd have the main entrance in the front (of the building), then the audience room, and the stage/backstage at the back of the building. So the audience is usually facing the back of the house.
Take it from an actual stagehand, it's front of house irregardless of venue. I'm sure there are different names but if you work in the industry, that's front of house.
*regardless *irrespective
Pick one.
I hate it too, but irregardless has officially been a word in dictionaries for years now.
I just want to add that I too hate that it's a word now.
Thanks.
Unirregardless?
Unirregardlessn't!
Please stop that…
???
Irregardless…
Typing it out I was thinking, wait... I did clarify that I'm a stagehand though. I'm prone to some grammatical mistakes.
It's not actually a mistake. It's a word that has been in use for 200+ years with its first recorded use in 1795. It's controversial, but it appears in dictionaries and is a synonym for regardless. Love it or hate it language changes with time and when enough people use a word it becomes a part of the language.
I'm voting for "hate it".
Not that my vote matters....
Yup.
Front of house. The left and right portions of the stage from the crowd perspective are called house left and house right. Left and right portions of the stage perspective is stage left and stage right. The terms are used a lot when setting up lights and calibrating sound.
Sound booth (tent)
It's indeed called a sound booth in a roller skating rink, but it tends to be an actual booth at those.
Ours just calls it booth because the light gods are in there too
FOH (Front Of House)
The Thrombulacum
We always called it the sound stage
Really? Sound stage has at least two other completely different meanings already
Might be regional. I work at festivals in the UK and it's called the sound stage here.
ETA - should also add, FOH means something else at UK festivals, it's the non tech parts, so the catering are FOH, the bar is FOH, FOH staff cannot enter the soundstage.
Did you communicate with the musicians?
This message makes it sound like there's some special way to communicate with musicians, like through whale song.
I talk to them if that's what you mean?
I'm just wondering - are famous musicians good guys in real life?
Musicians are people, some I get on with, some I don't. They're just normal.
Thanks! Haha
We call it the Nerd Box.
Front of house? ✋😔
Tech Tent? 👆😌
We called it the PA. Back in the day when I was involved in organising and setting up parties and small concerts. (each about once a year). Not very accurate (looked it up just now) , but you might hear it referred to as such.
What does PA stand for?
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