#threshold14 // Venues We Love - Siren
Nicely tucked away on St
James Street as you enter the Baltic Triangle from China Town is Siren. With a
light bathed, spacious vibe and an excellent view of the outside world from its
high window’s it’s the perfect place to while away a few hours over a rather nice
coffee. Having been a venue previously in 2013, it will be a pleasure to
welcome them back with a visit for some cool music and a coffee during the
festival. Over a coffee, we spoke to co-owner Natalie...
What is Siren?
We are a café, bar and
event space. We’ve been running just under a year now. (The venue) is run by
myself, Cathy and Jenny. We’ve all known each other since school. Through the
week we’re more of a coffee shop, office lunch type of place with lots of
locals coming down. Then on the weekend, we’re still a café but we have our own
events, such as the craft workshops, book clubs… We’ve had some events on with
WoW (Writing On The Wall) Plus some private parties, including charity events,
launch nights and more. A mixture of things really!
What will your role be at
Threshold?
I think our venue is quite
different to others in the area. A calming, tranquil space that, depending on
what acts we have here, suits more acoustic, chilled out music. Also food! We’ll
have very nice menu, everything made from scratch. Some nice hearty food and
some vegetarian options as well. That’ll be us!
The Threshold experience
is different. What do you think makes it different?
Well, it seems real. It’s
not just about the marketing and the PR. It seems to be focused on the people
who love music, who love this part of town. There’s a nice community spirit to
how the event is run. They’ve kept a lot of integrity from the beginning as
well. We’re a small business so it’s nice that a lot of the small venues will
be involved in it.
Why should people come to Siren?
The food and the venue!
Do you have any plans for
the future you can reveal?
Well, we want to have more
events on. We’ve done the odd event, you know, bits of things so we want to
continue that. After Threshold, we want to try and have some more musical
events, more craft workshops of an afternoon and evening. More things going on
basically!
The Schedule:
Friday: Threshold
presents Beans on Toast
She Drew The Gun, Paul
Tarpey,
Tom
Kwei,
KZM
The Gaffney
Collective, Richard Francis, Mr. Wolf Collective
Hosted
by Jamie Broad
Saturday: Threshold
presents Triphazard
The
Borgias, Mervin Gersh, Rangoon Sons,
Edge of
Eden,
Nightflies,
Arkham
Karvers
Pyro, Duncan
Ewart and Michael
Bennett
Acoustic
Sunday @ Threshold
Robert J
Hunter,
Barney
Soanes,
Katie
McLoughlin, The Big I Am, Sam
Cooper
Hedge
Gods, Karl
McCann, Dougie Crosbie and Just By
Chance
