Sound Factory

As one of New York City’s truly legendary nightclubs, Sound Factory in Hell’s Kitchen was for over four years one of the city’s pre-eminent nightclubs. Operating at excruciatingly high standards, as dictated by owner Richard Grant - one of the former partners in an even more mythical New York nightclub, Twilo - Sound Factory boasted a powerful-yet-clean, 80-bit GSA soundsystem and a lighting system by Dougie Lazer of XS Lighting & Sound. From Halloween of 1999 right through the club’s forced-closing in the autumn of 2004, Dougie Lazer personally attended to Mr. Grant’s whims, helping to create one of the most lasting and exciting nightclub environments in the city’s history. On call 24-hours-a-day - during which period it was not unusual for Dougie Lazer’s lighting and technical acumen to be urgently summoned at 4 o’clock in the morning - Dougie Lazer designed, supplied, programmed, installed and maintained the lighting, visual and special effects systems that kept Sound Factory booming until well past 6:00am on most nights. Providing a stimulating atmosphere that drew thousands of clubbers each week - while leaving thousands lined-up around the block, unable to gain entry - Sound Factory was a club unlike any other.