LONDON – Britannia Row Productions, client Duran Duran and other artists have helped Metro Production Group, corporate event partner for the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), raise a multi-million dollar sum through recent performances. The funds will go toward GOSH’s new Children’s Cancer Centre.
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Love GOSH, the annual fundraising event developed by Great Ormond Street Hospital charity, GOSH, has raised over £3.2 million over the course of three appeals and is currently working towards a state-of-the-art Children’s Cancer Centre. At the heart of its vital donation activities are philanthropic events which help the world-renowned children’s healthcare facility to gather supporters through live entertainment.
Keen to assist this incredibly worthy cause, Britannia Row Productions client Duran Duran performed at the charity’s winter event. More recently, Britannia Row returned for another evening of fundraising endeavors at The Peninsula London, a high-end hotel in the heart of London’s Belgravia district, where singers Pixie Lott and Sophie Ellis-Bextor performed. The event also featured a DJ set from Sigala.
Working on behalf of corporate production specialists Metro Production Group, Britannia Row Account Executive Tom Brown oversaw audio design and equipment delivery – deploying a compact yet powerful L-Acoustics PA system – and skilled technical personnel.
Metro Production Manager, Richard Sheehan, comments: “Since 2024, Metro Production Group has supplied set and staging to Love GOSH as our client wanted to up the production values. When we had Duran Duran joining us at an additional winter event, Britannia Row became the obvious audio partner. When Britannia Row came in, they had a great blend of rock ‘n’ roll expertise for our corporate setting.”
The main system comprised A Series loudspeakers; A15 Focus and A15 Wide boxes on the ground, flown 5XT 2-way passive point source speakers, A10 Focus and A10 Wide for flown outfill, ground arranged KS28 subwoofers and more A10 Focus units for delays.
For control, a Yamaha PM Series console package was utilized; CS-R3 Rivage PM3 and a Yamaha Rivage PM DSP-R10 with a DSP engine, plus a Yamaha Rivage RPio622 I/O Rack.
Shure technology led on IEMs with Axient Digital Handhelds and PSM1000’s, while Clear-Com Freespeak and Riedel Communications Bolero were chosen for comms systems.
A plethora of microphones including Shure, Audix, Sennheiser, AKG and Electro-Voice models adorned the stage.
“I’ve been working in this industry for a long time, but I’d never personally worked with Britannia Row prior. Tom Brown, Dave Compton (Duran Duran Account Executive), and the on-site technical crew were all fantastic,” Richard added. “The engineering skills were excellent, and everyone was lovely to deal with. Ultimately, the quality of audio for bands, presenter speech and playback were of the highest level with them on board. My colleagues all took the time to point this out.
“It’s so helpful from an audio perspective and it certainly took the live performance pressure away having Britannia Row there,” he concluded. “We worked brilliantly together, and the events were a huge success for the hospital.”
