SYDNEY — AVCorp recently supported several large events held at Sydney’s Allphones Arena with JBL VRX and PRX speakers along with their Soundcraft Si Compact 32 digital live sound console, also made by Harman.
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PORTLAND, OR — Britannia Row Productions credited an Audinate Dante digital media network for helping the soundco support the Diamond Jubilee concerts at the Victoria Memorial near Buckingham Palace in early June.
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HALDEN, Norway — For a series of Scandinavian shows in mid-June featuring Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, Starlight/United Audio provided an L-Acoustics sound system powered by Powersoft K Series amplifiers. The venues included Herning Jyske Bank Boxen arena, Denmark (June 14); Malmo Arena, Sweden (June 16); and June 17th at Halden Fredriksten Festning, Norway (June 17).
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LONDON — For a series of performances by Alanis Morissette in the U.K. and France, Britannia Row provided an Outline GTO system that included the new GTO-SUB and GTO-DF downfill 120-degree element.
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AMNEVILLE, France — Adamson Energia beta partners MPM and Waveform Audio provided Energia e15 speakers for the Sonisphere Festival, which was staged here July 7-8. The lineup of rock and metal artists included Faith No More, Marilyn Manson, Wolfmother, Machine Head and others.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany – For the 99th Tour de France, Team Garmin used a radio solution from Riedel Communications. The specialist for real-time communications and media networks installed a combination of conventional trunked radios and NanoTalk to allow Garmin team members to communicate.
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MANCHESTER, UK — The Stone Roses performed a series of concerts for some 225,000 fans at Heaton Park here recently. FOH engineer Robbie McGrath mixed the shows using a Midas PRO6 digital console.
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CHELMSFORD, UK — Event Sound & Light (ESL) fielded one of the larger assemblages of RCF gear in the U.K. to support an Olympic Torch Relay event in the run-up to the London Olympics at Hylands Park, a restored town-owned mansion.
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IBIZA — Space Club in Ibiza recently held its summer season opening night, installing three of Allen & Heath’s industry standard Xone:92 mixers in the main room to fulfill the rider request of a majority of the performing DJs.
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GENOA, Italy — The 3,780-passenger Costa Fascinosa, launched in May by Costa Cruises, features an onboard audio system that includes Powersoft gear. The amplifier gear list includes M14D (two channels, driving 700W on 4 ohms), M50Q HDSP+ETH (four channels, each generating 1,250W on 4 ohms), and Duecanali 3904 and Ottocanali 1204 (eight channels, 150W on 4 ohms or 125W on 70V using BatFormers, the optional plug-in output transformers).
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Norwest Productions is supporting the latest — and perhaps final — tour of Barry Humphries, a.k.a. Sir Les Patterson, a.k.a. Dame Edna, a.k.a. Sandy Stone, with gear from L-Acoustics, Martin Audio, Lab.gruppen and DPA. Humphries’ farewell tour, Eat, Pray, Laugh, is an all-singing, all-dancing spectacular. Norwest Productions is providing the audio, and the FOH operator for the show is one of their longtime employees, Aaron Mason.
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LONDON — Samantha Graham, a freelance audio engineer working with Merlin PA, which provided audio support for the concerts associated with the F1 Grand Prix racing in the U.K., penned a testimonial crediting Kaltman Creations’ IWxLive RF Command Center for keeping the production going smoothly.
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