The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh reopen famous tea clipper, writes Erica Basnicki
FOLLOWING SIX years of restoration work, The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh officially reopened the Cutty Sark; the world’s last surviving tea clipper, now raised 3.3m off the ground in Greenwich, south-east London, in late
demands and it is important that I can provide other contractors with the feeds they need quickly and efficiently on-site,” said Palmer. “With the 24 outputs on the iDR48 we are never short of outputs to media break outs,
SWEDEN A 90-strong symphony orchestra played at the Royal Launch
April. The £50 million (€62 million) restoration project followed an early morning fire that caused extensive damage to the 143-year-old clipper back in 2007. The Royal Launch included a
90-strong symphony orchestra and a 400-strong choir, with sound duties coming under the responsibility of Bristol-based event production company SXS, which also provided technical production for the event, including construction and dressing of a dais stage. “It was a great honour to
be able to create a stage for the Queen at such a high- profile event,” said Johnny Palmer, production manager at SXS Events.
The PA chosen was a Martin
Audio W8LM line array system supplied by dealers LMC Audio. A total of 12 W8LM Mini Line Array enclosures in two hangs were specified, with two W8LMD downfills at the base of each hang. This was driven by Lab.gruppen FP series amps and controlled using XTA DSPs. The Martin Audio system also provided reinforcement for the Queen’s speech. Over 50 input channels were fed into an iLive T112 (again supplied by LMC) for the main mix. An iLive T80 was used for a separate live recording mix for later publication. “The iLive has become an
extension of our team. Many of our projects have complex routing
Nexo GEO T and S8 line arrays filled the 16,300-capacity Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden for the annual Melodifestivalen, the competition that determines the country’s Eurovision representative. The Nexo system was provided by Starlight, which recently merged with Eastavab Group Oy to form a Scandinavian ‘super production
Midas has announced the first sale of the PRO2 live audio system into the Slovakian market. Facilitated by Midas’ Slovakian distributor SBL Acoustics, the sale was made by Patrik Kvacka (pictured, right, with SBL’s Stanislav Lehen), who runs his own rental company in Bratislava. The console has already been used for concerts by Berlin collective Jazzanova and British jazz and electronic band The Cinematic Orchestra. www.midasconsoles.com
PLASA 2012is reporting a ‘massive increase’ in visitor registration for the event happening from 9-12 September at London’s Earls Court. Registrations are at 11,000 already, up 40% over this time last year.“With almost 80% of the floor space already booked we’re anticipating a phenomenally busy show this year and PLASA 2012 is set to be a very exciting place to be,” said PLASA events manager Sophie Atkinson. www.plasashow.com
Powersofthas named Sisme as a new distributor for its home market of Italy. The company has been importing and distributing sound equipment in the Italian market since 1967 and represents brands including L-Acoustics, Shure and HK Audio. www.powersoft-audio.comwww.sisme.it
group’ as reported in last month’s PSNEurope.
Starlight’s system design centred around a main PA using 60 GEO T4805 and 14 GEO T2815 downfill cabinets. Nexo CD18 subs were flown left and right, and two clusters of 16 cabinets of GEO S8 were flown from the truss. www.nexo-sa.comwww.starlight.se
Allen & Heath’s iLive digital mixing system was selected to manage FOH and monitors on the British Music Embassy stage at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, US. Showcasing the UK’s brightest new bands and artists, the British Music Embassy was based at downtown Austin’s Latitude 30 club, where an iDR- 48 MixRack and iLive-T112 Control Surface was installed at FOH, digitally split using a Dante networking card to a duplicate iDR-48/T112 for monitors. www.allen-heath.com