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All the single ladies, all the single ladies, all the single ladies, put your hands up!
It’s definitely not raining men…
BRIT Awards, MTV Awards and other multi-artist events broadcast live to air. “We’ve always worked on the basis that – despite the fact that Brit Row is a world- renown live company – the broadcast is the important thing,” said Zieba. “We’re producing sound for around 55,000 people watching the show – but we’re not really: we’re producing sound for over a billion people watching in 150 countries. At the end of the day, there are only a certain number of people who would’ve been here who will go home and say ‘that sounded great’. That all counts for nought if everybody sitting at home thinks ‘that doesn’t sound very good’.” Residents of the UK wouldn’t have had as much of a chance to comment on the sound quality, as the BBC refused the broadcast rights to the concert, opting to air a 70-minute highlight package instead. The move considerably angered concert promoter Harvey Goldsmith, who told the Mail on Sunday: “I am disappointed that the BBC did not broadcast the event live. I think all the BBC is interested is in Glastonbury... They have got about five million people working on it. It’s their jolly and everything else gets short shrift.” The BBC is reportedly sending close to 300 staff to cover this year’s Glastonbury festival. If backing the cause of female
empowerment didn’t reach a UK audience as much as Goldsmith had hoped, the message behind The Sound of Change certainly wasn’t lost on the crew
LIVE –TO AIR
Broadcast was only half the story at The Sound of Change. For the live sound, Britannia Row supplied L-Acoustics K1 and Turbosound Flashline line arrays, eight Avid VENUE Profile systems, and a full complement of Sennheiser and DPA microphones. As the show’s production director Jim Baggot confirmed: “It’s a hell of a lot of equipment with desks, RF gear, risers… everything. Fitting it all on stage and doing the changes on time, it’s quite a task. It’s taken a lot of meetings and thinking about how we’re going to do this.”
For the other half of the audio story for this event, visit
www.psneurope.com for a full live report.
who made it happen. Reflecting on the event, Summerhayes concluded: “Politically, I think it’s a shame that we still need to raise awareness of the plight of women from certain cultures around the world. Men and women may be different but neither one is superior and the vast majority of tasks and skills can be filled by either. “Unfortunately, certain cultures around
the word still consider women to be inferior and in my view they are absolutely wrong. If a concert like The Sound of Change can help raise the awareness and improve life for women in countries where they are still regarded as second rate citizens, then all the better.”n
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