32 l April 2014
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Get a load of those X5s: Shane Filan on tour
EUROPE Tours galore for Flare By Jon Chapple
IN A big few months for the loudspeaker brand, February and March saw West Sussex- based Flare Audio announce two high-profile customers. Shane Filan, best known as
the frontman of now-defunct boy band Westlife, toured the UK and Ireland from 20 February and 14 March with an all-new speaker system supplied by Orbital Sound.
The same system will also be called into action for The X Factor-winning Little Mix’s debut arena tour, which runs from 16 May to 8 June and also takes in venues across the British Isles. Filan’s tour is the first to use
Flare Audio’s X5A line array, which is configured with six X5s and four Q18 bass units aside and powered by
Lab.gruppen PLM20000Q four- channel DSP amplifiers. Orbital says the kit “represents an extremely compact system fully capable of handling the tour’s diverse venues.” Industry veteran Steve Levitt,
who handled the Filan tour’s production duties, described the X5A – which shares DNA with the award-winning SB18C – as having “a very clever sound with loads of power,” adding: “I wouldn’t hesitate to tour it again.”
www.orbitalsound.com www.flareaudio.com
UNITED KINGDOM
THE SOUND department of west London-based Entec Sound & Light deployed a d&b V-Series audio system – comprising eight V8 and two V12 speakers, four V- Subs, two Q7s and two E8s, all driven by proprietary d&b D12 amps – for the 2014 Bhangra
Showdown dance competition at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The show was mixed at FOH by Kevin Smith using a Yamaha PM5D, and “tuned to perfection” by Entec systems technician James Kerridge.
www.entec-soundandlight.com
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