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JUSTTHETHINGFORTHETINGTINGS FORTOURSUPPLY
Tour Supply Ltd will once again have its
Mobile Tour Supply shop a t some of this
year’s biggest and best UK festivals.
“Helping out the road crews and
bands with a wide variety of products
available immediately on-site for those last
Electro-punk pop duo The Ting Tings tasked one-ton loading points. Besides, we have our minute needs is the key to what we are
their new FOH engineer, Trevor Gilligan, own single point pick up flybars and we’ve used doing working with the festivals over the
with creating a challenging mix on their first single point per side in all venues.” summer,” said MD Paul Collis.
production tour of the UK. In addition Cap Sound fielded four Martin “The festivals love having us on-site
While they occasionally played through W2s for front fill and a W8C for outfill. “This backstage in the dressing room area with
house systems, the staple was for nine Martin is just to give presence around the side where the shop and we love being there,” added
Audio W8LC compact line array enclosures to the array isn’t hitting,” said Donovan, pictured shop manager ‘Big Al’.
be flown either side with four WS218X ground- (above right) with Gilligan. Tour Supply will have a full range of
stacked subs. Martin Audio components also featured items for sale backstage at 11 festivals
Gilligan is an old hand at powering up his heavily at the stage end where James — including Radio 1 Big Weekend,
favoured Martin compact line array, provided Lawrenson and monitor tech Dan Kent Download, Hard Rock Calling, O Wireless,2
on the tour by Capital Sound Hire. “I have fashioned a mix of in-ears and Martin’s sleek Sonisphere, V Festival (Stafford) and
always liked the Martin Audio line array concept LE1500 floor wedges. Bestival — and all are welcome to drop in
because it’s a horn-loaded system and you can Lighting for the tour was provided by Bandit for a cup of tea and meet the team.
use the colouration to your advantage,” he said. Lites after tour/production manager Brett Random examples of the stock on sale
“It’s an easy system to work — they are Spence and lighting director Jvan Morandi include jack cables, gaffer tape, batteries,
certainly punchy yet easy on the ear; for The contacted the company’s Mick Freer. valves, torches, drum heads, guitar strings,
Ting Tings we are delivering a nice fat 100dB.” The kit supplied included Martin MAC 300s, Sennheiser G3 IEM rigs, and Shure UHF-R or
For Cap Sound’s system tech Toby Donovan, MAC 2000 spots and washes, High End PC Audio-Technica Artist Elite wireless systems.
even in the smaller club venues hanging the Beams and Thomas Pixellines, all controlled by a Pre-orders can also be arranged and
W8LCs from the rigging points hasn’t been an Chamsys console. delivered to the dressing room ahead of the
issue. “The weight is 834kg for 12 enclosures, www.martin-audio.com band/crew arrival via Tour Supply’s website.
663kg for nine boxes — well within the usual www.banditlites.com www.toursupply.co.uk
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