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Jul 2009
HK AUDIO AT GLASTONBURY
'09
Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is one
the highlights of Europe’s summer festival season. With
over 200,000 people on-site and well over 100 stages and venues,
it really is the mother of all festivals. For many years now
HK Audio Portable Sound products from a small LUCAS to full
stack PROJECTOR system could be found on various stages and
performance areas, and this year was no exception.
In 2009, and for the second consecutive year, HK Audio has
been part of the action at the John Peel Stage, the third
largest stage at the festival, providing the all-important
on-stage monitoring.
In fact, no less than 18 x HK AUDIO CT 115 15”/1.4”
cabinets in biamp-mode, powered by DSM 2060 controllers and
Lab.gruppen FP 10000 power amps, were used for monitors. Elsewhere
on the JP stage a ConTour Array was used as a sidefill and
for drumfills, using a combination of active CTA 118 subwoofers
and CT 115 mid/high units.
STRESS FREE
Mike Taylor, Production Manager for the John Peel Stage, remarked:
“Last year we used all HK AUDIO gear for this stage,
and the results were outstanding. Rarely have I ever experienced
such stress-free monitoring at a festival. In fact, after
last year’s festival I bought myself my own ConTour
Array System for smaller gigs. This year (2009), again everything
went great. The crew and the artists were all very satisfied.”
Head monitor engineer Will Fisher was equally enthusiastic;
“I fully agree with Mike; it’s been a pleasure
to work with the ConTour Series again and I have nothing else
to add here. Anyone who wants to know my opinion should check
my video comments on www.hkaudio.com instead.”
The John Peel Stage, usually used to feature the newest and
breaking through-est acts on the music scene, witnessed a
very special visitor this year... No less than The Boss himself,
Mr. Bruce Springsteen! Headlining at the festival on the main
Pyramid stage, Springsteen stopped by for a short impromptu
session with the band Gaslight Anthem.
Overall though, this year’s impressive JP stage line-up
also included Echo and the Bunnymen, The Wombats, White Lies,
Jarvis Cocker and the excellent Doves, amongst many others.
‘ROUNDLY IMPRESSED’
Concert Sound Clair, responsible for supplying the audio equipment
for the stage, used an HK Audio Cohedra Compact (CoCo) line
array system consisting of a total of 16 x CDR 108 mid/high
units and 8 x CDR 210 C subwoofers as a delay line.
Andy Davies, General Manager of Concert Sound Clair, sums
up thus; “We already have a lot of experience using
HK’s Cohedra Compact in situations where we have needed
a system with low weight and small size but with a big output
and extensive throw. We’ve been roundly impressed by
the performance of the CoCo system. That’s why, even
after our merger with Clair Brothers, if we run out of our
own equipment in the warehouse, we still like to rent the
Cohedra Compact system.”
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Below: Bruce Springsteen jamming with Gaslight Anthem
on the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury, with an impressive
groundstacked HK Audio ConTour array sidefill standing behind
– he'd need it to hear over the cheering!
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