HK AUDIO AND LAB.GRUPPEN AT SUMMER LIVE FESTIVAL AT SANDOWN PARK

The famous Sandown Park racecourse in Esher, Surrey became the venue for one of this years biggest one off music events in the south.

Surbiton's Hillcroft College, celebrating its 90th anniversary this year funded the venture, in a brave bid to raise urgent funds to fix the leaking roof, improve disabled access and carry out essential maintenance – spurred on by the collapse of £13m of Learning and Skills Council funding.

Working from the college, a team of just three people managed to secure some of music’s top artists, and even turned down names including Sugababes and N-Dubz. Among the names who performed to a 14,000 crowd on August 28 were headliners McFly, Chipmunk, Tinchy Stryder, Roll Deep, Alesha Dixon, The Wanted and Julian Smith.

Ipswich-based DHE Professional were contracted to provide sound reinforcement for the festival, and put together a full HK Audio FOH and monitor set up consisting of Cohedra, Cohedra Compact, ICON and Contour Series systems, with speaker processing through the HK DSM2060 and powered by Lab.gruppen PLM14000/PLM10000 amplifiers.

DHE Professional's Gavin Matthias gave a brief overview of the set-up "We used the HK Cohedra system comprising of 8 tops hanging per side and 8 2x10 bass units per side. Side fill was provided by the HK ICON system and 12 CT115 wedges for monitoring and in fill. CT118's provided drum fill subs".

It was Sandown’s first ever stand-alone concert, and there is already talk of it repeating next year with an even bigger line-up, perhaps across two days.

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Below: Alesha Dixon and Julian Smith performing on stage at the Summer Live Festival