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Canegreen gets music industry talking |
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Sound specialists Canegreen provided the PA system for BBC Radio 2’s Live Great British Music Debate, this July, attended by the music industry’s opinion leaders.
The live event focused on the debates surrounding the current state of the British music industry, with focus on the question, “Is the single dead?” The evening kicked off with five acts, including Glaswegians Speedway and the soulful vocals of Peppercorn, before music industry heads got down to discussing the issues.
Canegreen provided the sound equipment for the event, designing a system to manage both the live acts as well as an onstage and audience debate. The system managed 48 feeds from the room, and linked to the BBC Radio 2 broadcast, which went out live on air.
The system consisted of four Meyer MSL 4 speaker cabinets, which were used evenly with the two Meyer 650R2P SP sub speakers for the bands, but more predominantly for the debate. Four Meyer UPA-1P and four UPM speakers acted as infills for the room. |
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A DBX 160s limiting system was used by the front of house technician to squeeze the sound and increase it’s clarity for the small venue. The FOH and monitor desks used to control the system were a Midas XL4 mixing console and a Midas Heritage 3000 console.
The panel included some of the industries biggest names, including Rob Stringer Chairman of Sony UK, his counterpart at EMI UK, Tony Wadsworth and pop legend Beverly Knight. The audience included some equally prestigious names with comments from the Head of BBC Radio; independent record labels owners and musicians themselves. Directing the questions was Radio 2 DJ Jeremy Vine.
Seamus Fenton, Canegreen’s monitor engineer for the event, was pleased with the way the evening had gone. He commented
“This event was interesting because of the mix of live music followed by live debate. It was a challenge to do the 10-minute changeovers for the bands, without a ‘flip-flop’ system, but we’re experienced in these things! I think we all enjoyed listening to what the music industry had to say.”
Andrew Cheeseman, Event Manager commented on why he worked with Canegreen;
“Canegreen very good and efficient at what they do and can cope with anything, which with me is usually a fly by the seat of their pants affair!’
The evening raised several interesting issues about the UK music industry today, with many comments being about the importance of live music. Canegreen often work with the BBC on their live music events, applying their experience of providing sound for events to broadcast. Canegreen helped them broadcast this event on Radio 2 to the nation, and music lovers will be hoping that the music industry bosses were listening too.
Yan Stile, Director of Canegreen commented, ‘We look forward to joining the BBC and others in the development of live music over the coming years, we all hope that the bands which are coming out today are going to bring a resurgence in the quality of British live gigs.” |
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