UK technical solutions provider Adlib supplied sound, lighting, scenic video and crew for a regular summer pop event at Liverpool’s Echo Arena recently. Hosted by Liverpool’s largest radio station, Radio City Live showcased some of the biggest names in UK pop – including One Direction, Professor Green, Will Young, Labrinth and Stooshie & Rizzle Kicks – who performed to a capacity 10,000 crowd
Steve Hill and David Andrews (of EMO) hadled event planning and management, with Andy Grey and Neil McDonald serving as production managers, and Steve Pottinger stage managing. The lighting was designed by LD Ian Tomlinson with Andy Rowe as lighting crew chief, working with Neil Holloway, Stu Wright and Jeff Bond on stage. Adlib’s Richie Nicholson was the audio crew chief, accompanied by Sam Proctor, Chris Smethurst, Dan Ungaretti and Carlos Herreros.
Adlib’s Richie Nicholson and Sam Proctor took care of the FOH system and desk duties.
The main PA cmprised 14 L-Acoustics K1 speakers per side for the main hangs and ten K1 for side hangs. Ground-stacked were ten SB28 Subs per side, with four L-Acoustics ARCs II boxes on top as in fill, alongside L-Acoustics Kara speakers for front fill. All of the L-Acoustics elements were powered by L-Acoustics LA8 amplifiers, and the system was time aligned and controlled via the LA Network Manager2, which Nicholson regards as ‘very cool’. The main EQ was fine-tuned using a wireless tablet and combination of Lake LM 26 and LM 44 processors in one of Adlib’s standard control racks
The FOH console was a Soundcraft Vi6 – this was used for all the bands, with Nicholson using an additional Vi1 desk for the presenters, video stings and play-ins. Covering monitors were Chris Smethurst and Dan Ungaretti running a Yamaha PM5D console, while Carlos Herreros co-ordinated everyone’s playback requirements.
Eight sets of Sennheiser 2000 Series IEMs were used together with Adlib MP3 wedges powered by Lab.gruppen PLM amplifiers.
‘To work alongside Richard Maddock and the Radio City team is a real joy, as I used to go along to their roadshows as a kid,’ Account Manager Phil Kielty says. ‘They stage Liverpool’s biggest pop event and make it look so effortless. Steve Hill and David Andrews head up a superb team and there is a great atmosphere behind the scenes. A stunning line-up from One Direction to Professor Green saw a three hour show that people will remember for a long time.’
Adlib’s relationship with Radio City goes back more than 20 years, when it supported the station’s roadshows, since when both companies have become Liverpool music institutions in their own right.
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