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Adlib Enjoys a Summer Full of Festivals

Liverpool UK based Adlib is full of festival spirit following a highly successful summer of shows and events covering a rich and diverse cross section of concerts and music performances - from Latitude to Leeds/Reading - with lighting, sound, their infectious enthusiasm and characteristic humour. Here’s a roundup of a few of the highlights capturing the energy, spirit and vibes …

Creamfields Lighting
This is always a special event for Adlib. The company has been involved with various Cream live activities since the superclub exploded onto the dance scene in the early 90s and has continued to be a major influence right at the epicentre of rave culture. This year Adlib supplied sound and lighting to three arenas, CF03 the 15.000 capacity Cream Mega Arena; CF05 The Curve Arena - complete with wrap-round production design and CF12 Hospitality, with production overseen by Ian Greenway production manager from Larmac Live. Adlib’s Ian Tomlinson opened his imagination-bank and designed three stunning, dynamic and flexible production ‘house’ lighting rigs for the three areas each to bring a different ambience to the respective space.

Creamfields Sound
These same three arenas also benefitted from three excellent sound systems designed by Adlib’s Phil Stoker, all optimised to portray the fantastic line up of EDM genres. The system in the Cream Arena was Coda LA-12 with SCP-F subs and Viray delays and infills, which filled the tent beautifully giving a rich and resonant sound with plenty of body. It was specified by Phil and based on the system that has been provided for this venue over the past four years which has been hugely successful with artists, visiting engineers and the public.

Cornbury Lighting
Cornbury 2015 was staged in the attractive leafy environs of the Great Tew Estate in Oxfordshire, with Adlib supplying lighting for the main and second stages. Production was generally stepped up this year with a 15 metre Orbit main stage from which Adlib sub-hung their lighting trusses The lighting scheme itself was designed around headliner Tom Jones, who had his own lighting requirements featuring four upstage/downstage trussing fingers, which were slightly adapted to fit this specific event. This was the big challenge … providing a good match for Tom Jones’ LD that would also work for all the rest of the artists appearing over the weekend and using the ‘house’ rig. Sixty moving lights were a mix of Clay Paky Mythos and Martin MAC Aura washes, plus 20 x new RGB Stormy strobes. The console was a grandMA2 with another running in full tracking backup and the five Adlib crew were chiefed by Rob Starksfield. The second stage featured a smaller system comprising of front and back trusses on wind-up stands and a series of vertical truss sections, loaded with Martin MAC 700 Wash and Spots.

The Script at Croke Park, Dublin
The Script played a tumultuous homecoming show at Dublin’s iconic Croke Park stadium to the delight of 85,000 ecstatic fans. Adlib has been the regular Script PA supplier since 2010 with Adlib’s own Richy Nicholson their FOH engineer since then as well, ensuring that their intricate but ballsy rocky mix has been at its best worldwide. For Croke Park, the system comprised of a large L-Acoustics K1/K2 system with three sets of delays, plus a number of Kara mini-delay hangs which were dotted around the stadium roof – distributed style. This area of the venue has traditionally been a difficult space to deal with and get a good and consistent sound, but Richie and Adlib cracked it on this occasion with a bit of lateral thinking! With heavy noise restrictions in place as it’s a residential area, the 6 x Kara hangs and the three sets of delays - on three separate towers at the back of the arena - gave Richy more control. He used a DiGiCo SD7 out front, with a Soundcraft Vi6 provided for monitor engineer Paul “Mini” Moore. An Adlib crew of 10 ensured that all things audio ran smoothly, chiefed by the unflappable Marc Peers, with Dave Jones co-ordinating everything from the office and administration side.

Leeds/Reading Sound
As in recent years, Adlib has supplied audio and lighting for the NME/BBC Radio 1 stage, the tented and highly respected second stage at each location of this historically significant festival. L-Acoustics K1 was specified together with an almost identical design for both sites, and a marginally larger set up for Reading. Adlib also supplied Kara speakers for the overspill stage / screen areas, which were outside both sides and at the back of the tent in Reading, and outside in the area behind the tent in Leeds, This accommodated those unable to get in during the most popular sets. The consoles were Avid Profiles at FOH and Yamaha PM5Ds for monitors, and six crew were deployed to each site to make sure everything ran like clockwork. Kenny Perrin was the crew boss at Reading and Sam Proctor in Leeds. Adlib has been involved in this iconic UK festival since 2007.

Kendal Calling
Adlib was proud to again supply PA and lighting to 10 full stages and a number of periphery areas for this quality, independent, eclectic and well-loved event staged in the picturesque heart of the Lake District near Penrith, known for its boutique ambience, excellent line ups and fabulous atmosphere.
This year was the tenth Kendal Calling, and it’s an event that everyone “Properly loves and believes in” enthuses Phil Stoker. On the PA side, a collection of L-Acoustics, Coda and Adlib products were used site-wide to ensure that every performance space had the best sounding and most appropriate system possible! There were also a wide variety of consoles supplied. Adlib’s crew of 35 was chiefed by the multi-tasking Kevin Byatt working closely with organisers and producers, Ground Control and their production manager Dave Weeks.

photos: Niall Lea, Geoffrey Hubbel

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