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Adlib equips Years & Years

Adlib equips Years & Years
Adlib equips Years & Years

Adlib supplied an L-Acoustics ‘racks-and-stacks’ audio solution plus a support package and crew to Years & Years recent UK tour which saw the synthpop trio from London playing a series of theatres and arenas. Adlib were brought on-board by production manager Steve Down. Two of their engineers, Sam Proctor and Hassane Es Siahi, worked closely with band engineers Pablo Campanara (FOH) and Harry Bishop (monitors).

 

Due to the variety of venues on the itinerary, Campanara specified a system with great flexibility, an L-Acoustics K1/K2 package, which in the largest iteration - as used for Wembley and Birmingham - comprised of 12 x L-Acoustics K1s a side with 4 x Kara downs for the main hangs and 12 x K2s a-side for the secondary/side hangs. The 18 x SB28 subs were ground stacked and configured as three 3-high stacks per side, the first one directly below the main arrays and two subsequent ones at two metres and then four metres onstage, mirrored left and right.

 

For the smaller gigs the K2 array became the main hang and the subs reduced to two 3-way stacks per side. For infill, on top of the outside sub stacks were four Arcs boxes per side complimented with a single Kara element each side on the inside sub stacks. All speakers were driven by LA8 amplifiers. One of Adlib’s standard Lake processing/control systems dealt with the processing, utilising three LM 44s at FOH, going to two LM26s onstage and a RedNet D16R interface, distributing AES to all the amps with analogue backup.

 

The FOH and monitor consoles for Years & Years and their full monitor set up was supplied by London based Hark Audio, the band’s regular supplier for some years. The support package from Adlib consisted of a DiGiCo SD10 for FOH and a Soundcraft Vi1 for monitors, plus a full line system and mics-and-stands.

 

Danish singer/songwriter Mø performed for the whole tour with two other acts - Mabel and Nimmo - also appearing at three shows each, and all three playing at Wembley. Two of these had their own IEM systems, Mø toured her own FOH console, and all of them brought own engineers.

 

(Photos: Shirlaine Forrest)

 

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