We have been extremely lucky to supply Bourne Festival for a number of years now and 2019 marks the 17th year of this popular event. Organised by Bourne and District Round Table, the event raises much needed money for local charities and good causes.
We supply the full production package for this event including all stage services (audio, lighting, staging and barrier) alongside site power.
Production
Audio
Front of House
As always, we turned to our TW AUDiO PA for the purposes of this event. Using 5 Vera36 high packs per side and a distributed system of 12 S33 and 2 BSX across the front edge of the stage.
Ordinarily we would prefer to fly the PA – not only does this make for an easier load in and out, but means we can get better angles on the PA. However, as we are inside a marquee, we lack roof loading to fly so we turned to groundstacking. The RF900 fly frame works as a groundstack frame with the ORF900 outriggers and GSK36 stepped angle frame. We mounted this on a 6ft high 8ft x 4ft Litedeck to get the best coverage and throw down the marquee.
Subs were distributed across the front of the stage with the BSXs forming the central 2 subs. Delaying the subs allowed us to reduce the spill outside of the marquee, and the cardioid nature of the S33 subs keeps the onstage noise to a minimum.
Front fill was provided by 3 x Vera20 boxes across the lip of the stage.
Amplification was via 6 Lab Gruppen PLM12k44 Amplifiers.
Stage
Onstage, it was all TW AUDiO and Lab Gruppen again. We sported 3 biamped pairs of wedges across the front edge with C12s making up the outer 2 pairs and C15s making up the centre pair. 2 float speakers were used (1 SL and 1 SR) as C12s and the drum mix was supplied by 2 x B18s under an M15.
Listen wedge was a C15 and we also supplied additional outputs for any IEM mixes that were brought by visiting artists and bands.
We also supplied side fill in the form of TW AUDiO’s PA-SYS-ONE system comprising of 1 x T24N and 2 x B30 per side.
Consoles and Control
Out front we used the flagship Allen and Heath dLive S7000 with a DM64 stagerack. Onstage we used our iLive 176 with an iDR10. We used an analogue split to avoid any digital trim issues with monitor world supplying +48V. This gave us plenty of control and allowed for the very short changeovers.
Microphones and Ancillaries
Microphone stock was primarily Shure and DPA with Sennheiser wireless included. A dual drum set was included as the event used rolling risers to allow for rapid turnover of drums.
Outside, we needed to supply an announcement system that also doubled as an emergency PA. We used a UPS powered 100V amplifier with a number of 100V horns to do this. Our radio rack and dLive desk and stagebox remained UPS powered to enable emergency call outs should the site power go down.
Lighting and Rigging
As we are limited in both height and roof loading in a marquee we needed to be creative to get that visual impact we wanted but also to improve the look year on year.
We opted to follow the kader lines of the marquee with Astralite A03 truss on the midstage line and the upstage line fitted with LED Battens for pixel mapping and some Mac 101s for effect on the US truss. We also included 4 Martin Mac Aura XB’s on the MS truss.
To get more of a visual impact, we built a truss structure just behind the stage as you will see in the photos. Mounted on this were Atomic strobes left and right, ACL 4 cell bars, Martin Mac Quantum Profiles and 4 Chauvet Intimidator Hybrid 140SR fixtures. US we also mounted 4 4cell Molefay blinders.
Finally, 4 more Quantums were mounted – 2 MS on 1m Truss totems and 2 on the front edge of the stage.
FOH lighting was simply a 3m section of Astralite with 4 Source4 Zooms.
Control was via Avolites Tiger Touch 2 and power distribution and dimming via Avolites Powercube.
Staging and Barrier
Staging wise we used Litedeck to form a stage area of 32ft wide by 24ft deep. This area was extended to the left and right by 12ft to form wings for monitor world and band changeovers. We also built 2 8ft x 8ft rolling risers for drums to allow rapid changeovers. The stage was built at 3ft height to allow a good view but also maximise roof height above for lighting.
Crowd Barrier was from Prolytes again and we formed a 20m straight barrier across the front of the stage.
Site Power
As normal, we designed the entire site power arrangement and have used our good friends at Pearce Hire to provide the equipment heavy mains and generators, which is then managed onsite by AE Technical Production. The majority of the site is powered by two 100kVA gensets sync’d up. A Pearce Hire MR rack is used as the main distribution location, connected to the gensets via Powerlock.
Lighting and Audio are supplied by a 63A 3phase supply each and the bar power gets a number of 32A single phase supplies for chillers and pumps with the reefer lorry trailer getting a 32A 3phase supply.
Catering also gets a 63A 3phase supply to power all the food vendors.
We also included another 60kVA genset. Due to the location of the main gensets being a bit too far from crafts and funfair, we added a 60kVA genset with its own smaller distribution to provide power to craft stalls and funfair.
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