Butlins Minehead and a chance to mix monitors the old fashioned way. Quick changeovers, dial in mixes from scratch and the bands get on and play. A good way to remember how we used to mix shows before USB sticks. Lots of wedges and sidefills as well, a proper racket!

A jolly little excursion around some undiscovered venues of the UK along with a few more conventional ones for Richard and his merry bunch to perform his Coles Corner album on it’s 20th anniversary. I played the role of Monitor Engineer. Console was a Yamaha CL5 (for compactness mostly), 2 Yamaha Rio 3224-D3 stageboxes (with dainty little screens on them for settings that you really should just leave alone). Compact HMA fibre multicore for the local crew to get the knots out of each night when we wanted to go home. Monitoring is very straightforward mixture of d&b M4 wedges, Sennheiser 2050 IEM’s for bass and strings and a very competitively priced Behringer P1 for keyboards.

There’s a spectacular tour finale of 3 sold out shows in Sheffield City Hall at the end of the year.

A quick trip to Mexico to mix monitors for Paul Young and band. Supporting Rod Stewart at Corregidora Stadium in Querétaro City, Mexico. My thanks to the local audio supplier who looked after stage end superbly. Warm up show was a mid sized club in Mexico City with an equally impressive audio install and fantastically helpful crew. Thank you.

Photo taken before doors opened!

Monitor Engineer looking after all artist mixes for this event produced for the National Lottery and BBC One.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kjm5

Show Monitor Engineer.

https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/life-changing/your-ticket-unlocks/big-bash

Busy old year as monitor engineer for Paul Weller.

JAPAN
26/01 Osaka, Japan : Namba Hatch
27/01 Aichi, Japan : Diamond Hall
30/01 Hokkaido, Japan : Zepp Sapporo
01/02 Miyagi, Japan : Sendai Pit
03/02 Tokyo, Japan : Ex Theater Roppongi
04/02 Tokyo, Japan : Ex Theater Roppongi

AUSTRALIA
09/02 Sydney, Australia : Sydney Opera House
10/02 Sydney, Australia : Sydney Opera House
12/02 Sydney, Australia : Sydney Opera House

UNITED KINGDOM & IRELAND
09/04 Leicester, UK : De Montfort Hall
11/04 Sheffield, UK : City Hall
12/04 Stoke-on-Trent, UK : Victoria Hall
13/04 Stockton-on-Tees, UK : Stockton Globe
15/04 Dunfermline, UK : Alhambra Theatre
16/04 Blackburn, UK : King George’s Hall
17/04 York, UK : York Barbican
19/04 Lincoln, UK : The Engine Shed
20/04 Aylesbury, UK : Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
21/04 Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Corn Exchange
23/04 London, UK : Later With Jools Holland
03/07 Luimneach, IE : King John’s Castle
04/07 Dublin, IE : Trinity College Dublin
07/07 Scarborough, UK : Scarborough Open Air Theatre
13/07 Edinburgh, UK : Edinburgh Castle Esplanade

USA & CANADA
06/09 Red Bank, NJ : Count Basie Center for the Arts
07/09 Brooklyn, NY : Kings Theatre
08/09 Boston, MA : House of Blues
10/09 Glenside, PA : Keswick Theatre
11/09 Washington, DC : Lincoln Theatre
13/09 Toronto, ON : HISTORY
15/09 Chicago, IL : Vic Theatre
16/09 Minneapolis, MN : First Avenue
19/09 Seattle, WA : The Moore
20/09 Vancouver, BC : Vogue Theatre
22/09 San Francisco, CA : The Fillmore
23/09 San Francisco, CA : The Fillmore
25/09 El Cajon, CA : The Magnolia
26/09 Anaheim, CA : House of Blues
27/09 Los Angeles, CA : Orpheum Theatre

UNITED KINGDOM
08/10 Maida Vale, UK : BBC Radio Piano Room
17/10 Cheltenham, UK : Cheltenham Centaur
18/10 Portsmouth, UK : Portsmouth Guildhall
19/10 Brighton, UK : The Brighton Centre
21/10 Nottingham, UK : Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
22/10 Wolverhampton, UK : Wolverhampton Halls
24/10 Newcastle, UK : Newcastle O2 City Hall
25/10 Newcastle, UK : Newcastle O2 City Hall
27/10 Dundee, UK : Dundee Caird Hall
28/10 Glasgow, UK : Glasgow Barrowland
29/10 Glasgow, UK : Glasgow Barrowland
31/10 Kingston Upon Hull, UK : Hull Connexin Live
01/11 Manchester, UK : Manchester O2 Apollo
02/11 Llandudno, UK : Llandudno Venue Cymru
04/11 Liverpool, UK : Liverpool Olympia
05/11 Bradford, UK : Bradford St. George’s Hall
07/11 Oxford, UK : Oxford New Theatre
08/11 London, UK : London Eventim Apollo
13/12 London, UK : London Brixton Academy

Pleasant little trip around as monitor engineer for Richard Hawley.

IRELAND
24 May – DUBLIN, 3Olympia Theatre

UK
02 June – GLASGOW, Barrowland Ballroom
03 June – EDINBURGH, Usher Hall
05 June – LEICESTER, De Montfort Hall
06 June – BRISTOL, Beacon
08 June – LONDON, Eventim Apollo
09 June – BRIGHTON, The Dome
11 June – WOLVERHAMPTON, The Wulfrun At The Halls
12 June – MANCHESTER, O2 Apollo
13 June – GATESHEAD, The Glasshouse
15 June – LIVERPOOL, Olympia
16 June – NORWICH, Nick Rayns LCR, UEA
18 June – PORTSMOUTH, Guildhall
20 June – SCARBOROUGH, The Spa 

Spent 2 weeks foh babysitting for Ne-Yo and Mario on their ongoing Champagne & Roses World Tour. Ten sold out UK arena shows. Providing technical support to their engineers on Digico consoles with Waves packages and making sure all the boxes went back on the right trucks at the end of the night. Great production all round.

The tour was tinged with sadness following the sudden death of production manager Joe Falcón. He was a joy to work with, always had time for every other member of the crew and went out of his way to make sure people were being treated well and with respect. He will be missed.

Full write up in tpi magazine.
https://www.tpimagazine.com/ne-yos-champagne-roses-tour-transatlantic-collaboration-enhances-timeless-production-values/

Case study by Axiom Events, the production supplier.
https://axiomevents.co.uk/case-study/ne-yo-champagne-roses-tour/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kjm3

Monitor Engineer for the guest artists at this event recorded in Manchester AO Arena for broadcast on BBC One and BBC Radio Two in March 2023.
Orchestra monitors mixed by Françoise Le Moignan. FOH mixed by Tom Gelissen. Produced by tbi media.

Monitor engineer for band and guest artists. Recorded at Wembley Arena for broadcast on ITV and featuring Cirque du Soleil, Disney’s Frozen The Musical, Adam Lambert, Tom Grennan, Sugababes, Katherine Jenkins, and more. Produced by tbi media.

https://tbimedia.co.uk/project/the-national-lotterys-new-years-eve-big-bash/