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.
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.
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.
Sent out on the long walk to FOH once again to look after visiting engineers and ocassionally push faders for 2 nights of pop. Digico turned up with chocolates and mince pies. Only seems fair, we did put 10 of their desks in (they missed a second SD11 looking after system stuff at front of house), and yes it was cold.
Because plugging things in doesn't have to be difficult.
