The artist line-up included Reverend and The Makers, Beverley Knight, The New Beautiful South, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Ironik & Chipmunk, Helsinki, VV Brown, The Beat, Bashy, Mick Jones & the Rotten Hill Gang. Other musicians and performers including Pete Doherty, Eddie Izzard and Kelly Rowland spoke out against racism.
Adlib's team was crew chiefed by Marc Peers, the system was designed by Tony Szabo and Dave Kay was looking after FOH. They had to accommodate the assorted audio needs of all performers with quick changeovers, and so adopted a festival style flip-flop system at both ends of the multicore.
Szabo chose 16 V-DOSC speaker elements a side for the main arrays on 17m towers, coupled with 12 subs a side on the deck including centre fill subs, plus L-Acoustics ARCs and dV-DOSC stacks for front and out fills. The whole system was powered by L-Acoustics LA8 amplifiers.
At front of house Kay ran two Soundcraft Vi6 consoles assisted by Declan Fyans who covered the second board.
Monitor world was looked after by Steve Pattison and Kenny Perrin and was also designed and set up to ensure a seamless flow of technical activity between bands throughout the day. It featured two Yamaha PM5D consoles, with a Yamaha LS9-32 to run the presenter, speech and DJ channels.
The bands' backline was moved on and off stage using rolling risers, and Adlib supplied 20 MP3 low profile wedges, all powered by the new Lab.gruppen PLM amps - with inbuilt Lake processing. The side-fills were Nexo Alpha, with a couple of dV-subs to enhance the DJ/drum-fills. Sennheiser G2 IEM systems were available for specific bands, but the vast majority used the wedge system.
(Jim Evans)
