UK - Since releasing their debut album Costello Music last autumn, The Fratellis have been hard at work promoting it with live dates. Helping them on their way has been Turbosound, whose NuQ loudspeakers played a major part in the band's recent UK tour.

Comprising twelve dates in Nottingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham and London, SSE supplied the tour's audio requirements with Turbosound veterans Britannia Row supplying the monitor system, including Turbosound NuQ-15s, self-powered TA-500DP Aspect Wides and, in Glasgow and London, self-powered NuQ-12DPs.

The Fratellis like the sound levels on stage to be relatively high, so one three-way TA-500DP was used each side of the stage as a side-fill, along with nine 15" 2-way bi-amped NuQ-15s on the stage as wedge monitors - three pairs across the front, one each side of the drummer and one by bass guitarist Barry Fratelli's backline equipment.

"Turbosound's development director Dominic Harter suggested I try the NuQ-15s, partly because they have similar performance to the TFM-450s but are a little lighter," says the band's monitor engineer Antony King. "And the band really liked them. What I like is the fact that you can move away from them, but you can still hear that they're there - the sound doesn't just disappear as it does with many monitors. They're perfect for theatre-sized venues and I will certainly be specifying them for the next tour."

(Jim Evans)


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