Give It a Name began in 2005 and soon became established as the biggest indoor rock festival in the UK. This year it has expanded - beginning in Germany at venues in Berlin and Cologne, followed by Paris, before heading to the UK. A weekend crowd of more than 25,000 came to Earls Court alone for a bill dominated by pop-punk and emo bands like H.I.M from Finland, Brand New and Juliette & The Licks from the USA, and Enter Shikari from the UK.
SSE Audio Group supplied three identical systems for the weekend-long event, with crews going to Earls Court London, the NIA Birmingham and the SECC Glasgow. Each system comprised left/right hangs of 23x Geo T4805 plus 3x Geo T2815s, with a centre cluster of 5x GEO T cabinets, and 12x CD18s each side. At a pair of Midas Heritage 3000s out front, the crews were working to 5-minute changeovers.
On behalf of SSE in London, seasoned engineers Alex Hall and Matthew Kettle were on hand to babysit and to mix a few bands themselves. Kettle has made extensive use of Nexo's flagship tangent array system on several tours with The White Stripes. "I always find it easy to mix on Geo T, and frankly I am surprised that Nexo has found a way to improve it," he says. "With the new software, the high end of the Geo T sounds even better than it was before, you can hear lots of headroom, and I was really pleased by the way the system and the subs sat together."
(Jim Evans)
