UK - Nexo’s compact and cost-effective Geo M Series delivers flexibility to hard-working rental companies required to cover a large range of events with little downtime between them.
One such company is Oxfordshire-based Event Production Services, which has seen a busy summer deploying its Geo M inventory on a variety of jobs all over its home UK county and beyond.
Four stages at the 25th anniversary Truck Festival at Hill Farm in Steventon were rigged this year by EPS, with Geo M12 and Nexo MSUB18s in service on stages 4 and 5, hosting everything from comedy to rock bands and each covering an audience of approximately 2,000 people.
“We got lots of compliments at Truck Festival from artists and audience alike, including people saying that these were the best-sounding stages on the site,” reports EPS managing director Robert Nisbet. “Geo M12 is the perfect medium-format system. It’s large enough to cope well without being too unwieldly to transport and deploy.
“The rigging is very intuitive – we only need to show people once – and the lightweight ground-stacking bars make it really easy to use on smaller jobs.”
Monitors for EPS’ Truck Festival stages were provided by speakers from Nexo’s P+ Series point source range. “We use them everywhere and they’re fantastic,” says Nisbet.
The Oxford Festival of the Arts takes place over several weeks during which the independent school that hosts it must continue to operate as normal. “With a varied line-up of interviews, book signings, music events and film showings, this setup had to be flexible and unobtrusive to accommodate other users of the space,” says Nisbet. “We used small ground stacks of Geo M6 leaving the subs on wheel boards to allow for quick deployment.”
Speed was also of the essence at the Cowley Road Carnival where the EPS team could only access the site on the day and had to be ready to start at 11.00AM. This time, ground stacks of three Geo M12 on M18SUBs delivered all the power and headroom necessary for a variety of performances ranging from samba and steel bands through to UK Soca artist Scrappy.
Nisbet is also a big fan of the company’s ID Series speakers. “We provided full production for Oxford Fashion Studio’s catwalk show in Devonshire Square during London Fashion Week. The visual aesthetic was extremely important, so we used Nexo ID24s – a little speaker that certainly doesn’t sound little.”
In addition to versatile inventory, a highly experienced team and a commitment to ‘delivering the detail’, strategic collaborations with other production companies are an important part of the EPS success story.
“Our friends at Live Wire in Banbury do a lot of work in motorsport where the ID24 also often fits the bill,” says Nisbet. “We’ve sold them our ID Series stock and replaced it with new from Nexo, so together we can cover a larger range of events. It’s all part of that Nexo family feeling.”
