UK - After an 18-month break The Hives made their UK debut performance at the Carling Reading and Leeds festivals and have continued to travel the UK, putting on their notoriously dramatic live shows in promotion of their new album 'Tyrannosaurus Hives'. SSE Hire supplied the audio for the tour installing a Nexo Geo Tangent array system for the Brixton Academy show. After using the Nexo Geo T at the Carling summer festivals Dave Lamb (FOH) specified the system for the Brixton show. The system included 28 Geo T 4805 cabinets, 6 Geo T 2815 cabinets and 16 CD18 sub-bass cabinets driven by Camco amplification. Dave Lamb mixed on a Midas XL4 with a range of Yamaha and Lexicon effects and Mark Nicholls (monitors) used a Midas XL3 with Klark Teknik EQ and SSE MB4 stage monitors. Fredrik Holmstedt, who handed over monitors for the UK tour to Mark Nicholls in order tofulfil the role of production manager, has reportedly been very happy with the service and particularly impressed by Huw Richards and Rob Hughes, SSE's crew personnel on the tour.
(Lee Baldock)
