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Category: Concerts

  • Groovin the Moo Festival 2010

    The 2010 Groovin the Moo festival took a big leap in production from the previous years. The festival promoters had asked how they could step up the production levels without too large an infrastructure change.

    The festival featured Silverchair, Vampire Weekend, Empire of the Sun, Tegan and Sara, Grinspoon and many more and with such a large number of acts the promoter was keen to upgrade the system and maintain consistency across the festivals.

    Bruce Johnston helped out as the festival production manager with Natalie Earles as the production assistant. James Leydon also was the advance production manager for the Townsville and Canberra sites.

    Johnston Audio supplied a complete turnkey production management service to the festival.

    Date

    May 1-2, 8-9, 15

    Bendigo – Maitland

    Main stage 1 & 2

    24 x L-Acoustics VDosc
    24 x L-Acoustics SB218
    12 x L-Acoustics ARCs

    FOH Consoles

    2 x Digidesign Profile consoles

    Monitor consoles

    2 x Yamaha PM5D consoles
    1 x Digidesign Profile
    1 x Digidesign D-show

    Stage monitors

    16 x Wayloud wedges
    16 x Nexo PS15 wedges
    4 x Nexo Alpha side-fill systems

    JAS Crew

    FOH system tech: Doug Pringle
    FOH system tech: Jock Bain
    Monitor system Tech: Nicholas Brunney
    Monitor system Tech: Mark Nicholls
    Audio system tech: Jamie Davidson
    Audio system tech: Otavio ‘Guto !!’ Santos

    Townsville – Canberra

    Main stage 1 & 2

    24 x L-Acoustics VDosc
    24 x Wayloud SB218
    12 x L-Acoustics ARCs

    FOH Consoles

    2 x Digidesign Profile consoles

    Monitor consoles

    2 x Yamaha PM5D consoles

    Stage monitors

    16 x Wayloud wedges
    16 x Nexo PS15 wedges
    4 x Nexo Alpha side-fill systems

    JAS Crew

    FOH system tech: Peter O’Leary
    FOH system tech: Nathan McGuinness
    Monitor system Tech: Mathew “Boz” Boaro
    Monitor system Tech: Simon Keet
    Audio system tech: Shaun Ayles
    Audio system tech: Sam Figalo (Townsville only) Gordon Wood (Maitland only)

  • Lady Gaga Tour March 2010

    Lady Gaga hit Australia for the Monster Ball tour. It was the first Lady Gaga solo tour and a monster show that featured an elaborate stage set. The shows ran for over 2 hours with numerous costume changes and sets that morphed constantly between songs, moving from New York cityscapes to Tim Burton-esque dream worlds

    Eighth Day Sound Systems, Inc supplied the console and monitor package along with 6 crew. JAS supplied the stacks and racks along with an additional 2 audio crew.

    Dates

    March 17 – April 9

    System

    60 x D&B J8/12
    8 x D&B J-sub
    18 x D&B B2
    24 x L-Acoustics dV-Dosc
    64 x 1 ton motors.

    JAS Crew

    Audio system tech: Josh De Jong
    Audio system tech: Peter O’Leary

  • The Pixies Tour 2010

        Photos courtesy of Stephen Booth Photography

     

    The Pixies returned to Australia for a sell out national tour. JAS provided a D&B J series system along with a M4 monitor system.

    In a sign of things to come the shows were recorded live and CDs were available at the end of the show.

    DATES

    March 14 – 27

    SYSTEM

    32 x D&B J8/12 line array boxes
    12 x D&B J-sub
    6 x Q7
    2 x Yamaha PM5DRH
    3 x DV-Dosc sidefill systems
    12 x D&B M4 wedges

    JAS Crew

    FOH system tech: Craig Gordon
    Monitor system Tech: Mathew “Boz” Boaro
    Audio system tech: Nathan McGuinness

        Photos courtesy of Stephen Booth Photography Click to enlarge

  • Melbourne Grand Prix 2010

    Held at the St Kilda and South Melbourne Albert Park race course, Johnston Audio was again asked to supply audio for the Melbourne Grand Prix after race concert. This year’s event ran over 2 nights with Simple Minds and Australia’s Powderfinger performing. A huge crowd of 30,000 people stayed for the shows.

    Date

    March 25-28 2010

    Main speaker system

    30 x V-Dosc
    24 x SB218

    Delay speaker system

    16 x V-Dosc

    FOH control

    1 x Digidesign profile FOH console
    1 x Midas XL4 console

    Monitor system

    2 x Yamaha PM5D monitor console
    18 x Wayloud wedge

    JAS crew

    FOH system tech: Craig Gordon
    Monitor system Tech: Mark Crawley
    Audio system tech: Otavio ‘Guto!!’ Santos
    Audio system tech: John Watterson

  • Future Music Festival 2010

    2010’s Future Music Festival featured The Prodigy, Empire Of The Sun, Franz Ferdinand, David Guetta and co along with new musical acts including: Spank Rock, Way Out West, Operator Please, Bag Raiders, Space Invadas and Jump Jump Dance Dance!

    Dates

    Feb 27-28, March 6-8

    Melbourne Festival

    Main stage

    24 x L-Acoustics V-Dosc
    24 x L-Acoustics SB218

    Stage 2

    24 x D&B J
    18 x D&B B2 sub
    1 x Digidesign Profile FOH console
    1 x Yamaha PM5D
    12 x D&B M4 wedge
    2 x Nexo Alpha E side-fill systems

    Stage 3

    16 x D&B J
    12 x D&B J- sub
    1 x Digidesign Profile FOH console
    1 x Yamaha PM5D
    12 x Wayloud wedge
    2 x Nexo Alpha E side-fill systems

    Sydney festival

    Main stage

    24 x L-Acoustics V-Dosc
    24 x L-Acoustics SB218

    Adelaide festival

    Main stage

    24 x L-Acoustics V-Dosc
    24 x L-Acoustics SB218

    Prodigy package

    Consoles

    2 x Midas XL3
    3 x quad D&B C4 side-fill systems Loud!!!
    16 x D&B M2 wedges

    Franz Ferdinand package

    1 x Digidesign Profile FOH console
    1 x Yamaha PM5D monitor console
    2 x D&B M2 wedges

  • Whitney Houston 2010

    Whitney Houston hit Australia for her first tour here in over 20 years. JAS was asked to supply the D&B J system while the monitor and FOH package came from 8th Day sound.

    DATES

    Wednesday, 24 February – Sydney
    Saturday, 27 February – Hunter Valley
    Monday, 1 March – Melbourne
    Thursday, 4 March – Adelaide
    Saturday, 6-7 March – Perth

    SYSTEM

    60 x D&B J8/12 line array boxes.
    12 x D&B J-subs.
    6 x D&B B2
    8 x D&B Q7

    JAS Crew

    FOH system tech: Doug Pringle
    Audio system tech: Eric Sanderson-Evans

  • Soundwave Festival 2010

    This year’s soundwave festival was a sell-out success and rocked Australia. With bands like Faith no More, Placebo, AFI, Paramore, Jimmy Eat World, Janes Addiction and many more it made for a huge few weeks.
    The festival kicked off in Brisbane and ran over 2 long weekends.

    With the 2 overnight festival events, JAS supplied the audio for the main stages 1 & 2 and it was decided this year to tour the systems and duplicate the audio. V-Dosc speakers were used to provide consistency throughout the festivals and sideshows at the Horden Pavilion and Festival hall which both have in-house V-Dosc systems.

    JAS supplied a total of 10 Digidesign Profile console systems and also Jamie Davidson as the console tech for the entire run.

    Dates

    February 20-21, 26-27
    March 1

    SYSTEM A

    Main stage 1 & 2
    36 x V-Dosc over 3 x 12 hangs
    36 x SB218
    12 x ARC

    FOH Consoles

    3 x Digidesign Profile consoles
    1 x Digidesign D-show

    Monitor consoles

    2 x Yamaha PM5D consoles
    1 x Digidesign Profile
    1 x Digidesign D-show

    Stage monitors

    24 x Wayloud wedges
    16 x Nexo PS15 wedges
    4 x Nexo Alpha side-fill systems

    JAS Crew

    FOH system tech: Jock Bain
    FOH system tech: Nathan McGuinness
    Monitor system Tech: Mathew “Boz” Boaro
    Monitor system Tech: Dave Leggatt
    Audio system tech: Shaun Ayles
    Audio system tech: Stephen Brown
    Audio system tech: Jamie Davidson

    SYSTEM B

    Main stage 1 & 2
    36 x V-Dosc over 3 x 12 hangs
    36 x Wayloud SB218
    12 x ARC

    FOH Consoles

    3 x Digidesign Profile consoles
    1 x Digidesign D-show

    Monitor consoles

    2 x Yamaha PM5D consoles
    1 x Digidesign Profile
    1 x Digidesign D-show

    Stage monitors

    24 x Wayloud wedges
    16 x Nexo PS15 wedges
    4 x Nexo Alpha sidefill systems

    JAS Crew

    FOH system tech: Peter O’leary
    FOH system tech: Josh DeJong
    Monitor system Tech: Richie Robinson
    Monitor system Tech: Mark Nicholls
    Audio system tech: Nahuel Gutierrez
    Audio system tech: Otavio ‘Guto!!’ Santos
    Audio system tech: Scott Barry

  • Rob Thomas 2010

    Rob Thomas hit Australia for the first time on a solo tour and a D&B system was requested. Jim Yakaistori contacted us and mentioned he was keen to us the J system and ran us through what he was looking for. It ended up being quite a substantial setup.

    JAS supplied 2 x 96ch Digidesign console systems with 2 x HD3 pro-tools recording/playback systems.

    A surprise at the Melbourne show was INXS who turned up and played the last 3 songs with Rob Thomas with a hint of what might be coming later in the year.

    The tour ran through a combination of arenas and wineries throughout Australia.

    DATES

    February 12-13

    SYSTEM

    48 x D&B J8 & J12 line array boxes.
    16 x D&B J-Subs. There was a combination of flown and ground sub J-subs.
    16 x D&B M2 wedges
    Digidesign 96ch FOH console
    Digidesign Pro-tools HD3 system FOH
    Digidesign 96ch FOH monitor console
    Digidesign Pro-tools HD3 system Monitors

    JAS crew

    FOH system tech: Doug Pringle
    Monitor system Tech: Conor Dunne
    Audio system tech: Nicholas Brunney

  • AC/DC Black Ice World Tour

    AC/DC, Australia’s most successful rock and roll band, with sales of over 200 million records worldwide, returned home in February as part of their Black Ice World Tour. It was the band’s first Australian tour since 2001.

    The main loudspeaker arrays, for the tour, were Electro-Voice X-Array while Jands Production Services provided Clair Audio I5 cabinets for the side hands and delays. For the stadium shows JBL Vertec cabinets were used ito supplement the system.

    Dates February 11, 2010 – March 8, 2010
    Melbourne Etihad Stadium – February 11, 13, 15
    Sydney ANZ Stadium – February 18, 20, 22
    Brisbane QSAC Stadium – February 25, 27
    Adelaide Adelaide Oval – March 2
    Perth Subiaco Oval – March 6, 8
    JPS Crew  
      Nick Giameos
    Delay Crew – Sydney Karl Sullivan, Dave Richardson, Paul Schofield, Simon Farrell, John Kerns
    Speaker System Clair Bros Audio
      20 x Clair i5 10° Speaker Cabinet
      8 x Clair i5 5° Speaker Cabinet
      8 x Clair i5 2.5° Speaker Cabinet
      30 x JBL Vertec VT4889
      14 x Crest/QSC Amp Rack
      20 x Crown MA5002VZ
    FOH Drive System  
      10 x Clair iO Controller
      1 x Gateway Motion 1200 Tablet PC

  • Ronan Keating Tour 2010

    International superstar Ronan Keating toured Australia in January 2010 for his first concert tour in six years. The Irish star performed indoor stadium concerts in Melbourne and Sydney, and seven ‘A Day On The Green’ winery events around the country.

    JAS supplied a 48 cabinet L-Acoustics V-Dosc / dVDosc system for the arena shows and a smaller duplicate system for the wineries.

    Dates

    January 20 – February 2 2010

    System

    36 x V-Dosc
    12 x dVDosc
    24 x SB218 subs
    8 x ARC
    1 x Digidesign Profile monitor console
    1 x Digidesign D-Show FOH console
    12 x D&B M2 wedges

    Duplicate speaker system

    24 x V-Dosc
    12 x dVdosc
    24 x SB218 subs
    8 x ARC

    JAS crew

    FOH system tech: Josh De Jong
    Monitor system Tech: Dave Leggatt
    Audio system tech: Otavio ‘Guto’ Santos