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| The University of Hertfordshire’s student
facilities has undergone a mammoth, 4 year, complete redesign. The Hatfield
campus now boasts a tremendous £38 million venue, The Forum. The AV contractor,
TMC Ltd, installed the high spec custom built facilities with a uniquely
technical infrastructure and, of course, in the midst of it all - the industry
standard Avolites Pearl 2010 shines. With a non-stop line of Academy music group’s knocking at their doors, the Forum has been receiving much critical acclaim in its short six month life. Among those groups the Noisettes have recently played in what was described as ‘their fastest sell-out yet’. Known as a London punk-blues band, the Noisettes arrived to perform for a special gig in March. The band are best known for their hit song ‘Don't Upset The Rhythm’, which appeared on the advert for the Mazda 2 - taking the charts by storm. |
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| Alex Cerio, better known as Junior, took the
show by the horns with support of production company NEG Earth. Junior’s
experience of the venue is equally positive, with a great crew and stage manager
he found ‘everything worked perfectly’. By using the in-house console he
comments ‘even though it was a disco load out it was a very relaxed set up with
plenty time to go, based on a TV studio style design. Using 2k Fresnels and 5K
Sky Pans. Junior says ‘You can’t really go wrong with Avolites....especially experts. Titan threw me slightly when i first met it, but it was Sunday at Glastonbury - i simply hadn’t been aware it existed until then, but with any avo desk i know it'll be fine. I know them well and it allows me to concentrate on the design and content instead of how to achieve the look needed. If on a gig where set up and programming time is short Pearl is a great choice - personally i find it easier to build a show on the fly with them.’ |
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| Noisettes The punk spirit of the London trio are made up of singer and bassist Shingai Shoniwa, guitarist Dan Smith and drummer Jamie Morrison. Formed in 2003 they met and at the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology. quickly formed a reputation for being one of the rowdiest live acts in London. Two years on from their debut album and the band can be seen live as part of this year’s line up at Lovebox festival, which takes place this July. |
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