The Here and Now Christmas tour kicked off in Newcastle on 12 December at the Telewest Arena. It then visited Brighton, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bournemouth, Wembley, the London Arena, Sheffield and finally Manchester on 22 December. The line-up of performers included Human League, 5 Star, Kim Wilde, Dollar, Visage and many more from the decade that fashion forgot.
The sound company for the tour, Capital Sound, with the company's Mark Ballard acting as FOH engineer for the tour. Working alongside him were Becky Pell as monitor engineer, James Gebhard as monitor engineer/system technician and Andy Banks as system technician.
The Aztec Live Performance console is Audient's first Live Console and can be used both on the road or in a fixed installation. Features of the desk include separate L/C/R busses with individual trims on each of the output faders, 8 audio sub group outputs with balanced inserts, two additional stereo line inputs and a stereo ambience mic input, 4 band EQ with parametric mids, sweep HF and LF with switched bell/shelf curves plus sweep Hi-Pass filter and optional full stereo input modules.
(Ruth Rossington)
