Lilith Festival was founded in 1997 after McLachlan became frustrated with concert promoters and radio stations which refused to feature two female musicians in a row. In Australia local acts Kate Miller-Heidke and The Verses joined her for the five concert tour.
Jands Production Services provided the audio equipment and crew for veteran front of house engineer Gary Stokes who has toured with Sarah for close to 21 years.
Included in the gear list was a Soundcraft Vi6 digital mixing console which Stokes first became acquainted with not so long ago when he was mixing for French-American singer Madeleine Peyroux.
"She was opening for Diana Krall whose FOH guy uses a Soundcraft Vi6 and I quite liked it," says Stokes. "The Soundcraft Vi6 delivers value for money, meeting most of my needs at a lower price point than other digital consoles. I would say its prime attraction is its' user-configurability. I really like Version 4 of the Soundcraft software as it allows more flexibility when configuring the faders to be different things. They've implemented their user layers on their fader pages and that allows you to customise different layers to be different things."
(Jim Evans)
