He said: "When we came to pack away the kit after the last date in Brixton, Brandon Reece and myself just looked at each other in disbelief. I can honestly say that I have never seen a line system go more than four or five weeks without a problem cropping up, let alone two years, and I've been in this business for 15 years."
Niall Holden, MD at VDC Trading said: "It's always great when customers take the trouble to give us feedback. We deliver 'no headache' solutions for our customers, based on quality products and service every time. The result is satisfied customers, confident in the equipment they have ordered. Low maintenance no hassle VDC products deliver best performance and value for money - what more can you ask?"
Nelson's decision to work with VDC was driven in part by his experience of stage boxes designed by VDC when he worked at Concert Systems, which he had found very user friendly and flexible. In addition he had "always been impressed with VDC multi pin lines, which are incredibly robust and easy to use".
In fact, the stage boxes LEE designed for Placebo drew heavily on the VDC design, whilst Nelson eventually asked VDC to create all the multi pins required for the tour. He said: "The fact is, VDC could create a multi pin to the right spec in 90 minutes, when it would have taken us about six hours."
He continues: "Throughout the tour, you're obviously well aware that nothing has broken yet, but you say nothing for fear of tempting fate. These cables get dragged around, trodden on and generally beaten up pretty much non-stop for two years, so things can go wrong at any time. I think the worse issue we had was a slightly bent pin. With most multi pins you only have to look at a bent pin and it'll break off. The VDC pin went back into shape like a dream. "
He concluded: "You might pay a little more for VDC gear, but the customer service and technical expertise is unrivalled and the manufacturing spec is absolutely top notch. This was a proper joint effort with VDC and I am incredibly proud of the achievements that came out of it."
(Jim Evans)
