Featured acts included the Capoeira Knights from Brazil, the Zawose Family from Tanzania, Children of the Khmer from Cambodia and Hemingway's Havana from Cuba. The shows proved a runaway success with The World@St George's West ultimately winning the Jack Tinker Spirit of the Fringe venue award.
As this was a purely voluntary affair, Real World's Richard Chappell needed to pull things together in the most cost effective way possible and, knowing that it was the busiest time of year for rental companies, decided to approach manufacturers direct for the equipment he needed.
"If I talk to anyone in the PA companies I know, they say that if you need a good crossover unit to do interesting things, you get an XTA in," he says. "I don't think there's anything else that does the same job. It's just a great and easy piece of gear to use. So I approached XTA and they were kind enough to give me a DP448 unit to use.
"We had quite a complicated way of setting up the system in the church and the 448 was brilliant for that. We had a balcony system and a main hung system and we had to split the audio between the two and separate off some sub bass. The unit was crucial for that. We couldn't have done it without it."
(Jim Evans)
