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DiGiCo SD7 Helps The Who Perform Quadrophenia In Quadraphonic At TCT BenefitFor the tenth year of the Teenage Cancer Trust’s Royal Albert Hall concerts, patron Roger Daltrey and a supporting cast of hundreds laid on something very special. Ten shows, all featuring very high profile artists, which concluded with The Who playing their legendary Quadrophenia album… in quadraphonic. The March series of shows featured artists as diverse as Noel Gallagher, The Specials, the reformed Suede, JLS, Arctic Monkeys, Lemar, Diana Vickers, comedians Jimmy Carr, Rhod Gilbert, Noel Fielding and a host of support acts. The Who’s performance was a fitting climax, with the band’s Front of House engineer Paul Ramsay manning his preferred DiGiCo SD7 console, while a pair of D5s handled monitors. 
Billy Elliott Launches Simultaneous US Tours With DigiCo SD7T And SD8 Consoles In Starring RolesAfter dazzling audiences on Broadway, and scoring a total of twenty prestigious Tony and Drama Desk Awards, including Best Sound Design, the theatrical adaptation of the popular movie, “Billy Elliot”, about a coal miner's son who dreams to dance is planned to hit the road on two simultaneous U.S. tours later this year. Based on the New York production, both touring productions will employ customized DiGiCo SD7T’s at front of house and substage, and SD8’s to mix the band’s monitors, as specified by sound designer Paul Arditti. Since its original debut in London in 2005, the show has enjoyed continued success over the years with numerous adaptations. For the Broadway production, which launched in 2008. Arditti configured a DiGiCo D5T system from the ground up with help from associates John Owens (UK) and Tony Smolenski (US), and Masque Sound, the US-based theater sound specialist. For the two new touring outfits, Arditti chose the SD7T / SD8 combination 
Peter Gabriel Scratches His Back With The DiGiCo SD7When Peter Gabriel decided to promote his latest album Scratch My Back via select live shows with a 54-piece orchestra, an immediate concern was how the Front of House mix position would accommodate the exacting audio requirements. The answer was a DiGiCo SD7, with enough inputs to make Gabriel’s New Blood tour both a reality and a major success. Gabriel is different things to different people. To some he will always be the ‘proper’ Genesis frontman, to others a leading light in world music, to yet more the face in the Sledgehammer video. One thing he is not, however, is predictable. So recording a covers album and then promoting it via live shows with the New Blood Orchestra was just another innovative plan from a thoroughly progressive artist. 
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Inside This Issue
 DiGiCo SD7 Makes Light Work At The LytteltonThe Lyttelton Theatre of London’s National Theatre is one of the UK’s most prolific hotbeds of stage creativity, which means its technical team has to cope with changing between very different productions on an almost nightly basis. But with a DiGiCo SD7 recently installed in the South Bank premises, life is now a little easier.
DiGiCo SD8 Recruited For Navy Thank You Show Aboard The USS Stennis Aircraft CarrierPerhaps one of the more unusual venues a DiGiCo console has been recruited into was aboard The USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier this past March. Pop-punk band, Bowling for Soup, were also enlisted by Navy Entertainment to play the ‘thank you’ concert for more than 2500 crew members at the Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego. Mambo Sound of Long Beach provided the backline including a DiGiCo SD8 for FOH, with a D.A.S. line array PA system supplied by DBS Sound & Lighting of Irwindale. 
SD7 Helps Sound By Design Raise The Corporate BarWhen it comes to corporate events, London doesn’t see many much bigger than the five-day event which was hosted by multi-level selling business Forever Living Products at Wembley Arena in March. Featuring a mix of live entertainment and presentations that lasted for up to eight hours each day, the company’s annual European Rally required an audio production capable of handling literally anything - and ensuring every delegate heard every nuance. 
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