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The Association of British Neurologists annual meeting was held in May at Bournemouth’s BIC. Peak Hire were delighted to be appointed by Affinity Events Ltd as technical providers to two venues, supplying set, sound and lighting equipment for the four day conference.

London’s Millbank Cinema and Media Centre was the venue for the Acevo summit with The Conservative Party. Peak Hire provided staging, set, lighting and sound systems, operated by our technicians.

Peak Hire provided supplementary sub bass, radiomic and playback sound , effect haze and smoke machines, a 3w laser system, Mac700 profiles, LDR Tono 2kw fresnels and our new Litec 6m truss circle showing its’ versatility as a sqircle. None of our crew were harmed during the making of this event. Please click here for the rest of the photo set.

Using our new 6m truss circle and Studio Due Archibars, more pictures from this event can be seen here.

For the festive season in Gloucester, we are delighted to be involved with the Spiegeltent in Kings Square. The impressive timber and canvas construction is adorned with stained glass and mirror detail. Peak Hire provided the house lighting rig, all site lighting and electrical services, and for each of the entertainment evenings, full sound and stage lighting support.

Please visit our Flickr site here for more pics.

The Centaur is the award-winning 2600 square metre venue at Cheltenham Racecourse, and featured recently a run of corporate Christmas Party evenings. Peak Hire were engaged to provide sound and lighting equipment to supplement the in-house rigs. We used Martin Mac700 wash and profile moving heads, Shure ULX radiomics, EAW subs and a demo Venue SC48 sound desk from Digidesign, possibly soon to become part of our hire stock following full evaluation.

Photo and lighting design credits to Andy Bartlett, and sound engineering/desk test by Dan Keating.

In Canterbury recently we provided rigging and power services for a production of the pantomime Peter Pan. Due to the closure and subsequent demolition of the local Marlowe Theatre, the production was moved to a temporary site within a 60m x 45m Big Top. The brief included a 34m flying track for Peter and Wendy to fly above the audience, as well as full provision of rigging for all lighting and sound systems. This was achieved utilising a 15m box of Litec QL52A truss, with a Thomas Supertruss diagonal. We also provided the massive 15m x 4m upstage screen surround, hung from a ground supported 17m truss, which will be used during the mornings of the panto run to show feature films. A 17m climbing truss was deployed downstage, which will also be used for flying characters across stage.

Power provision includes supplies to stage lighting and sound, audio-visual, foyer concessions, bar, toilets, heating, worklights, floodlights, emergency lighting and  dressing rooms. The distributed power is fed from three generators, including full production power emergency backup.

The panto runs from 5th December to 17th January, and the big top arena will also be used for individual shows by Jane McDonald, Rick Wakeman, Hayley Westenra and Snow White on Ice.

You can see the video filmed at the St Albans big top event we did in July here:  The Marlowe Theatre Arena Tour with Paul Hendy

The link to the Marlowe Theatre Arena is here

More photos from the installation can be seen on our Flickr site here

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Once again we were delighted to service the sound and lighting requirements for the fantastic 2000 Trees Festival at Withington. This year we deployed EAW KF850/SB1002 stacks on mainstage, and with the change to a 12m Orbit stage, the chance to install a bigger brighter lighting rig.  See more of our photos from this event on http://www.flickr.com/photos/peakhire