event lighting & sound rental | Peak Hire Ltd

Peak Hire were proud to supply lighting, rigging and sound reinforcement services recently to the Baptist Conference in Bournemouth. After installing 8 tonnes of equipment during the previous Thursday, the Monday get out took just two and a half hours, something of a record. On site we deployed 150 feet of Litec truss, 12 Lodestar motors, EAW line array, 12 Martin Mac700, 4 Martin Mac500, 8 Studio Due Archileds and 26kw of Starlettes and ETC Source Four pars and profiles. A 17 way comms system, including 4 radiocomms, kept technicians in touch. The house worship band required a 9 way monitor mix, with sound provision for front stage fills, signer and lectern monitors. The EAW line array, with flown subs, kept the stage apron clear, and provided clean, even sound coverage throughout the 4200 capacity hall.

See more images from this event here:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/peakhire/

Peak Hire provided lighting services to the recent Illegal Eagles appearance in Cheltenham.

For the third successive year, New Year’s Eve has meant just one thing – the Cheltenham Town Hall New Year’s Eve Party. This year we provided the lighting system for the event, ably controlled by LD Andy Bartlett.

We used 6 Mac700 washes, 4 Mac700 profiles, 4 Mac500 profiles and 4 Studio Due CS4 moving head lights, complemented by ETC profiles, Martin Atomics and Studio Due Archileds, mounted on a re-designed stage truss system and flown trusses. This year entertainment was provided by Firefly and a good time was had by all.

We were delighted to once again be working with Severn Sound and Gloucester City Council down at Gloucester Docks. Last time we were here, our sound team were supporting the Gloucester Pirates! Weekend, but for the Gloucester Lights switch on we provided complete lighting, power, sound and trailer stage solutions.

The build for the event went very well and despite the cold and rain we were ready for the first acts to sound check right on time. The event saw the culmination of the parade through the centre of Gloucester, which saw Father Christmas, the Mayor of Gloucester and I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, King of the Jungle Christopher Biggins.

Peak Hire provided all of the technical infrastructure to make the event a success and with thousands of people in attendance, everything went according to plan.

Peak Hire was delighted to continue our close relationship with the Cheltenham Literature Festival as once again we provided production lighting, site power and site lighting for this internationally recognised event. Our team installed lighting and power into temporary and permanent venues, and worked closely with the organisers to ensure that the right equipment was in the right place at the right time. The 2008 event was again a success and we look forward to working with the team in 2009.

Peak Hire were very proud recently to provide all tech support to a fundraising evening organised by Action Against Hunger. This included 2 cameras, 6 plasma screens, radiomics and sound systems, and the beautiful venue, Londons’ Royal Exchange, was lit with City Colours, Archileds and Mac500 heads. The event was called Too Many Critics and featured top food critics preparing dishes for top chefs, in an entertaining role reversal. A charity auction followed and the event was a great success.

Following a very busy summer, Peak Hire headed to London and the PLASA show. With heavy investments in our sound stocks over the last 18 months, it finally came the chance for the lighting department to open the chequebook – the result was five figure investment in new lighting equipment, ready for winter 2008, including Avolites Pearl 2008, Avolites Art2000 dimmer racks and eight Studio Due Archileds.

We are really pleased to have just finished work on the 2008 Lambeth Conference – the worldwide conference which brings together Anglican Ministers from all over the globe and which only takes place every ten years.

Peak were originally asked to provide event power supplies and event site distribution for the three week conference at the University of Kent at Canterbury, but with just a few weeks to go we were delighted to be awarded the contract for conference sound in both main venues as well.

The main plenary sessions took place in a custom designed temporary structure, within which we flew our EAW line array PA speakers from our Litec FlyinTowers. Front of house sound control came from our Soundcraft MH3 and monitors were driven by a A&H ML4000.

The EAW KF730 line arrays are a delight to deploy, and despite some last minute changes to the layout of the venue, we were able to quickly adapt allowing for even coverage throughout the 1600 seat auditorium. The new EAW UX8800 processors sound fantastic!

In the Spouses’ Venue, we installed a Mach system to support both speeches and musical acts. The diversity of stage activity meant the system needed to be at its most flexible. The system was controlled by a Yamaha M7CL desk.

In total, four generators were deployed as two pairs of sync’d sets – and for added peace of mind they were remote monitored to ensure that if there were any problems, engineers could be on site as soon as possible.

After three weeks of being on site, we are pleased to report that there were no problems with the system set up or solution we installed. The event received much high profile news coverage, including the BBC, Sky and other worldwide news organisations.

You can also see more photos on the official event Flickr site.

Despite being out on the road since the beginning of July, our back-to-back season of events still hasn’t finished. Our team concluded the Lambeth Conference de-rig and moved straight to Walsingham in Norfolk for the second year at the Walsingham Youth Pilgrimage.

As last year, the event takes place on a totally Greenfield site, so we provided event power supplies, generators and power distribution, as well as lighting and sound solutions for the venues.

Our team of technicians worked closely with the organisers to ensure that the shows ran as smoothly as possible. We utilised our Mach sound system, new Soundcraft MH2 desk, and Martin Mac 500, 600 and 700 moving heads with Pearl control desk.

The event was a great success and we look forward to working with the team again on the 2009 event.

We were just back from Subway’s Picnic Rocks, when we were straight back out the door to prepare for two more festival events. The 2000 Trees Festival is now in its second year and, having supported the event from the very start we are pleased to once again be providing sound and light solutions to the event.

Although the event is only two years old, all the tickets sold in advance of the event, and the festival was the proud recipient of a Greener Festival award for their work on making the event as low impact as possible.

We used our EAW line array sound system on the Treehouse (main stage), supported by an EAW JFX system in the Leaf Lounge. Lighting came from our stocks of Martin moving heads, ETC Source Four pars and Studio Due CS2’s with strobes and blinders, controlled using our Avo Pearl.