event lighting & sound rental | Peak Hire Ltd

St Albans, 60m big top, 1500 guests from the UK, France, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, a medieval banquet, live bands Fox Hat and Coverstar, and DJ. For five days Peak Hire provided all stage sound, production lighting, site lighting, emergency and amenity lighting, site power systems, generators and on site carpentry.

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We provided all staging, sound, light and power to the recent Heart 102.4 Gloucestershire has Talent final in Gloucester Quays, with the benefit of  fantastic hot sunny weather.

Performing recently at GL1 Gloucester,  part of the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Mica Paris entertained an enthusiastic crowd of fans, with sound and lighting services provided by Peak Hire.

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.

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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.