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Once again we’ve just finished our annual contract for Cheltenham Borough Council for lighting their New Year’s Eve party at Cheltenham Town Hall. The event, which as usual sold out well in advance, saw a range of generic and moving head lights provided by Peak.

Here’s another picture of the event build – all the guys in the blue are the Peak Sound and Light team in their high visibility jackets. This picture shows pit barrier in place and our line array up and in place on the giraffes (the other one is just off shot on the right).

And here is the final result – a fantastic night enjoyed by thousands of residents of Cheltenham and beyond.

“I’d like to say a HUGE thank you to all of you for your involvement in the
Christmas Lights Switch-On event on Saturday.”

Cheltenham Borough Council

It’s been a few years since Peak have provided technical support for the Cheltenham Lights switch on – but being our home town we were as keen as ever to win back the event in 2007 – and that’s just what we did. In preparation we undertook a bit of an overhaul on the Black Stage to get it ready for the event and for the 2008 season. You can now hire this stage from us and bookings are already coming in thick and fast for this year.

These two photos show the team from Peak Sound and Light rigging the event early in the morning on the day of the event – but with a stage build time of about an hour it didn’t take too long to get things sorted.

We’ll post some photos of the event itself shortly

Home to the world’s largest celebration of the humble book (according to the BBC) – is the 2007 Cheltenham Literature Festival. For this year’s event, Peak are providing site lighting and power for all of the outdoor venues, as well as lighting and rigging in the main theatre tent and Cheltenham Town Hall.

This year’s event sees talks from Top Gear presenters Richard Hammond and James May as well as Helen Mirren, Alistair Campbell and William Hague.

With over 75,000 tickets pre-sold (a record for the festival) we are very proud to continue our relationship with the event. You can see more about the event on the BBC website or on the Cheltenham Festivals’ website.

Following the success of the Making our Mark event, Affinity Events returned to Peak once again for support on a series of events for Christian Aid. Peak were employed to provide outdoor festival power distribution and onstage sound support for the series of events which took in Edinburgh, Birmingham and Cardiff. The system was tailored to each of the specific events, and saw artists such as Amy McDonald (Edinburgh), Lemar (Birmingham) and Rhythms of the City (Cardiff) take to the stage.

More information and photos can be found on the Christian Aid Cut the Carbon website: http://www.christianaid.org.uk/stoppoverty/climatechange/march/

When it’s festival power, lighting and sound you need – look no further than Peak! That’s just what happened when Father Philip North (from Our Lady of the Shrine in Walsingham Norfolk) was looking for assistance with his youth festival.

We provided full event site power and campsite lighting, with three generators providing power to the big top, catering and other venues and the rest of the site.

In addition, we provided the full lighting and sound solution to the stage show in the big top utilising a 7k front of house system, Soundcraft MH3 front of house desk and numerous Martin Mac moving lights controlled by a Pearl lighting desk.

Another partly wet weekend in July brought us to the beautiful Upcote Farm in Gloucestershire for the very first Two Thousand Trees Festival. The weather did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm and friendly atmosphere and we had a fabulous time providing sound and lighting to the main stage and acoustic marquee. Many thanks to the organisers who looked after us and worked so incredibly hard to make this event happen.
www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk

EAW have been on the road – and we’ve been to see them.

Having recently bought our new EAW Line Array we were invited to the EAW B4 Roadshow at Bray Studios, which is currently working its way across Europe. We learnt all about the new products that are coming out, and were lucky enough to meet some of the people who make EAW what it is. The photo shows Peak Sound and Light MD Karl Ashman, sound engineers Dan Keating and Dave Cleaves, with EAW’s Steve Badham, Moray McMillin, Kenton Forsythe, Jeffrey Cox, Bernie Broderick, Ferrit, Jamie Anderson and Sean Martin.

We were very pleased to once again provide sound and light technical support for this year’s Assemblies of God Conference in Blackpool. We deployed our new EAW line array speakers and flew 40ft of Litec QL52 truss, carrying Martin Mac600 and Mac700 moving heads, in the Empress Ballroom.

www.aog.org.uk
www.affinityevents.co.uk

Working with event management agency Affinity Events we’ve just come back from a weekend in London – where we have been providing sound support for the Making Our Mark event.

The event took place to commemorate 200 years since the abolition of slavery and combined a march through central London, stopping off at Lambeth Bridge (where we provided a small sound system) followed by a stage based event at Kennington Park. We made use of our brand new EAW line array system and were very pleased with the result.

The LED Screen/Stage combo provided by Bradford based BigTV was excellent, and the event was attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury.