Producing for live
Interview with music producer Jon Craig:
“Mixing for radio is a totally diff erent game to
mixing for live. You have to consider how the track
breathes on a live PA”
”Over the last 15 years there’s been huge shifts
in dance music. I went from playing 600 capacity
clubs, to big festivals”
“The youth are now very focused on EDM, which is
what they call dance music in the USA. Europe was
ahead of this curve with Ibiza and the like”
”I use a hybrid of vintage and modern equipment
to get the sound I want. ADAM Audio is a brand I
really trust”
”Artist wages have decreased signifi cantly.
Songwriters were earning Mariah Carey style wages
back in 1994”
“Three of four years ago, when we were making
the 1st orchestral dance shows, we had no idea how
big it would get“
Craig, works on Cream Classical and Gatecrasher
Classical handling production and engineering. He runs
his own high end Courthouse Studio.
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Cross industry festival safety site launches
Access is among the partners for a new
project, Festival Safe, designed by festival
organisers and industry professionals
who strongly feel there is a lack of vital
information readily available for fi rst-
time and regular festival goers, to prevent
incidents happening at festivals.
This initiative has come as a result of
extensive market research, which found
that festival goers would like a facility where
they can gather festival information ahead of
going to their chosen events.
Whether the matter is as trivial as
reminding festival goers to pack their
wellies, to explaining keys steps in
Gallowglass to help
transform arena
Event crewing company Gallowglass has been
tasked with turning Cardiff ’s Principality Stadium
into a family entertainment arena – and back
again – for a programme of Spring and Summer
events that culminates in July with the British FIM
Speedway Grand Prix.
In the coming months, Gallowglass crews will
be putting-in an anticipated 180 hours of logistical
support to turn the Stadium around in preparation
for a series of high-profi le live music and sports
events.
At the end of March, the Stadium hosted
blockbuster boxing showdown between unifi ed
world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua
and WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker.
During the coming months, music royalty will
draw sell-out crowds at the Stadium, with Jay Z and
Beyoncé in concert in May, followed by Ed Sheeran
and the Rolling Stones in June. In May the venue
will welcome Monster Jam - the adrenaline-fueled
motorsport event featuring 12ft tall trucks with 66-
inch tall tyres that perform wheelies, ‘donuts’ and
big air stunts in front of audiences.
managing a criminal incident, industry
professionals intend to fi ll the knowledge
gap to promote harm reduction.
Collaborating with a well known music
artist (to be revealed soon) www.festivalsafe.
com launched 26 April, off ering festival goers
the facility to fi nd information on every
aspect of a festival.
Focus areas will include what to expect
before you go, camping, crime, drugs and
alcohol, sexual health, mental health.
Festival Safe has been designed to relay
its messaging in a fun, relevant and cool
manner, thus tapping into its target
audience whilst ensuring the seriousness of
this initiative is achieved and retained.
Global is the founding funders of this
project, however, the website won’t be
affi liated with any one festival. It will be a
resource that any organisation can signpost
customers to. So far, Global, Festival
Republic and the Association of Independent
Festivals have all confi rmed involvement.
Ground Control CEO and founder of
Festival Save, Jon Drape, told Access: “The
aim is to develop this into a recognisable
brand where people fi nd out information on
all aspects of safety at festivals. We make
sure the content is meaningful, readable and
not judgemental.”
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