Gear
The house desk is the most important instrument in the room, and nobody tunes it
Four rooms, four consoles, and one habit that separates the nights that sounded finished from the nights that did not.
Gear
Festivals
Pokhara lakeside season opens with three new stages and one shared sound crew
Three stages, one production budget, and a schedule that survived its first weekend without a single overrun.
Venues
The Foundry rebuilt its stage around the load-in, not the audience
Eleven metres of stage movement cut the changeover in half, and the audience never noticed a thing.
Festivals
What a festival production manager actually does in the fortnight before gates open
Two weeks, one spreadsheet, and four hundred decisions an audience only notices when they go wrong.
Festivals
Five things that make a festival stage schedule survive contact with the day
Changeover time is not padding, it is the only thing protecting every act that plays after it.