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PREMIERE ISSUE / OCTOBER 2013 RAVE COMES OF AGE EDM BECOMES BIG BUSINESS WITH HUGE FESTIVALS OF ITS VERY OWN OVERCOMING FESTIVAL CHALLENGES FACING THE WIRELESS SPECTRUM CATACLYSM 8 GO BEHIND THE SCENES AT NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL BOSTON CALLING COACHELLA ELECTRIC ZOO HANGOUT FESTIVAL GATHERING OF THE VIBES COntents vol. 1 no. 1 October 2013 www.prosoundnetwork.com editorial FRANK WELLS, executive editor 212-378-0400 x535, [email protected] KELLEIGH WELCH, editor 212-378-0423, [email protected] 8 WELCOME VIGNETTES CLIVE YOUNG, managing editor/web editor to the first edition of Music Festival 212-378-0424, [email protected] STEVE HARVEY, DANIEL KELLER, LINDA ROMANELLO, SARAH STANFIELD Business, a new publication that Newport Folk Festival 10 contributors examines the growing music festi- 12 Boston Calling advertising val industry, the accouterments of Coachella 14 KAREN GODGART, publishing director modern stage production and the 16 Electric Zoo 323-868-5416, [email protected] TARA PRESTON, associate publisher various disciplines and technolo- 20 Hangout Festival 917-331-8904, [email protected] DOUG AuSEJO, specialty sales associate gies that feed the phenomenon. 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NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND WEBINAR FOLK FEST LISTENS IN TAKE 1, ESA WITH SENNHEISER HOLD SAFETY Folk band Langhorne Slim and the Law perform at the Paste SEMINAR Ruins/ Sennheiser Sound Lounge at the Newport Folk Festival in July. Take 1 Insurance and the Event Safety Alliance (ESA) have announced that they are teaming up to host a new Webinar that focuses on producing safer live events. Geared towards the production of staging at live events, the new Webinar will provide participants Scott Carroll, Senior VP & Program with knowledge on how to make Director of Take1 Insurance live events safer for everyone involved. The Webinar will take place on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 2 p.m. EST and is open to anyone involved in the production and staging of live events. “Due to a series of tragic accidents, life safety has become a major concern to many within the live event industry,” explained Jim Digby, founder of the Event Safety Alliance. “Whether you work directly on productions or provide support to them, everyone has For a second year, Sennheiser collaborated with Paste Magazine to expand the audience of Paste’s a role to play in ensuring the well-being intimate recording sessions at Newport Folk Festival by mixing the performances live into hundreds of our performers, workers, and audience of wireless on-ear headphones. members. In this webinar, leaders from ESA Jim Digby, President of ESA In the past, Paste Magazine hosted these recording sessions inside the stone ruins of Fort Adams, and Take 1 will detail the importance and but because of the small size of the area, audience members couldn’t hear anything. Using the responsibilities of event safety for those who promote, produce, and popular ‘silent disco’ idea, where people congregate into clubs and are given headphones to choose insure live events.” his or her own music and interact with others without having to listen to the other person’s music “The time for discussion is over and the time to take action is at selection, Sennheiser provided headphones for the audience so they could listen to the recording hand,” said Scott Carroll, executive vice president & program director sessions. of Take 1 Insurance. “For years, we have emphasized the need for live “A few years ago, we noticed Paste was doing these multi track sessions and people were clambering event producers to take the time to prepare for the unimaginable, and to watch them,” said Tim Moore, U.S. artist relations for Sennheiser. “It came to mind that we could now, thanks to the leadership position taken by Jim Digby, and the take the technology and bring in an engineer to mix the live recording sessions to the headphones and Event Safety Alliance, the industry can utilize the ESA’s Event Safety create a unique listening experience.” Guide to prepare complete emergency action plans that include having Upon entering the Sennheiser Sound Lounge at the Paste Ruins, guests were given a set of the right insurance coverage in place.” headphones to listen in on the recording session. Artists used a collection of Sennheiser and A week after the Event Safety webinar, the Event Safety Alliance Neumann microphones for the sessions as well, including the Neumann TLM 49, U87, KM 184, and will take its message of “be prepared” to LDI 2013 (November 22–24, the Sennheiser MK4 and e 906. 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada), where it will host a presentation entitled The headphones transmited over FM, allowing as many people to listen as possible, with artists “The Event Safety Guide: The Future of Safe, Responsible Show coming and going throughout the day. Performances were announced through Paste and Sennheiser’s Production” on November 23, 2013 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Las Twitter accounts, as well as written on a chalkboard. Performers for 2013 included Langhorne Slim & Vegas Convention Center. At 3:30 p.m. the same day, the ESA will host The Law, Amanda Palmer, and The Last Bison. a 90-minute roundtable discussion entitled “You Are The ESA” at the The same wireless headphone set up was offered at the festival’s more intimate Museum Stage, Las Vegas Convention Center. allowing more people to hear the performances inside without having to push into the crowded room. TAKE 1 INSURANCE // www.take1insurance.com SENNHEISER // www.sennheiser.com EVENT SAFETY ALLIANCE // www.eventsafetyalliance.org FINLAND KV2 AUDIO TAKES ON FINNISH FESTIVALS KV2 Audio VHD stayed busy this summer, covering a number of festivals across Finland, at these important events using only one or two VHD 2.0s on the main stages,” said including the Pori Jazz Festival, Siikainen Rock event, and Flow Festival. Timo Kunnas, sales manager of Noretron Communication Oy. “The VHD is easy to use Several rental companies in close cooperation with Noretron Communication (KV2 and set up, making our life really easy and giving us time to focus on providing superb distributor in Finland) covered all the events, using VHD systems or a combination of sound quality instead of losing hours of time in set up and adjusting systems, as usually VHD, ES and EX speakers to cover all aspects of the shows. happens with line arrays.” “We have been working for more than 10 years with KV2 systems, from the smaller ES to the VHD, and it is unbelievable the sound quality, level and coverage we can achieve KV2 AUDIO // www.kv2audio.com 6 Music Festival Business October 2013 prosoundnetwork.com BRIEFS VISIT PROSOUNDNETWORK.COM FOR THE LATEST INDUSTRY NEWS AND INFORMATION. NEW YORK, NEW YORK ANTWERP, BELGIUM KILLERS ON THE LOOSE RENKUS-HEINZ GETS Alt rock act The Killers spent the Philip Reynolds, system FESTIVE IN BELGIUM engineer for The Killers, summer roaring through Europe explaining his Focusrite RedNet touring set up. on its world tour, playing a slew of high-profile festivals like T In The Belgian audio provider Face Park, Isle of Wight and others. For its Audio was on-hand for this non-festival arena shows, however, year’s Jazz Middleheim, held system engineer Philip Reynolds has in Park den Brandt, August been using a Focusrite RedNet 1 eight 15-18. Founded in 1969, the channel AD/DA and RedNet 4 eight- long-running festival attracted channel Mic preamp along the way.