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Capital Sound chooses Martin Audio for ‘Cool Britannia’

This year’s ‘Cool Britannia’ at Knebworth Park built on the success of last year’s inaugural event, and now looks to have become a consolidated festival. Capital Sound were again brought in to work alongside production manager Keith Morris, and as was the case last year they equipped both the Main and Ministry of Sound stages.

Capital Sound’s Robin Conway notes that “the biggest upgrade this year was that we were able to fly the MLA side hang stage right, thanks to the redesigned structures, whereas it was ground stacked last year.”

The main stage PA comprised 15 MLA and a single MLD Downfill per side, with 14 x MLX in broadside cardioid array providing LF extension. A further 10 W8LM Mini Line Array elements were placed in pairs on top of the subs as lip fills.

For the MOS dance stage, which ran later into the night, strict sound limits needed to be observed. “But we were able to run at 98dB(A) average and 101dB(A) peak,” says Conway. To achieve this they ground stacked five MLA Compact elements per side side, with 15 Martin Audio SX218 placed in five stacks of three across the front, with four Martin Audio XD12 on stands. Artists requiring monitoring were serviced by six Martin Audio LE1500 among the battery of stage wedges.

Capital’s team on duty included crew boss and monitor engineer Jonny Buck, Ben Turnbull (system tech), Dan Leaver (FOH engineer), Antony Best (monitor engineer) and Isabella Di Biase and Bheki Phakathi (Patch) - all on Main Stage - while Alex Legge and Alastair Hellard supervised the sound on the MOS Stage.

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