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JPJ Audio on the road with Cher
The Here We Go Again Tour is the seventh solo concert tour by Cher in support of her twenty-sixth studio album Dancing Queen. The Australasian tour was a brand new production. Cher shares the same management as Pink who recently finished. JPJ Audio supplied an audio package and crew for the tour including an L-Acoustics…
Read MoreGavan Swift designs MAMMA MIA! The Musical
MAMMA MIA! The Musical has been playing to packed houses around Australia for most of this year. It is currently playing in Melbourne until 30 September before travelling to Adelaide for six weeks only. The show is a brand new production with new direction, choreography, scenery, costumes, lighting and sound. The lighting design is by…
Read MoreJPJ Audio and Thousands of Southern Stars
Thousands of performers and spectators converged on the WIN Entertainment Centre last month, as the annual Southern Stars school arena show hit town. More than 3000 student from primary and high schools in the southern schools region performed with the show also including soloists, a 500 piece choir, and orchestra and an indigenous dance company. Students…
Read MoreJPJ Audio and The Wombats
The Wombats are currently celebrating the ten year anniversary of their first album, touring Australia with Groovin’ the Moo and performing a few side shows. For the past five years FOH engineer Pete Bartlett has worked with the band as well as his other main act The Pretenders. The band members and crew were delighted…
Read MoreJPJ Audio service Hans Zimmer’s Australian Tour
Legendary German film score composer and record producer Hans Zimmer brought his Revealed Tour to Australia with JPJ Audio tasked with supplying gear and crew for this complex production. Since the 1980s, Hans Zimmer has composed music for over 150 films including The Lion King, for which he won Academy Award for Best Original Score…
Read MoreRoadskills: Robbie Williams
It’s been barely twelve months since that cheeky little popstar Robbie Williams last toured the country with his Swing Both Ways show. This year he’s returned with his Let Me Entertain You tour, featuring a crowd pleasing parade of hits which combined with his charismatic, funny and mischievous stage presence, not to mention a consistently good voice, left the crowd consistently…
Read MoreRoadskills: The QUEEN Extravaganza
The Queen Extravaganza, billed as the official Queen tribute show, is the mastermind of Roger Taylor and Brian May, two of Queen’s original band mates and songwriters. Taylor personally took on the role of producer with long time Queen keyboardist Spike Edney as global music director. The show, a celebration of the music of Queen,…
Read MoreWOW
Each spring, the World of Wearable Art Awards Show (WOW) takes centre stage at Wellington’s TSB Bank Arena. The show has been described as one part fashion show, one part Cirque Du Soleil and one part Eurovision. Over 100 garments from 130 international designers are transformed and showcased on stage in a distinctive two hour…
Read MoreRoadskills: Maroon 5
After touring North America, Europe and South-East Asia with their V tour, Maroon 5 finally arrived in Australia for a whirlwind three gig tour. The multi-platinum selling and Grammy Award winning rock band is mixed by Jim Ebdon whose CV includes Aerosmith, Annie Lennox, Sting and Matchbox Twenty. Jim has been mixing Maroon 5 for…
Read MoreRoadskills: Gurrumul Yunupingu
Indigenous Australian musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, known simply as Gurrumul, sings in both English and his native Yolngu language. Born blind, Gurrumul plays the drums, keyboards, guitar (a right-hand-strung guitar played left- handed) and didgeridoo, but it is the clarity of his singing voice that stuns audiences worldwide. In July this year, he released his…
Read MoreRoadskills: Imagine Dragons
Imagine Dragons are on tour with their electrifying Smoke + Mirrors show that is as bright and flashy as their hometown of Las Vegas. The show at Sydney’s Qantas Credit Union Arena ignited the venue with a performance featuring showy visuals and drumming thunder. Lighting design is by Sooner Routhier with creative direction by Jesse Lee…
Read MoreRoadskills: Of Monsters and Men
Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men visited the country for Splendour in the Grass, stopping off in Melbourne and Sydney for a couple of side shows. The band is busy touring the festival circuit with a show designed by Cory FitzGerald and Tobias G. Rylander of Seven Design Works. As is often the case, the…
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