The world’s most famous virtual band, Gorillaz, made their live debut in Australia in December 2010. After headlining the UK’s Coachella and Glastonbury festivals earlier in the year, Gorillaz headed to the Southern Hemisphere to tour Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and then Auckland. The band – the brainchild of Blur singer Damon Albarn and […]
Powderfinger hit the road late in 2010 for their farewell tour of Australia and New Zealand. The band had decided after 20 years of making music and touring the world to call it a day and set out on the Sunsets Farewell tour. It consisted of arenas for the capitals cities and big-top tents for […]
Global comedy ‘rock-star’, Russell Peters, brought his hillarious Green Card Tour to Australia in May. As part of his “Green Card Tour,” the shows featured all new material since the release of his latest DVD, “Red, White and Brown”. He was recently ranked by Forbes — along with Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock — as […]
The 2010 Groovin the Moo festival took a big leap in production from the previous years. The festival promoters had asked how they could step up the production levels without too large an infrastructure change. The festival featured Silverchair, Vampire Weekend, Empire of the Sun, Tegan and Sara, Grinspoon and many more and with such […]
Lady Gaga hit Australia for the Monster Ball tour. It was the first Lady Gaga solo tour and a monster show that featured an elaborate stage set. The shows ran for over 2 hours with numerous costume changes and sets that morphed constantly between songs, moving from New York cityscapes to Tim Burton-esque dream worlds […]
Photos courtesy of Stephen Booth Photography The Pixies returned to Australia for a sell out national tour. JAS provided a D&B J series system along with a M4 monitor system. In a sign of things to come the shows were recorded live and CDs were available at the end of the show. DATES March […]
2010’s Future Music Festival featured The Prodigy, Empire Of The Sun, Franz Ferdinand, David Guetta and co along with new musical acts including: Spank Rock, Way Out West, Operator Please, Bag Raiders, Space Invadas and Jump Jump Dance Dance! Dates Feb 27-28, March 6-8 Melbourne Festival Main stage 24 x L-Acoustics V-Dosc 24 x L-Acoustics […]
This year’s soundwave festival was a sell-out success and rocked Australia. With bands like Faith no More, Placebo, AFI, Paramore, Jimmy Eat World, Janes Addiction and many more it made for a huge few weeks. The festival kicked off in Brisbane and ran over 2 long weekends. With the 2 overnight festival events, JAS supplied […]
Rob Thomas hit Australia for the first time on a solo tour and a D&B system was requested. Jim Yakaistori contacted us and mentioned he was keen to us the J system and ran us through what he was looking for. It ended up being quite a substantial setup. JAS supplied 2 x 96ch Digidesign […]
Marilyn Manson Tour Oct 2009 Dates October 5, 7, 10, 14, 17 2009 Marilyn Manson rocked through Australia for another full-on tour. The system was made up of a 32 box V-Dosc system along with 24 x SB218 subs and a Digidesign D-show out front. The monitor system included D&B M2 wedges, L-Acoustics ARC side-fills […]
