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 […]
Held at the St Kilda and South Melbourne Albert Park race course, Johnston Audio was again asked to supply audio for the Melbourne Grand Prix after race concert. This year’s event ran over 2 nights with Simple Minds and Australia’s Powderfinger performing. A huge crowd of 30,000 people stayed for the shows. Date March 25-28 […]
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 […]
Whitney Houston hit Australia for her first tour here in over 20 years. JAS was asked to supply the D&B J system while the monitor and FOH package came from 8th Day sound. DATES Wednesday, 24 February – Sydney Saturday, 27 February – Hunter Valley Monday, 1 March – Melbourne Thursday, 4 March – Adelaide […]
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 […]
AC/DC, Australia’s most successful rock and roll band, with sales of over 200 million records worldwide, returned home in February as part of their Black Ice World Tour. It was the band’s first Australian tour since 2001. The main loudspeaker arrays, for the tour, were Electro-Voice X-Array while Jands Production Services provided Clair Audio I5 […]
International superstar Ronan Keating toured Australia in January 2010 for his first concert tour in six years. The Irish star performed indoor stadium concerts in Melbourne and Sydney, and seven ‘A Day On The Green’ winery events around the country. JAS supplied a 48 cabinet L-Acoustics V-Dosc / dVDosc system for the arena shows and […]
