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Doing their first headline tour since 2003 Neil Young with Crazy Horse returned to Australia for a series of arena and A Day On The Green winery shows in March 2013.

JPJ Audio provided a d&b system for the tour with shows in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hunter Valley and Surf Coast Geelong.

Tour Dates

Mar 2 – 16, 2013

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Promoting their fifth studio album, Mylo Xyloto, this was Coldplay’s first Australian tour since 2009’s Viva La Vida tour, aside for their quick visit for the 2011 Splendour in the Grass (Qld) festival.

JPJ Audio provided the d&b speaker system along with L-Acoustics V-Dosc and Kudo for delays.

Dates

November 13 – Etihad Stadium, Melbourne
November 17, 18 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney
November 21 – Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane

Main Speaker System

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• 40 x d&b J-8 Enclosure
• 20 d&b J-SUB Sub-low Enclosure – flown
• 12 d&b J-SUB Sub-low Enclosure
• 10 d&b J-INFRA Sub-low Enclosure
• 72 x d&b D12 amplifier

Front Fill Speaker System

• 6 d&b Q7 Enclosure
• 4 d&b Q1 Line Array Module
• 6 x d&b D12 amplifier

Side Speaker System

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• 24 d&b J-8 Enclosure
• 8 d&b J-12 Enclosure
• 16 d&b V8 Enclosure
• 8 d&b V12 Enclosure
• 2 d&b V8/V12 amp rack
• 18 x d&b D12 amplifier

Delay System

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• 36 L-Acoustics V-Dosc elements (3 hangs of 12)
• 54 L-Acoustics Kudo elements (4 hangs of 6) (Etihad Stadium)
• 24 L-Acoustics Kudo elements (4 hangs of 6) (Allianz Stadium)

JPJ Audio Crew

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• FOH System Engineer
  Josh de Jong
• System Techs.
  Connor Dunne, Guto Monteiro, Craig Gordon, Dakota Crouch
• Monitor System Engineer – Opening act.
  Shaun Ayles
• Delay System Techs.
  Duncan Kaye, William Ramage

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 Tank Girl cartoonist Jamie Hewlitt – consists of an eccentric animated quartet: singer and keyboardist 2-D, bassist Murdoc, guitarist Noodle and drummer Russel Hobbs.

As part of their first world tour the band included over 20 musicians on stage at any one time. JAS provided a D&B J system – and lots of it.

Date

December 11, 16, 19, 21

System

60 x d&b J series
16 x d&b J-sub
18 x d&b B2
Powered by d&b D12 amplifiers

FOH

DiGiCo SD7

Monitors

DiGiCo SD7
24 x L-Acoustics 115xt HiQ wedges

JAS audio crew

Craig Gordon
Conor Dunne
Guto Magic – Otavio Santos
Matthew ‘Boz’ Boaro

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 one of the top ten highest grossing stand-up comics in the U.S.

JAS supplied a D&B J series arena system for the shows at the Acer arena in Sydney and the Rod Laver arena in Melbourne.

Date

May 8, 9, 11, 14, 17, 20

System

56 x D&B J
12 x D&B J-sub
6 x D&B B2 sub
Digidesign SC48 FOH console

JAS crew

Audio system tech: Doug Pringle
Audio system tech: Otavio ‘Guto!!’ Santos

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

Eighth Day Sound Systems, Inc supplied the console and monitor package along with 6 crew. JAS supplied the stacks and racks along with an additional 2 audio crew.

Dates

March 17 – April 9

System

60 x D&B J8/12
8 x D&B J-sub
18 x D&B B2
24 x L-Acoustics dV-Dosc
64 x 1 ton motors.

JAS Crew

Audio system tech: Josh De Jong
Audio system tech: Peter O’Leary

    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 14 – 27

SYSTEM

32 x D&B J8/12 line array boxes
12 x D&B J-sub
6 x Q7
2 x Yamaha PM5DRH
3 x DV-Dosc sidefill systems
12 x D&B M4 wedges

JAS Crew

FOH system tech: Craig Gordon
Monitor system Tech: Mathew “Boz” Boaro
Audio system tech: Nathan McGuinness

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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 SB218

Stage 2

24 x D&B J
18 x D&B B2 sub
1 x Digidesign Profile FOH console
1 x Yamaha PM5D
12 x D&B M4 wedge
2 x Nexo Alpha E side-fill systems

Stage 3

16 x D&B J
12 x D&B J- sub
1 x Digidesign Profile FOH console
1 x Yamaha PM5D
12 x Wayloud wedge
2 x Nexo Alpha E side-fill systems

Sydney festival

Main stage

24 x L-Acoustics V-Dosc
24 x L-Acoustics SB218

Adelaide festival

Main stage

24 x L-Acoustics V-Dosc
24 x L-Acoustics SB218

Prodigy package

Consoles

2 x Midas XL3
3 x quad D&B C4 side-fill systems Loud!!!
16 x D&B M2 wedges

Franz Ferdinand package

1 x Digidesign Profile FOH console
1 x Yamaha PM5D monitor console
2 x D&B M2 wedges

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
Saturday, 6-7 March – Perth

SYSTEM

60 x D&B J8/12 line array boxes.
12 x D&B J-subs.
6 x D&B B2
8 x D&B Q7

JAS Crew

FOH system tech: Doug Pringle
Audio system tech: Eric Sanderson-Evans

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 console systems with 2 x HD3 pro-tools recording/playback systems.

A surprise at the Melbourne show was INXS who turned up and played the last 3 songs with Rob Thomas with a hint of what might be coming later in the year.

The tour ran through a combination of arenas and wineries throughout Australia.

DATES

February 12-13

SYSTEM

48 x D&B J8 & J12 line array boxes.
16 x D&B J-Subs. There was a combination of flown and ground sub J-subs.
16 x D&B M2 wedges
Digidesign 96ch FOH console
Digidesign Pro-tools HD3 system FOH
Digidesign 96ch FOH monitor console
Digidesign Pro-tools HD3 system Monitors

JAS crew

FOH system tech: Doug Pringle
Monitor system Tech: Conor Dunne
Audio system tech: Nicholas Brunney

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 and a PM5DRH console.

JAS crew

FOH system tech: Craig Gordon
Monitor system Tech: Mathew “Boz” Boaro
Audio system tech: Shaun Ayles

Liza Minnelli Tour Sept 2009

Dates

October 16-17, 21, 23, 25, 30 2009
November 2 2009

Liza Minnelli returned to Australia after a 20 year hiatuses. A nice quiet affair for all to be had! A pleasant change from Slayer and Manson that week!!
The system supplied was a V-Dosc system with a Digidesign Profile out front.
The monitor system comprised of a PM5D console and the Wayloud wedges for Liza.
We supplied 16 x Nexo PS8 wedges for the orchestra as personnel monitors

JAS Crew

FOH system tech: Josh DeJong
Monitor Operator: Alan Mourant

David Gray Tour Sept 2009

Dates

13 & 15 Oct 2009

David Gray flew through Australia for a quick promo tour.
D&B J line was requested and supplied for the Hammer Hall show.
We supplied a console and monitor package for the other shows.
Analogue was recalled for FOH with a Midas H3000 and lots of that stuff we love. The monitors ran from the PM5D with the M2 wedges everywhere else.

JAS Crew

FOH system tech: Tristan Johnson
Monitor system Tech: Conor Dunne