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Sennheiser At Glastonbury 2004
Sennheiser UK has been a long-term supporter of Glastonbury and 2004 has seen the company busier than ever. In the year that first saw performances by the English National Opera and Paul McCartney, Sennheiser continued to support up and coming talent with its sponsorship of the New Tent, in conjunction with the production company, Reality Check, and the hire company providing sound for the tent, South West Audio. Additional exposure was given to the New Tent this year with live broadcasts from the stage on BBC 6 Music radio and, every evening, on BBC 3 TV.
New Tent Stage is operated uniquely within the Glastonbury festival in that one company, Reality Check, provides the complete turnkey production package, handling all of the planning and management of the stage for the entire event, including sound design and specification. Julian Spear and Jonathan Badger, co-directors of Reality Check commented: “This is a very busy time for us over the summer festival season, as we specialise in classical concerts as well as rock ‘n’ roll, but Glastonbury came together very well. The key, as always, is good planning in advance, helped, in no small way, by excellent partners like Sennheiser, South West Audio and, on the lighting side, White Light.”
Sennheiser provided the microphones and in-ear monitoring, which were used by 90% of the 40 acts that performed on the New Tent Stage over the three-day festival. The microphones used included e935 and e840 vocal, e664 and e614 condensers, e609 guitar cabs and e604 clip-on drum mics. Also, used for the first time at Glastonbury, Sennheiser supplied the new G2 wireless hand-held evolution e935 radio mic and 300 series IEM G2 in-ear monitoring systems.
Other acts using Sennheiser and Neumann equipment throughout the festival included: Scissor Sisters, Jamie Cullum, Ben Harper, Goldie Lookin Chain, Franz Fedinand and Damien Rice, along with Sennheiser endorsees: Lostprophets, Starsailor and Joss Stone.
Commenting on Sennheiser UK’s support of the New Tent Stage, director of sales and marketing, John Steven, explains: “The festival is still such a unique opening for new talent to perform in front of a great audience and in the atmosphere that is pure ‘Glastonbury’. Sponsorship of the New Tent is our opportunity to help these bands and artists and seeing the winners of last year’s Sennheiser Unsigned Artists competition, Nowhere Near The Garden, on the New Tent Stage at Glastonbury was a real pleasure.”
In picture: Nowhere Near The Garden performing inside The New Tent at Glastonbury 2004.
9th July 2004
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