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Van Damme Cables Help Kent University’s Keynestock Festival Sound Amazing
Students at the University of Kent held their annual Keynestock Festival earlier this month and attracted more than 1,400 people to the three day live music event, which raised over £2,000 for the Prince’s Trust.
The vast majority of the cabling used during the Festival was high quality Van Damme, supplied UK cable specialist VDC Trading and sold to Kent Union Technical Services (the Student Union’s internally-run events crew) by Idium Technology Ltd.
Over the last two years, Kent Union has amassed a selection of Van Damme multicore, mic, DMX and power cables, as well as an array of Cat 5 and video cabling. These purchases have been part of a major investment by the Student Union, which was determined to bring the running of events such as Keynestock in house, thus improving the range and quality of events on offer.
Jon Fagg, a final year student at the University who set up Idium Technology four years ago in conjunction with Robin Shuff, who is completing studies at the University of Southampton, says: “In the past the Students Union has used external companies to handle the technical side of its events, but it became apparent that we had all the necessary skills amongst the student population, so we set up the Kent Society to harness them. The Keynestock Festival is by far the biggest event we have organised and this year it was an overwhelming success.”
The Festival comprised three days of live music, starting with a Friday night warm-up party in the college bar. On Saturday, the main stage hosted 16 student bands and acts that had undergone nine weeks of auditions to win a place among the finalists in a Battle of the Bands competition. This year’s overall winner was Elena Goulding, who performed an acoustic set that was well received by the sell-out audience.
Throughout the weekend there were also various sideshows around the college and the Festival culminated with a Sunday chill-out featuring acoustic acts playing in the bar.
“In the past we have used cables supplied by outside contractors and many have been unreliable and of very poor quality in terms of the audio they delivered,” Jon Fagg adds. “This was the first year that we were able to use our own cable stock, consisting of high quality Van Damme. This made a huge difference to the quality and professionalism we were able to deliver, and everyone was delighted with the result.”
The event was also broadcast live by CSR FM, the first student-run radio station in the UK to be granted a Community Radio License. The station had an outside broadcast studio set-up overlooking the main stage which was also entirely wired using Van Damme.
4th June 2007
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