2010 News

Pyramid have embarked on a new adventure! With years of experience and a massive contact list, we have now decided to move into event promotion. Our first event, Zion Train at the Junction in Cambridge sold out! We’ve more events planned throughout East Anglia in 2010, starting with Nucleus Roots at the Junction in Cambridge on Thursday 25th March 2010. Watch this space…

2009 News

2009 saw the continuing success of our Digidesign Profile System, which has been on sub-hire to Britannia Row Productions and Capital Sound on a regular basis. 
Elsewhere, Pyramid Audio has been out in the field, with our newly acquired flying system for our Martin Audio Wavefront speakers. We at Pyramid believe this is a better approach for medium scale events than Line Array systems, as it keeps the sound focused on the audience and is not as subject to prevailing winds blowing the sound away as with a Line Array.
Pyramid are now sole suppliers of PA equipment to the Kiss FM Weekenders.  

2008 News

2008 saw our new DigiDesign Profile system go out with ELO, KT Tunstall and the Wombats, as well as providing monitor duties on the Main Stage at Glastonbury for Amy Winehouse and others.

At the slightly smaller end of the digital scale, our Yamaha LS9/32 has been on almost permanent tour, as monitor desk for The Subways. This has proved very useful for monitor engineer Phil Shenton as he has the whole band on wireless in-ears and the need to have the same mix every night is easily possible when touring with such a small and versatile desk like the LS9.

September 2007: Putting Spirit Into The Thames Festival

Pyramid Audio love working at The Lord Mayor’s Thames Festival!
It is always a spectacular event, but this year exceeded our expectations even more than ever. The sheer variety of entertainment throughout the day would be enough to satisfy anyone, while the evening shows – Transe Express’s human chandelier (100 feet above Jubilee Gardens), the 2000 colourful carnival characters and the massive fireworks display, were truly jaw-dropping.
We have supplied the sound for the festival for the last 7 years and this year, for the first time, we used a single brand of speaker – Dragon Spirit. Pro Sound News featured both companies in their October edition. Over half a million people enjoyed the weekend’s festivities, including our five stages, which were spread out along the Thames from The London Eye to Tower Bridge.

The Hubble Bubble and Silk Row stages both featured fusions of world music, while two other stages included Al Fresco ballrooms – in fact, The Tate Modern stage hosted the biggest open-air Tango event ever held in the UK! Our most unusual setting, however, was probably the Bandstand on Southwark Bridge, which had been closed to the public and turned into various themed areas including a beach, a banquet and an outdoor-indoor lounge.

We’re already getting excited about what next year’s event might throw at us!

November 2007: Shaolin Monks get the Dragon Spirit.

Our Dragon Spirit Line Array System has just returned from a tour with the incredible Shaolin Monks. It made perfect sense for them to chose this rig, besides the clarity of sound across all ranges of application - live music, vocals, playback and action, the rig was designed, built and assembled in the Monks’ home country of China.

Twenty Monks (and young trainees) travelled all the way from the Shaolin Temple in China, to demonstrate their martial arts expertise to the UK. The action included a crescendo of kung-fu sequences as the Shaolin Monks were lifted aloft on sharpened spears, splintered wooden blocks with their bare hands, broke bricks on their heads and flew through the air in an incredible series of backflips and spins.

Of course, the rig also gave a fantastic performance - adding to the excitement by amplifying the astonishing feats of strength and skill of the Kung Fu Masters.