The latest edition of ibis RockCorps returned recently with a major gig at Paris’s Accor Arena, featuring the triple bill of Macklemore, Franglish and Rosinia.
The concept of the event is unique in that anyone giving four hours of their time as a civic project volunteer in the French capital is eligible for tickets to this free concert.
Martin Audio partner, experienced production company 22live, tendered and won the contract, having worked for the show’s producers CC-Lab in the past.
However, 22live director Paul Timmins was aware that to service a gig economically within the Eurozone would require a marriage of careful logistics and high-octane sound—knowing that working in Europe post-Brexit poses a bureaucratic nightmare of Kafkaesque proportions.
He rationalized that by flying Martin Audio’s large format Wavefront Precision WPL line array in 20-box hangs either side of the stage, with a further 16 WPL as outfills on each flank, he could project some 90 meters to the rear of...
