Phatfish at Gravesend
A fantastic phatfish concert in a theatre/Church in Gravesend. Dave mixed the in-ear monitors for the band, followed by running to Front of House to mix the audio for the gig. The Church thoughoughly enjoyed the event with compliments all round.

Gospel Arts at the Royal Albert Hall
A Salvation Army event featuring the International Staff Band and the International Staff Songsters.

Working for B and H Sounds, Dave ran the stage and patch ensuring the many recording and PA mics were correctly routed to the relevant rooms via the correct stage boxes, multicores and splits.

New Dawn Events run three day "No More Rain" festival in Shrewsbury

May 2009 saw New Dawn Events run two days of the UK's best tribute bands and a Sunday evening with the National Symphony Orchestra and special guests all performing indoors away from the outside...sun (or rain if it had been outside).

Friday acts were Killer Queen, Pink Floyd - In The Flesh, and Ledd Zepp.
Saturdays acts were: Talon, U2UK, Viva Santana, Rumours of Fleetwood Mac and Logical Tramp.
Sundays guests were: Jonathon Ansell, Teatro and the Rhos Male voice choir.

Sound and lighting was provided by Lee Dreezer of Cheltenham Stage Services who installed two large stacks of Meyer, a monitor rig to please all bands, and enough light to cope with providing variety for each different act on stage.

Dave Warner engineered the on stage monitor mixes, Martin Stansfield engineered the front of house mixes, and Mike looked after the stage and patch.

Lou Fellingham "Unplugged" with Phatfish
Phatfish played an unplugged event with Lou singing tracks from both her solo albums and the new Phatfish album. The acoustic versions of the tracks allowed the band to explore the musical styles and give the audience a more personal concert, one not to forget.

Dave engineered the band and thoughoughly enjoyed the chance to create an almost "Hi-Fi" sound in the intimate environment.

Nike "Show your Five"
Moonlite provided the sound, lighting and video projection for Nike's five a side football tournament held within Alexandra Palace.

A three day rig created an indoor five a side astroturf stadium within Alexandra Palace. The entire pitch was evenly floodlit to television levels, along with Robe moving heads projecting Nike gobos and providing lighting effects to keep the energy levels in the crowd high during change-overs.

The sound consisted of a Logic Ethos line array carefully angled to cover the whole of the raised seating area around the pitch. In addition, delays were used to ensure intelligibility of the speech in the reverberant hall. Radio mics were used for the Referee and the hosts on the pitch and DJs played high energy music making the most of the energy in the Ethos Subs. Dave engineered the event on a Midas Heritage.

Bible by the Beach
Working for Southby, Dave rigged and operated the sound for this years Bible by the Beach conference held at the Congress Theatre in Eastbourne. Worship was led by Stuart Townend accompanied by Phatfish, and seminars and sermons were led by various well known speakers.

The sound was reinforced by Southby's Q10s and E9s providing an even spread of sound across the whole auditorium. The band used in ear monitoring engineered by Mark Heaps.

Schmitz Cargobull

Dave has been lighting a reveal for a 40ft curtain sided freepost trailer on behalf of Radarsound. Lighting included a variety of moving heads and parcans in corporate colours on the trailer's exterior, fresnels and profiles to light a stage area, a bank of LED lighting for the inside of the trailer highlighting the neat interior as part of the reveal, and a pair of blinders hidden under the trailer. The client was very pleased with the results.

Spring Harvest Big Top
Dave has just finished engineering the Big Top for Spring Harvest at Skegness. He engineered bands including Mark Tedder, Mark Beswick and Graham Kendrick and received many compliments from the guests.

The rig included flown Meyer clusters and a range of Meyer fills for to cover the vast area of seating, with a PM5D at front of house. Technical Production site wide was provided by B and H Sound.

Recent Corporate work...
Dave has spent the last few months working on a variety of corporate events, including work for production companies Moonlite, Southby, CVS, ATSound and B and H Sound.

Above picture is taken on an event for Moonlite, showing their iLive console.

SAW at Thorpe Park
Dave has worked for Ashdown AV on the installation of an extensive audio and visual system on the new ride "Saw" at Thorpe Park. This includes a Bose audio system, outdoor plasma screens on the ride and TFT screens located throughout the queue line.

The audio visual system is linked into the ride to play clips as the ride reaches certain points on the track.

Location Recording
Dave has been recording classical events for ATSound within London, using stereo techniques and experience gained from both his university degree and from previous album recordings.

The Rash

Out Now... The Rash Album One, Seven tracks written and performed by The Rash. On sale at concerts and via warnersound.

Recorded by Dave Warner, this four piece band perform for local events and partys. They write their own music, and also perform covers in their very own acoustic style. Instruments include mandolin, acoustic and electric guitar, bass and piano.

Graham Kendrick 2008, Dreaming of a Holy Night

A tour of the UK and the Netherlands, performing songs from Graham Kendricks "Dreaming of a Holy Night" album.

Graham was supported by a stunning band, made up with Steve Thompson as music director and main keys, Andrew Small playing drums, Roy Johnson on bass, Dan Wheeler on electric guitar, Mark Walker on second keys, and Philippa Hanna on backing vocals.

The Front of House system included MSL 4s and 650s, with optional UPA front fill and an M7CL to mix the show. This set up gave plenty of versitility for the wide range of theatres the tour visited.

Dave mixed seven stereo in ear mixes, two choir and a video feed and then maxed out the desk with reverbs, utilising every mix bus available on the M7CL, as well as filling all the input channels.

Each venue provided its own choir, varying in size from 35 to 130 members, with venues ranging from Theatres to Concert Halls, to Cathedrals.

Photos of the event can be found at http://www.bakkerworld.nl/

The Stand, Birmingham NEC Arena

System tech and stage man for The Stand, an eight hour event held in the NEC Arena raising awareness of the slave industry across the world.

Two hangs of Meyer MICA were flown either side with 650s providing the bottom end, fed by and M7CL and a Midas Legend. Monitors were a combination of In Ear mixes and Meyer UPAs and UM-1Ps across the stage.

Eleven major acts performed on the stage, including Delirious?, Tim Hughes, Y-Friday, Four Kornerz, Bluetree, Vicky Beeching and Jon Foreman of Switchfoot. Changeovers had to be very fast between acts, with soundchecks having taken place in the morning. PA was provided by B and H Sound, with Chris Jones on front of house, Colin on monitors, and James Southby as cheif patch monkey.

Photo by Mark Murfitt

JCB Heavy Plant Launch
Sound and rig for the launch of the JS360 and the new heavy plant facility in Uttoxter for Moonlite Productions. A reveal of the factory and the new machine in front of JCB's VIPs, alongside presentations of JCBs current work.

Dave engineered Front of House using a Logic Systems Ethos line array flown off crane tracks either side. This enabled an even spread of sound across the theatre seating.

 End of the Road Festival, Salisbury

Monitor engineer for the garden stage. 24 awesome bands over the three day weekend. The festival has a chilled out vibe and is a pleasure to work on. Bands included Noah and the Whale, Calexico, Tindersticks, Richard Hawley, Mercury Rev, British Sea Power, Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band to name a few.

A Soundcraft SM20 on monitors allowed Dave the ability to very quickly set the monitor levels in the short space provided for each changeover. Wedges used were Meyer UM1Ps and UPAs with MSL 4 Side fills.

Midsummer Magic feat. McFly, Sugababes, Bjorn Again and Katherine Jenkins.
System technician for the Event at both Lincoln and Grantham. Monitor engineer for Bootleg Beatles, GoAudio and Katherine Jenkins. Rig used a Meyer Mica line array, with PM5D at monitors.

Newday

Front of House engineer for the gigs venue, working with a range of bands and DJ Andy Hunter. Tree63 flew in from America and played an awesome set which I enjoyed mixing, and received great feedback about.

Oundle Jazz Festival
Featuring the Jive Aces and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. I worked the monitors for the festival and received compliments from the Jive Aces for my work.

Glitz Blitz and 70s Hitz
Featuring the Rubettes, The Sweet and Showaddywaddy. Sound provided by Atlantic Audio, Monitors engineered by myself, and Front of House by Jarvis alongside each band's respective engineer. 31 shows over May and the first half of June.

Last Update: 28th May 2009