Capital Sound covers Kylie for Yasalam
Published: MEA
UAE: With Kylie Minogue’s production manager Kevin Hopgood busy on another tour, Capital Productions was asked to handle the production and audio needs for Kylie’s Yasalam concert on the Friday night after the Abu Dhabi Formula 1.
Capital project manager Robin Conway handled the audio, whilst Paul Timmins took over the production role for this large scale one off show, which featured eight dancers specially flown in from Australia.
Regular sound engineers Kevin Pruce and Dan Kent, at FOH and monitors respectively, specified the control, which Capital supplied for both the rehearsals in London and the show in Abu Dhabi.
Consoles included an Avid Venue Profile system at FOH and a DiGiCo SD8 at monitors. RF included a raft of Sennheiser radio microphones and IEM systems with Kylie, backing vocals and the full band on IEMs.
The L-Acoustics K1 loudspeaker system supplied in the du Arena was from Delta Sound Dubai, and was system engineered by Al Woods, who has been a regular for both Delta and Capital for many years.
‘It was a great success,’ said Mr Timmins. ‘The Friday night saw a crowd approaching 30,000 petrol heads that really fancied spinning around!’