For the third year running, Gearhouse South Africa supplied full technical production, site infrastructure and a series of unique solutions to stage the 2010 Mighty Man Conference, at Greytown outside Durban. Gearhouse was again working for The Shalom Trust, and in close collaboration with its technical co-ordinator, Nik Fairclough of Northwind Recording who also mixed the FOH … [Read more...]
It’s No Joke for Gearhouse SA
Gearhouse South Africa supplied technical production including lighting, video and sound for “It’s No Joke” the landmark 46664/Real Concerts comedy festival event at Sun City Super Bowl. This unique, side-splitting one-off event utilised the universal language of laughter to raise funds for the Nelson Mandela charities by uniting 10 of SA’s cutting edge comedians - Trevor Noah, Marc … [Read more...]
Killer production by Gearhouse South Africa
Gearhouse South Africa supplied full production - lighting, audio, video and rigging to US alt rockers, The Killers' recent - and first - tour of the country. The Killers wowed South Africa with three incendiary, sold-out performances, two at the Coca Cola Dome in Johannesburg and one at Val De Vie Estate in Cape Town. The band has been on this current world tour since the middle of 2008, … [Read more...]
Gearhouse switches on the festive lights in Cape Town
Gearhouse South Africa's Cape Town branch supplied all technical elements - staging, lighting, audio, LED and technical crew to Out The Box Productions for the annual "Switching on of The Festive Lights” in Adderley Street, Cape Town. This year, the event featured a distinctive soccer theme, highlighting the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup and the imminence of the Final Draw, that took place … [Read more...]
Largest line array PA in South Africa
Northwind Recording appointed Gearhouse South Africa to team up, design and supply the largest ever line array PA system to date to be used in the country, for the 3 day 2009 Mighty Men Conference (MMC 09), staged at the Shalom Farm, Greytown, KwaZulu-Natal. Comprising 172 L-Acoustics speaker enclosures - a mix of VDOSC, dV-DOSC, Kudo and SB28 subs - in-the-round show featured a main stage … [Read more...]