Dates – 1977

Nov 11 RAS Showgrounds, Sydney
Nov 13 Calder Park Raceway, Melbourne

Artists

Fleetwood Mac
Santana
Little River Band
Kevin Borich Express
Caravan

Sound System – Clair Brothers

32 x Clair S4 Speaker Cabinets
The S4 contains all JBL components: 2 x 18″, 4 x 10″, 2 x 2″ Compression Driver, 2 x Slot Tweeter. Cabinets have Cannon EP8 connectors.

Additional System – Jands Concert Productions

12 x Hurler (sub-Low) c/w 4 x JBL 2205
4 x RCA W Bin c/w 2 x JBL K140
16 x JBL 4560 c/w 1 x JBL 2220
16 x JBL 4580 c/w 2 x JBL K120
24 x JBL 2350 Horn + 2480 Driver
16 x JBL 2355 Horn + 2440 Driver
10 x JBL 2356 Horn + 2480 Driver
48 x JBL 075 Tweeters

Jands Crew

David Mulholland
Eric Robinson
Peter Rooney
Vann Stenvei

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The Welcome To My Nightmare Tour began in Spring of 1975 and continued until 1977 when Alice took the show to Australia and New Zealand.

The elaborate travelling stage set included a large gothic looking bed in the center of the stage. There were huge pillars on either side of the bed, which would at one point in the show support an over-sized spider web for the performance of Devil’s Food and The Black Widow. And, at the height of the show the bed would slide back and a large split screen was raised.

Alice and the dancers were on the screen and then would emerge through the screen onto the stage. Sheryl Goddard, who would later become Sheryl Cooper, played the ballerina role for Only Women Bleed.

The touring band included Dick Wagner, Steven Hunter, Prakash John and Whitey Glan.

I Never Cry was added to the set during the Australian and New Zealand leg of the tour.

Tour Dates

March 1977
14, 15 Entertainment Centre, Perth
18 Westlakes Football Stadium, Adelaide
21, 22, 23, 24 Festival Hall, Melbourne
26 RAS Showground, Sydney (40,000 people attended, breaking the Australian record at this time)
29, 30, 31 Festival Hall, Brisbane

Video

When Abba toured, in 1977, Jands supplied the sound, lighting and a custom built hydraulic stage that was used to raise and lower a 17 piece Australian orchestra who provided backing for several songs including “Dancing Queen”

In a radio interview, after the Melbourne concert, reporter Don McLean said
“…a big speaker bank either side of the stage and then they had another one half way up the lawn area. I think possibly because of the use of strings and synthesizers and just the band themselves playing and the whole lot was blended so well, it was just unbelievable, the sound was perfect. And of course you could hear every word that ABBA sang which was what the kids were there for anyway.

Also the lighting, the stage was all white. They had big blue curtains hanging down on either side with ah sort of flowers all round the stage. And ah, I wouldn’t be sure exactly how many lights they had, they had a lot of lights on stage, on the sides of the stage and ah it was just one big colour bath the whole way through. It was brilliant.”

Tour Dates 1977

March 3 & 4 Sydney Showgrounds
March 5 & 6 Melbourne Myer Music Bowl
March 8 Adelaide Westlakes Stadium
March 10, 11 & 12 Perth Entertainment Centre.

Sound System

System Crew
Howard Page, Peter Rooney, Paul Mulholland

ABBA & Management:
Promoter Paul Dainty
Australian Tour Manager Michael Chugg
Asst. Tour Manager Graham Maddigan
Production Manager Eric Robinson
Publicity Patti Mostyn

Rod Stewart toured Australia, for the first time, in early 1977. His Sydney concert set a new attendance record of 32,000 at the RAS Showground.

Sound System
FOH Console
Jands 24 / 16 / 2 mixer

Effects
27 band stereo graphic eq
2 x DBX 160 limiters
2 x Jands. 4-way crossovers

Amplifiers
8 x Amp racks with 3 Crown DC300A or Phase Linear 700B or Jands J600S

Speaker System:
12 x Jands 4130 (4 x JBL 15)
4 x RCA W Bin (2 x JBL 15)
24 x JBL 4560 (1 x JBL 15)
16 x Jands 4580 (2 x JBL 12)
20 x JBL 90° horn
16 x J8L 60° horn
8 x JBL long throw horn
48 x JBL 075 high frequency

Monitor System
Monitor Console
Jands 20 in 6 out monitor mixer

Side Fill
1 x JBL 4550 (2 x JBL2220)
2 x JBL 4560 (1 x JBL2220)
2 x JBL 90° horn
1 x JBL 2390 lens
Drum Monitor
4 x JBL 4560 bass bins
2 x JBL 90° horns

Floor
4 x Jands wedge (1 x JBL 15, horn and driver

Lighting System
Jands 48 ch 2 preset console,
16 Scene masters
6 ch chaser

Dimmers
70 Jands 2kW (miniset) dimmers

Fixtures
100 x Par64
Strand Pat 763 Profiles
Mirror Ball

Tour Dates 1977
February 7, 8 – Perth
February 11, 12 – Adelaide
February 14, 15 – Melbourne
February 18, 19 – Sydney
February 21, 22 – Brisbane
February 28 – Christchurch NZ
March 3 – Auckland NZ

Jands Crew
Vagn Stenvei, Dennis Braham, David Mulholland, Michael Oberg, Phil Eastig

Rod Stewart Crew
Pete Buckland, Patrick Woodroffe, Robin LeMesurier,

The April 1977 edition of Electronics Today featured an article about the equipment used on this tour.
Read the Electronics Today Story [PDF 1.9m]