AC/DC, Australia’s most successful rock and roll band, with sales of over 200 million records worldwide, returned home in February as part of their Black Ice World Tour. It was the band’s first Australian tour since 2001.
The main loudspeaker arrays, for the tour, were Electro-Voice X-Array while Jands Production Services provided Clair Audio I5 cabinets for the side hands and delays. For the stadium shows JBL Vertec cabinets were used ito supplement the system.
Dates
February 11, 2010 – March 8, 2010
Melbourne
Etihad Stadium – February 11, 13, 15
Sydney
ANZ Stadium – February 18, 20, 22
Brisbane
QSAC Stadium – February 25, 27
Adelaide
Adelaide Oval – March 2
Perth
Subiaco Oval – March 6, 8
JPS Crew
Nick Giameos
Delay Crew – Sydney
Karl Sullivan, Dave Richardson, Paul Schofield, Simon Farrell, John Kerns
After more than three months criss-crossing Australia, American pop superstar Pink wrapped her record-breaking tour with a final sell out concert at Sydney’s Acer Arena. It was the 58th and final performance of her phenomenal Funhouse national tour. In total, Pink performed before more than 660,000 concert-goers — 150,000 of those in Sydney alone.
JPS supplied equipment and additional crew for Pink’s Australian concerts — twelve in Sydney, seventeen in Melbourne, six in Adelaide, four in Newcastle, two in Wollongong and Canberra, eleven in Brisbane and four in Perth.
Dates
May 22, 2009 – August 29, 2009
JPS Crew
Nick Giameos Simon Farrell
Speaker System
Clair Bros Audio
44 x Clair Bros i5 Cabinets
28 x Clair Bros i5b Cabinets
16 x JPS JBL 18″ Sub Bass
8 x Clair Bros R4 MkIII Cabinets
4 x P2 Cabinets
8 x JBL Vertec 4888 Cabinets
FOH Drive System
12 x Lake Clair iO’s
1 x Motion 1200 Wireless Tablet
1 x BSS 366 Omni Drive
Control systems
F.O.H.
1 x Digi-design D-Show Venue
2 x Digi-Design D-Show Venue side cars
1 x Clair Lake iO controller
2 x Tascam CD-RW901SL Cd Recorders
1 x Sony CDP-11 CD Player
Wireless Microphones
1 x Shure UR4D-Q5 Duel Receiver
2 x UR2-Q5 Handheld Mics c/w KSM9 capsules
Monitor Speaker System
Clair Bros Audio
4 x Clair Bros i5 Cabinets
28 x Clair Bros 12AM wedges
4 x Clair Bros ML18
3 x 4 Mix Amp Racks
12 x Crown MA3600VZ Amplifiers
Wireless in ear monitors
3 x Shure P6HW In Ear Monitor Systems
14 x Sennheiser EW-300 G2 In Ear Monitor Systems c/w 28 Receivers
More than 2.5 million Australians tuned it to see Melbourne’s premiership triumph over Parramatta – making it the most watched NRL grand final in three years. Jands provided the audio system and staff for the day’s entertainment, including performances by Wolfmother, Wes Carr and Mark Vincent.
Date
Sunday October 4, 2009
Audio Crew
Michael Waters, Garry Hall, Tim Lonigan, Adam Williams
Bob Daniels, James Kohler, Tony Love, Andrea Le Roy
Rumours was released on the 4th of February 1977 and on 28 February, after rehearsing at SIR Studios in Los Angeles, Fleetwood Mac started a seven month-long promotional tour of America. In late 1977 they arrived in Australia and headlined the massive outdoor “Rockarena” shows in Sydney and Melbourne. They also played smaller indoor shows in Brisbane and Perth.
Jands supplied the lighting and audio to supplement the Clair Bros S4 system the band toured with.
32 x Clair S4 Speaker Cabinets, each containing:
2 x JBL 18″
4 x JBL 10″
2 x JBL 2″ Compression Driver
2 x JBL Slot Tweeter
Clair Bros Crew
James ‘Trip’ Khalaf
Chuck Hull
James Devenney
Steve Paterno
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
Eric Robinson – Production Manager
David Mulholland – Audio
Vagn Stenvei – Audio
Peter Rooney – Lighting
This was Elton John’s first tour of Australia and New Zealand. He played outdoors and Jands provided what was then the largest sound system every assembled in Australia. Elton’s personal monitoring system consisted of JBL studio monitors supplied by Clair Brothers.
Sound System
2 x RCA W Bin with 2 x 15″ JBL K140
4 x Jands U Bin with 2 x 15″ JBL K130
2 x RCA Multi-cell Horns with Altec drivers
8 x JBL 075 high frequency drivers
10 x Jands 150w Power Amplifiers
1 x 16 Channel Jands Mixing Console
Jands Crew
Howard Page
Phillip Storey
Eric Robinson
Promoters / Sponsors:
I.B.C./Rock Concert Club of Australia/Go-Set/ 6KY, 5KA, 3AK, 4BC, 2SM
1971 Tour Dates and Venues:
17 October – Perth, Subiaco Stadium
22 October – Adelaide, Memorial Drive Tennis Centre
24 October – Melbourne, Kooyong Tennis Centre
26. October – Brisbane, Festival Hall
31 October – Sydney, Randwick Racecourse
Support Groups:
The Birds (Perth)
Mark IV (Perth)
Headband (Adelaide)
Ilo (Adelaide)
Chain (Melbourne)
Aztecs (Melbourne)
Pilgrimage (Melbourne)
Gentle Art (Brisbane)
Leroy (Brisbane)
Country Radio (Sydney)
Melissa (Sydney)
Asleep At the Wheel (Sydney)
