Dry hire

Equipment-only hire from Thornbury, near Bristol.

Tested, cased and ready to go: sound, lighting, staging, video, power and accessories for production companies, venues, bands and one-off events. Collect from our warehouse or have it delivered.

Racks holding 28 channels of Sennheiser wireless microphones ready for hire

How dry hire works

Dry hire means you hire the equipment on its own and run it yourself. It suits other production companies topping up stock, venues and theatres with their own technicians, and bands, DJs and occasional customers who just need a reliable PA or some lighting for a night.

  1. Tell us what you need and the dates. If you are not sure which system suits the job, we will recommend one.
  2. We prep and test it. Everything is checked in our warehouse before it goes out and again when it comes back.
  3. Collect or have it delivered. Collection from Thornbury by appointment, or delivery quoted for anywhere in the UK.
What we hire

Six sections, one warehouse.

Everything below is our own stock. Prices are per day excluding VAT where shown; weekly rates and package prices are available on enquiry.

Danley J7-95 loudspeaker stacked on a BC415 subwoofer in the warehouse

Sound

Loudspeakers from a single powered speaker to a Danley J7 system, subwoofers, amplifiers, digital mixers, wired and wireless microphones, in-ear monitoring and DI boxes.

Danley J7-95, SM80 and BC415 · Martin Audio W8LM, W8C, WS218X and LE12J · Electro-Voice ETX and ZLX · Allen & Heath SQ5, SQ6, CQ18T and Avantis · Sennheiser EW-D wireless racks · Shure, sE, AKG and Audix microphones

Lighting console in the foreground with a blue-lit aircraft behind

Lighting

LED washes, moving heads, fresnels, profiles, pars, battens, followspots, consoles, dimmers, DMX distribution, festoon, uplighters, outdoor floods and effects.

Chauvet Maverick MK2 and Ovation F-915FC · Spectra pars, battens and floods · Elumen8 Hex pars and Tour Batten sunstrips · ETC Source Four and Selecon · LDR followspots · ChamSys MQ70 and Zero 88 FLX · festoon from 7.5m to 100m

Stagemobil XXL trailer stage set up on a racecourse

Staging

Litedeck panels in four sizes with legs, pit rail and cable access, our Konligo Fastival stage roof, truss, chain hoists, stands and rigging hardware. Trailer stages through Big Stage Hire.

Litedeck 8x4, 4x4, 8x2 and 4x2 · Konligo Fastival roof · F34 truss · CM Lodestar and manual chain hoists · crank stands and speaker stands · Stagemobil L and XXL with Big Stage Hire

Large display screens set up in a marquee with picnic benches

Video

Our 3.9mm outdoor-rated LED video wall in any configuration, 55 to 85 inch commercial displays, a 6,100-lumen laser projector and fast-fold screens. Playback and switching available with technical support.

3.9mm LED video wall with Novastar processing · 55 to 85 inch displays · Sony VPL-FHZ66 laser projector · fast-fold rear projection screen

32A single-phase power distribution unit

Power

Generators, three-phase and single-phase distribution, 63A, 32A and 16A cabling, Socapex, PowerCon and 13A leads, tower lights and battery and inverter packs.

FG Wilson 20kVA, 60kVA road-tow and JCB 105kVA and 115kVA generators · 63A and 32A distros · mains cable in all standard lengths · Generac VB9 tower light · 1,000W inverter and 76Ah battery packs

Coiled 63A three-phase cable

Accessories

Speaker, microphone and control cabling, DMX, stage boxes, antenna distribution, networking and the small items that make a hire complete.

NL2, NL4 and NL8 speaker cable · XLR and multicores · 3-pin and 5-pin DMX · Sennheiser antenna distribution · rack-mount routers · cable ramps

Ready-made sound systems

FOH PA packages

Explore our current front of house systems for parties, live bands and events. Choose a package, tailor its contents and send us your dates for a quote.

7 FOH packages

Explore our FOH PA packages

Venues

Long-term lease for venues

For venues that need a permanent sound or lighting system without the capital cost, we offer long-term lease agreements tailored to the room. Unexpected repair, maintenance and replacement costs become our problem rather than yours, and you keep up-to-date equipment for the length of the contract.

After a visit we usually put forward three to five system options across a range of budgets. Whichever you choose comes with seven-day support: if something fails, we fix it, and from Thornbury we are rarely more than an hour from a venue in Bristol, Bath or the Cotswolds. Our hire stock also covers any temporary extras you need alongside the installed system.

Discuss a venue lease
Questions

Dry hire questions

Can anyone dry hire from you?
Yes. We hire to other production companies, venues, bands, DJs, schools, churches and occasional customers alike. If you are providing services for an event and need extra stock, get in touch.
Collection or delivery?
Collect from our Thornbury warehouse by appointment, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, or ask us to quote for delivery. We deliver anywhere in the UK.
How much notice do you need?
We stock most of the items in the equipment list. If it is not already booked, you can often collect it the same day.
What about insurance?
For dry hire we ask customers to take responsibility for insuring the equipment and its safe use while it is on hire. Loud Hire itself is fully insured for public liability, employers’ liability and professional indemnity.
Do you offer set-up or training?
Yes. For wireless microphone racks, mixers and lighting consoles we can include set-up and basic training for technicians who are new to our systems.
How are prices shown?
Prices in the equipment list are per day excluding VAT where listed; weekly rates are available and many items are priced on enquiry. Tell us the dates and the list and we will quote the lot.
Get in touch

Enquire about equipment hire

Send us the dates and a list, or just describe the event, and we will quote the whole hire. Collection from Thornbury or delivery anywhere in the UK.

Tell us what you are planning. If the date or the details are still undecided, that's fine: we can help you work them out.

We aim to reply within one working day.