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Projects

The brief, what we delivered and what the client said. Every project is a real event with the equipment list to match.

The Hawkstone Farmers Choir performing on Loud Hire's stage at The Farmer's Dog, with the audience in front
Project

Groove Armada, the Hawkstone Farmers Choir & Jeremy Clarkson

Sound, lighting, video and staging for Hawkstone's Wildthing launch at The Farmer's Dog, featuring Groove Armada's Andy Cato, the Hawkstone Farmers Choir and host Jeremy Clarkson.

SoundLightingVideoStagingPower
Konligo Fastival stage roof at dusk with a crowd dancing and Cotswold hills behind
Project

Konligo Fastival stage roof: a small stage without the compromise

Our Konligo Fastival roof builds in 20 minutes, takes 200kg of lighting and looks the part. Its first outing was a full production package on a summer evening in the Cotswolds.

StagingSoundLighting
British Airways Flight-Ops Summer Fly-In event branding, Wycombe Air Park, 31 July 2025
Project

British Airways Flight-Ops Summer Fly-In

Sound for British Airways' Flight-Ops Summer Fly-In at Wycombe Air Park in July 2025.

Sound
Beams of light and fireworks over a dark field, with a lighting desk in the foreground
Project

Timecoded lighting for Downend Fireworks

A fully programmed lighting show, synchronised to the music and fireworks by timecode, for Bristol's biggest annual firework display.

Lighting
Gloucester Tall Ships Festival logo
Project

Full production for Gloucester Tall Ships Festival

Three days of folk, shanty bands and DJs on a 10m x 6m outdoor stage at Gloucester Docks, with the PA flown and angled to keep sound off homes just 60m away.

SoundStaging
Presenter on a 10m x 6m stage at The Farmer's Dog with a Drink Hawkstone banner across the front
Project

Event production for Hawkstone at The Farmer's Dog

An overnight build, a Danley PA, a 7m x 3m LED wall and radio mics for a whole choir: a private launch for Hawkstone's new TV adverts, delivered without disrupting a working pub.

SoundLightingVideoStaging
4m x 2m LED video wall on a stage deck inside a stretch tent, showing the NFU Mutual team meeting title slide
Project

Daylight video wall for an NFU Mutual team meeting

A 4m x 2m outdoor LED wall, PA, wireless mic and generator for a presentation day in a stretch tent, where projectors would have been washed out by daylight.

VideoSoundPower
Loud Hire crew in a hot air balloon basket with an Eats Everything banner
Project

Eats Everything: a DJ set from a hot air balloon

Batteries, inverters, amplifiers, CDJs and Danley speakers packed into a balloon basket so a DJ set could be heard on the streets of Bath from 500ft up.

SoundPower
View from the stage of a crowd of thousands at Bath Racecourse as The Wurzels perform
Project

The Wurzels at Bath Racecourse cider night

Sound for one of Bath Racecourse's busiest nights of the year, with more than 5,000 people in front of the stage and a Danley J7 system running with 40% headroom.

Sound
Crowd in front of a lit festival stage at Bath Racecourse at dusk
Project

Shield Group corporate festival at Bath Racecourse

Full sound, lighting and power distribution for a company summer festival, with the entire setup redeployed overnight from the previous evening's show 100m down the racecourse.

SoundLightingPower
DJ performing behind a fairy-light backdrop at a private party
Project

Gorgon City private party

DJ equipment and a front-of-house PA for a private party headlined by Gorgon City.

Sound
Historic biplane in the Aerospace Bristol hangar washed in deep blue light
Project

Aerospace Bristol's 5th anniversary

Lighting for an evening of VIP drinks and dining to mark five years of Aerospace Bristol and reveal the new Bristol Fighter exhibition, run entirely from the museum's floor sockets.

Lighting
Outdoor festival stage lit in blue and purple with guests in front at night
Project

From bare field to festival: a joint birthday party in Herefordshire

Site planning, a 7m x 6m stage with Big Stage Hire, sound and lighting for three bands and a DJ in a farmer's field cleared of cattle for the night.

SoundLightingStaging
Large tree uplit in white at night with tipis in the background
Project

Festival-style tipi wedding

A Litedeck stage inside the tipi, pixel-mapped washes and sunstrips for the band, 200m of festoon on dimmers and tree uplighting across the site, plus the power to run it all.

StagingLightingPower
Outdoor stage decorated with bunting and Union Jack flags, with an orchestra performing
Project

Proms in the Park at Speech House

Full production support for an outdoor proms with more than 20 musicians on stage at once and guests camped up to 100m from the stage.

SoundLightingStaging
The Mount Without in Bristol lit in red with a stage platform in front of the stained glass window
Project

Shakespeare at The Mount Without, Bristol

Litedeck platforms and high-output colour-mixing LED lighting for a sold-out Shakespeare production by Misplaced Theatre, run by the company themselves on our MQ70 desk.

LightingStaging
Crowd gathered around a lit Christmas tree in front of the stage on Ilford high street at night
Project

Christmas concert in Ilford

A long-throw PA, stage and lighting for a Christmas concert on Ilford high street, set up before dawn, run into the evening and packed down within the hour.

SoundLightingStaging
Stagemobil trailer stage dressed with Union Jack flags on Ilford high street
Project

The Queen's Jubilee in Ilford

A full production package of staging, PA, lighting and power for a Jubilee celebration on a London high street that never sleeps, set up in two hours.

SoundLightingStagingPower
Illuminated Santa's float on a trailer at night
Project

Santa's float: sound for a Bristol charity tradition

Forward-firing speakers on the tractor and delay-aligned subs under the trailer, so a volunteer-run Santa's float could be heard up the street while raising money for Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.

Sound
Boxing night in a large hall with beams of light cutting through haze above the audience
Project Boxing event promoter, Bristol · Bristol

Sound, lighting and effects for a 2,000-capacity boxing night

A truss-mounted PA over the ring, a full lighting rig with moving lights and haze, and CO2 jets on every corner, designed for 2,000 spectators watching from 360 degrees.

SoundLighting
Small stage and speakers set up on College Green in front of Bristol City Hall
Project Rally organisers · College Green, Bristol

Battery-powered PA for a carbon action rally on College Green

A diesel generator was out of the question at a rally about carbon emissions, so we built a battery supply and ran an efficient horn PA for a crowd of 1,000 in central Bristol.

SoundPower
Runners' legs and trainers on a road during a mass-participation race
Project Bristol 10k · Canon's Marsh and Millennium Square, Bristol

Bristol 10k: a 2km sound system for 13,000 runners

Seamless music and speech coverage along a 2km start area, a radio microphone working 1km from the receiver, and a two-hour set-up window for the 2017 Bristol 10k.

Sound
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