Merry Kingsmas & Happy 2024 New Year!

Wishing all of our loyal customers, friends and crew a wonderful Christmas time and peaceful New Year. The office closes 22//12/23 and we re open 02/01/2024. Ho Ho Ho! : )

New StageMobil XXL stage — just in time for Christmas!

Great news for King Sound just in time for Christmas! We’ve wrapping up 2022 with another big purchase to upgrade our hire equipment stock. Meet our brand new StageMobil XXL mobile stage!

We’ve recently placed an order and expect it to arrive in time spring. We are taking bookings now for Summer ‘23 and beyond!

Stagemobil exclusively specialises in mobile event systems and have been leaders in in the field since 1997. We’re always looking to expand our staging portfolio and, having hired in one of these excellent units for many events in 2022, we have taken the decision to invest in our own.

Why it’s particularly special?

Well, conventional stage systems are familiar to most people. Typically, they require a great deal of time and energy to build, not so with Stagemobil — the principal difference is that this stage can be towed to site then constructed within 30 minutes, with a maximum of 2 people involved in the process.

This extremely short set-up time helps to significantly save the costs whereas simple handling saves the additional use of on site plant and minimises background noise during assembly and dismantling.

With 10 m x 6 m of stage area and a clearance of 4.60 m, the XXL Mobile Staging creates an impressive space for imposing and sophisticated stage design. Due to the extensibility with side wings for rigging PA or branding, this mobile stage generates a genuine rock ‘n‘ roll feeling at any festival!

The weight of the mobile platform (3500 kg) eliminates the need for additional ballasting which is another nice bonus when it comes to impact on-site, cutting transport requirements and boosting sustainability. Despite its impressive size it can be operated quickly and easily – disassembly is as quick as set-up so, once any technical equipment is removed, a clear site can be only minutes away!

This stage is perfect for bands, festivals and events where a quick set-up is needed. With the sound wings on the XXL stage you can fly 500KG of audio per side.

QUICK FACTS:

• Dimensions (as the trailer):  L 11,70 m x W 2,54 m x H 3,95 m

• Dimensions (as the stage):  W 10 m x D 6,10 m x H 6,30 m x Clearance H 4,60 m

• Height of stage floor: 1,20 — 1,40 m

• Floor capacity: 350 kg/m2

• Roof capacity: 1.050 kg

Come check it out, we’re confident it will be one of our most popular stages. Of course we are also able to equip the stage with high end sound and lighting options and provide any crew needed to deliver your next event.

Happy Holidays and see you at hire.kingsr.com soon!

SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS: Bristol Sounds, Pride and Harbourfest - Part I

Summer ‘22 - so far, so good!

Here at King Sound, we’ve had a fantastic, busy, crazy summer but we made it through and enjoyed every part of the challenge.

We’ve still have August fully booked ahead of us but thought we’d share with you a few summer summer highlights so far.

If you’ve missed ‘‘Summer Highlights - Part II’’, click here to read about our busy summer.

BRISTOL SOUNDS — 22-27 June.

Bringing a diverse bill of live music to the heart of the city, the open-air summer concert series is one of the Bristol’s iconic shows and being our home town gig we were thrilled to be asked back for the seventh year running by promoters Crosstown Concerts.

Following a two-year hiatus, Bristol Sounds marked its return to the city’s much-loved harbourside with an expanded schedule of headliners over the 6 night run of shows: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The War on Drugs, Elbow, Jungle, First Aid Kit and Paolo Nutini all graced the stage at Amphitheatre to sell out audiences and great acclaim. We provided audio, stage management and crew for the shows with the audio package featuring our new L-Acoustics K2 system (which was greatly appreciated by all the visiting engineers) and Digico SD12 consoles. 6 days of early starts and late nights took its toll on our crew, but they remained rock solid though out.

SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS: Bristol Sounds, Pride and Harbourfest - Part II

Next stop was BRISTOL PRIDE — 9 July.

Not only one of the UK’s largest Pride events, but one of Bristol’s largest festivals, Pride is something we’ve been closely involved with since the beginning. Returning to the Bristol Downs after a Covid enforced break Bristol Pride was back - bigger, bolder and glitzier than ever before!

If you’ve missed ‘‘Summer Highlights - Part I’’, click here to read about our busy summer.

Perhaps our biggest full production gig of the year, we provided sound, lights, crew and staging over the whole site with kit spread across the five performance stages. The main stage, which was headlined by the fantastic Carly Ray Jepson, featured our 15M Orbit stage and a full-on festival sound and lighting system featuring our new L-Acoustics K2 system, Grand MA3 lighting console and Digico audio desks. All other stages enjoyed technical upgrades which kept the crowds dancing, laughing and having fun all day long. Site wide we proved over 150 boxes of PA, mostly L-Acoustics, over 300 square metres of staging and many dozens of lighting fixtures all from our extensive stocks of equipment. The build, break and 1 day show took up 8 full days and we employed around 40 people to help our full time staff produce the event.

And finally HARBOURFEST — 15 - 17 July (50th anniversary this year!)

The festival attracts over 250,000 visitors to enjoy over 120 hours of entertainment, across seven stages from spoken word to the latest Bristol musical talent, local dance performers, world class circus and on-water activity.

Each area of the one mile long festival was carefully developed by the Bristol Harbour Festival programmers Cirque Bijou, Thekla, Trinity Community Arts, Tony Benjamin, My Future My Choice, Rebecca Tantony, Grain Barge, Brunel's ss Great Britain and Jelli Records. A fleet of feature vessels was staying in the harbour as well as over 300 visiting boats, yachts and ships. 

Welcome to the Team!

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King Sound Reinforcement would like to welcome Phil Round as the newest member of the Team. Phil, having just returned from a 2 year stint working for a large AV company in New Zealand, contacted us shortly after moving to Bristol looking to get involved.

His CV looked good and we liked his ‘can do’ attitude. He initially worked for us a crew member on technical and non-technical assignments and the more we saw of him, the more impressed we were. Mindful that good people get snapped up quickly in this industry we invited him to apply for a full time job Live Event Production Manager with a focus on audio.

Phil’s calm attitude, friendly manner and solid technical ability are a great fit and he’s quickly settled in to the King team. Expect to see him operating shows, designing systems and advancing jobs with clients.

Managing Director Paul King says: ‘I am well known for being extremely picky about who we employ, especially in our sound department. The fact I hunted Phil down and offered him a job tells you all you need to know about my regard for Mr Round’s abilities!’

Phil, immediately took the sound department under his wing and got stuck in prepping shows and building racks.

Merry Christmas from King Sound!

The full King Sound family having a blast at Casa Mexicana last night. We all had a great time as we celebrated another year of achievements, challenges and amazing projects! We've had an excellent year thanks to our fantastic Team and particularly, our clients - we're beyond grateful you keep choosing us and promise to never let you down! 

Merry Christmas to you and yours and here's to very happy and prosperous 2020! x

IPAF training for King Sound

IPAF training for King Sound. Braving zero degree temperatures we all completed 3A and 3B tests for MEWP platforms - cherry pickers and scissor lifts. So we are licensed to operate for another 5 years!