Brand new addition to King Sound Reinforcement — KING HIRE website!

Hi everyone! 

Big, big news at King Sound headquarters: we are really excited and proud to finally introduce you to KING HIRE and our brand-new equipment hire site: hire.kingsr.com! 

Intended as a quick reference guide to the over 12,000 individual items of equipment in our hire stock, the new hire site hire.kingsr.com enables customers to quickly check what we can provide to other hire companies and individuals seeking event and production equipment of all kinds.

Currently King HIRE includes 12 essential sections:

Audio | Lighting | Rigging | AV | Backline | Cables | Staging | Packages | Staging structures | Ex-Hire | Effects | Power.

Each one includes extensive up-to-date catalogue conveniently divided by category. Each category section contains dozens of product pages with pictures, detailed descriptions and technical specifications for your assistance. Each page also includes pricing for the item per day and per week (incl. VAT).

Dynamic, modern and easy to use, the platform showcases our extensive stock and also helps rent any product you might be interested in.

We’ve spent hours and hours, researching the market and working closely with our design and branding team to bring the concept to life and importantly, make it better than anything we’ve previously seen. 

Please come, browse and if you are not exactly sure what you need, that’s no problem — contact our friendly team (via the simple form on the site) and they will be more than happy to advise best option for your project or event. Alternatively, the platform might suggest similar items based on your search results (just click on ‘‘looking for something else?’’ option).

We have a huge selections of various products and we are constantly adding new things to our range, just choose the category and start looking. If you are not able to find what you require, please email us at hire@kingsr.com and we’ll do our best to locate the item for you.

We’re still testing the platform so please let us know should you deal with any technical issue, our web support will be straight there to fix that. We’ve put lots of energy and time to make it work, yet we know we can improve it even further and we only can do it with your help.

Look forward to hearing from you and we do hope you love it as much as we do (just bear with us a bit as we are dealing with growing number of inquiries!)

Oh, and celebrate a big launch, we are giving a 10% discount till end of December to our first 15 clients using it so feel free to share or take advantage of this offer yourself.

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

Bringing #BRISTOLTOGETHER at Christmas 2021 with 24 beautiful lighting projections!

Hi everyone! Holiday season is upon us and we wanted to share one of the jobs we’re part of and really enjoying — lighting up some iconic Bristol buildings this Christmas!

Expect glowing building frontages, Christmas movie quotes and famous song lyrics across the city centre -- from Arnolfini and St George’s to Cabot Circus (incl. King St, Corn St, Broadmead and Bristol Shopping Quarter) to Waitrose on Queen’s road. 

The project is part of the bigger Bristol City Centre BID’s #BRISTOLTOGETHER initiative (we were part of their #LoveBristol campaign earlier this year designing and installing glittering disco balls in Bristol’s streets). This Christmas their festive arts campaign ‘Bristol Adventures’ promotes the recovery of the city, bringing together many wonderful local business to help create a festive trail. 

Now in its second year, Included for this year is Redcliffe and Temple BID, which means even more iconic locations and sites added to the project.

The projections started on November 17th near Park Street and Queens Road with Cabot Circus and Redcliffe sites joined on November 24. Further cheery messages appear on buildings every night up to December 1st when Harbourside and Old City lights go live, full festive lighting stays in place till December 24th, giving Bristolians a chance to take in every one of the 24 sites.

Our busy team of ‘Lighting Elves’ has worked tirelessly to bring this year’s light trail to the life and here are some snaps featuring the beautiful, huge projections! 

Hope you enjoy and if you can, please do come into the City Centre to explore over a mile of festive lightings and perhaps enjoy the areas that you might not usually visit.

DiGiCo & Klang Roadshow comes to town

A great day hosting the DiGiCo and Klang Roadshow last week.

We were very excited to welcome so many people during our morning and afternoon sessions. The training took place in our own warehouse where we could incorporate our own SD12s consoles as well as with new, impressive DiGiCo Quantum 225 & 338 consoles, along with the new Klang immersive IEM kit.

The atmosphere was amazing, after a long and draining Covid gap it was definitely refreshing to see so many passionate engineers eager to learn new things and get their hands on a DiGiCo again. Friendships were re-kindled and tea was drank — it was excellent.

Special thanks goes to our very knowledgeable and friendly DiGiCo specialist, Tim Shaxson. He demonstrated all the advantages of the Quantum software in the new consoles, only previously available on their flagship models. The sleek, futuristic designs and amazingly bright 17” screens needed no explanation...!

Everyone who tried it was impressed with the Klang system and it was generally agreed that once an artist had a demo there would be no going back to stereo.

All in all, a great day!

New Addition to Our Fleet — Renault Premium, 18T!

With growing demand for our production services, we are proud to introduce another new vehicle to our ever expanding fleet! 

Please meet our latest addition — an 18 Tonne Renault Premium 270 truck, it is our biggest and most powerful yet with an impressive 27.5ft box and a payload of 10000 kg. Yes, he is a Big Boy! 

MD Paul King comments:

‘‘Transport logistics is a massive part of what we do, especially in the frantically busy summer months. This new truck will drastically cut our reliance on haulage contractors as a thoughtfully loaded 18 tonner can contain an awful lot of tech kit. As this fits inside our warehouse we can prep and load kit straight on the lorry ready to go out — this alone will save a lot of time compared to lining everything up, waiting for the contractor to turn up only to find they’ve sent a curtainsider!’’

The Renault is modern and well equipped with lots of additional features such as cruise control, air conditioner, night heater etc. It is also is a sleeper which is ideal for our crew travelling on long trips. 

For this one, we’ve changed our traditional livery design a bit, walking from our central, big logo style to more discreet and contemporary look. Graphic elements thus (while essentially the same) were redefined a bit.

Christina Meyer-King, Brand manager for King Sound said:

‘’We wanted our fleet reflect our raising profile as the company. Having achieved a good level of brand awareness in our industry, our livery aesthetics aims to deliver a confident image of well established business with no-nonsense brand identity. Less clutter, less fussiness, more focus on product and customer is definitely the leading trend in brand design and logo families now and we totally follow it’’.

If you see our team, driving it in its distinctive brown livery on the road, give us a wave! : ) 

King Sound celebrates 25 years of service with the crew new uniform!

Much awaited upgrade for the King Crew uniform!

If you’ve followed us for a while, you’ll know that our team has been wearing branded, brown ‘King Crew’ t-shirts for more than ten years now and 'King Brown’ (as it is affectionately known here) was formally adopted as our company colour back in 2008! With that in mind, (and after a LOT of feedback from the team) we thought it was time to evolve our employee dress code a bit!

We are pleased to share that all our crew members now have a set of winter uniform they can wear in colder times of the year. It symbolically marks an amazing 25 years anniversary for the Company. Yes, King Sound Reinforcement has been in business for more than two decades!

The new uniform includes a brown branded sweatshirt paired with the stylish beanie hat in brown too with a smaller (crown) version of our logo. 

Christina Meyer-King, the head of Branding and Marketing, was responsible for the project.

She said: ‘’Our brand and heritage is something we are immensely proud of and keen to preserve. Our goal was to keep our branding concept alive yet give our staff something they can feel comfortable, warm and smart in. We've tried different styles and colour combinations but based on our team's feedback, sweatshirts proved to be most practical and professional looking attire. Admittedly, it took us a while to find the right supplier to ensure the right materials and embroidery techniques are used. However, the result was well worth the wait! Our crew loves its new workwear and some even admit wearing it outside working hours (which honestly is the best compliment any company can get!) The hats in particular were so coveted by some of our clients and partners we’ve started handing them out as swag!’’

Kickstart for Sales Department

We are pleased to announce that Richard Watts has joined the company as head of sales and installations. A experienced, respected and popular figure in the industry, Rich worked for SSE Audio as sales manager for 10 years and was instrumental in the growth of their pro sales operation. 

Managing Director, Paul King comments: ‘We are excited to welcome Rich to the team and feel lucky to have such a great guy on board, we have long sensed a real gap in the south west and have been focused on finding the right person to head up our equipment sales operation. In Rich we have one of the most well-known people around who’s links with both manufacturers and clients are unsurpassed. Exciting times ahead!’

 Rich Watts adds: ‘It’s great to be part of something at ground level again and have an opportunity to put my own mark on the industry. Moving to Bristol has been a high priority for me for and I am really happy that Paul has allowed me to join the team at King, I couldn’t ask for a better start in a new city.’

Getting ready for busy summer!

Busy summer is ahead of us, the King team is working hard to get everything ready and lined up for the upcoming shows!