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Something Glorious Happened!
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The spectacular light show made up for the lack of glow sticks, as seizure-inducing strobes and orange bulbs lit the band up perfectly in time with the music. 
Chris Schulz's Gig review -
in Stuff.co.nz
[Read the full interview
at Stuff]
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"Something glorious is about to happen," sang Bloc Party front man Kele Okereke near the beginning of the band's long-awaited Auckland show. He was dead right.
Aided by local support act Cut Off Your Hands the British dance-rock act thrilled a near sell-out crowd at Auckland's Telstraclear Stadium with a set that proved exactly why they're one of England's most hyped exports.
For this event Oceania Audio supplied our brilliant Meyer Milo system, and equally brilliant engineers to fly, tune and operate it! The team did a beautiful hang. The House Control Console was our stunning Midas XL4.
Oceania Audio's Equipment:
Front of House:
- Midas XL4 44 + 4 stereo channels c/w spare psu
- Sim 3 kit
Main Arrays:
- 14 x Meyer Milo 90° speakers
- 4 x Meyer Milo 120° speakers
- 12 x Meyer 700HP Subs
Monitors:
- Yamaha PM5D Digital Console
- Low Profile CLP 12" Wedges containing JBL 2206H/J 12" and JBL 2447H/J 2" Horn
- Oceania BiAmp Racks each containing 16 channels of 450 watts into 8 ohms
- Turbosound Flashlight and Meyer M3D-Sub sidefills ...
Oceania Audio's Tom Worley - System Engineer for the show had the Meyer Milo Array curvilinear tuned up a treat. Not a mid-frequency comb in sight! Other members of the Oceania "A" team on deck included Neil Heathcote over in Monitor World (Monitors for "Cut Off Your Hands") ... there may have been others ...
Bloc Party's lighting designer had a simple rig which he programmed on the day of the show. Using Oceania's Hog 3 this was easily achieved.
Oceania Lighting's Equipment:
- 12 x Mac 2000 Profiles
- 6 x HES Studio Beams
- 6 x HES Studio Colour 575
- 6 x HES Studio Colour 250
- 8 x Atomic 3k Strobes
- 7 x ETC source 4 Profiles
- 10 x Source 4 Parnells
- 12 x Duet Blinders
- 4 x 4lite Blinders
- 1 x Avo art 2000 Dimming Rack
- 1 x Hog IPC (Hog 3)
- Oceania Data Distro Systems
- Global 680 Truss
- Triplex Truss
- CM Chain Motors
Oceania Lighting's crew: Micah Hetrick [Crew Chief], Jurgen Potgieter [Systems], Aaron Grant [Rigging] were all on deck, there will have been others ...
Massive thanks to the Boys and Girls of Kiwi Krew
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