Hamish Bamford

Tasmania International Arts Festival '15

Position – Head of Sound. 

"Hamish is one of the most relaxed soundies we have worked with. He operates flawlessly, including on opening night under tough conditions without seeing the show beforehand - no easy task. We’ll put him in a suit next time."
- Brett Haylock. Creative Producer,
La Soirée, Oliver Award Winner 2015.

As well as working with La Soirée, I also worked alongside many other prestige acts such as Archie Roach, James Morrison, ASTA, Le Gateau Chocolat, Yana Alana, El Son Entero, Paul D Miller (aka DJ Spooky) Breabach,  plus many more. Visit http://www.tendays.org.au/ for more info. 

Future Music Festival '15, adelaide, austrilia 

Working with Parachute International, we managed logistics along with building a site for a 30,000 capacity arena. This included two stages, a foam pit, and a warehouse hosting the headline act, The Prodigy. Although not directly involved with sound, the job gave me a great insight into the number of people who run the live festival scene worldwide, benefiting my interpersonal skills for future events. 

Fringe World '15 (Australia)

Fringe World is the fourth biggest Fringe festival in the world, based in Perth, Western Australia. 

Sound engineer in De Parel Spiegeltent. Team of four - LX, SM, ASM and SND. 

We had 22 different acts ranging from comedians, burlesque and circus to jazz, funk and variety shows. There were 24 tech rehearsals and the operation of 108 shows within a 31-day period.

Nine of our shows were nominated for the Fringe World '15 Awards. 

MAX RITCHER '14 (AUSTRALIA)

Chris Ekers, who I have worked under previously, requested my involvement with the 
Max Ritcher concert, Vivaldi Recomposed, in the Recital Centre, Melbourne. 

Beautiful sounding room and a total of 76 channels were used.

Electric Picnic '14 (Ireland)

Worked on The Jerry Fish Electric Side Show, a busy venue in the centre of the precinct that often has crowds extended 15-deep outside the tent. 

It's part of a three-day festival with, in total, 20 bands, 18 cabaret acts and and 23 DJs. 

Responsibility was to the tent - keeping acts running to schedule, making sure our crew were fed and watered, liaising with security, keeping track of backline, solving power issues, ruling decisions that involved people's safety and generally making sure people were having a good time.

EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL JAZZ & FRINGE FESTIVAL (UK)

A team of six, consisting of two LX, two stage and two sound, worked together for seven weeks, 15 hours a day, with no days off. It was paramount to support each other, whether it was to take on each other’s roles when routine did not go to plan or to get each other a cup of tea.

Jazz and Blues Festival - over 10 days, we mixed more than 30 bands, mixing FOH and six ways of monitors. Bands ranged from singer-songwriters to 24-piece orchestras, with everything in-between. Craig Gaskin gave me an invaluable lesson in methodology; shaving my sound check time for a eight-piece band down to 12 minutes, which included stage set-up time.

Fringe Festival - Designed and operated 12 different shows, ranging from comedians such as Al Murray, solo acts from Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), to full-blown scale musicals, in the round, in front of our PA system.

Palazzo Speigeltent, Edinburgh

THE BELIEVERS, PRODUCED BY FRANTIC ASSEMBLY (UK TOUR)

London 2012 Olympic ceremonies (L2012C ltd) 

On the job - I was an L2012C swing sound tech for the duration of the L2012C contract.