Tag: academyoflivetechnology
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Life, Interrupted
This is not how I wished my birthday to be. Today should have been a day of great accomplishment. Proudly celebrating the successful completion of my degree and looking ahead to postgraduate aspirations through a summer rich with opportunity. Finally staying the course to the end, even as a mature student, and making a difference…
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Never Mind The Molochs
Back in March, the entire second year of the Academy’s Live Event Production course were assessed together across all disciplines. Tasked to put their fledgling talents to the test by collaborating on a video, lighting, and audio production with a live band. Although my (wall of) sound mixing skills were later channelled for indie-rockers Tummyache,…
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The Day the (SFX) Circus Came
Lancashire-based live effects wizards BPM SFX recently brought the heat to campus. With an incendiary portfolio including work with Sleep Token, Sum 41, and Oasis, they filled Studio 001 with stage-tech toys of varying lethality. The session gave (sensibly supervised) students a chance to play with professional kit that ran the gamut from innocuous confetti…
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Spoilt for Opportunity
I have crossed continents in my decades-long creative course, making the most of every opportunity I could muster in America and Europe. As this chapter of the journey reaches its coda at Yorkshire’s Academy of Live Technology, I am surrounded by excellent, enthusiastic talent as eager for experience as I was when I began. Although…
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Fluidity
Now the rush of term-end is behind me, I can afford time to document some of the projects I’ve been up to between my Academy studies. FLUIDITY is an experimental short film improvised one weekend in February 2026 with the Academy of Live Technology’s Postgraduate cohort, at the behest of visiting Multimedia Artist-Engineer Diana Scarborough.…
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She offers me projection
This is probably the first, last, and only time I’ll ever mention the former “Bad Boy” of “Pop”. A common motif scattered around the Academy campus is the visage of Robbie Williams. Site-based stage innovators TAIT have built scenery for his prior productions, with the larger than life result donated afterwards to make an effective…
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Reading ahead to the New Year
On the surface, the back end of 2025 appears a curiously quiet coda to an explosive summer, with nary any evidence nor scandal to show for it. Yet the last few months have become some of the most fulfilling of my life. Returning to the Academy for the second year of my Foundation degree, I…
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Project Caligari
As the days tolled ever onward to All Hallow’s Eve, an opportunity arose to make use of a new creative space on campus – just by our CentR Stage bar and just in time for the Academy’s Halloween party. Despite only receiving full access and equipment on the morning of festivities, a hastily scribbled tribute…
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Back to Skool
Kit bag eagerly shouldered, I prepare to start my second year at the Academy of Live Technology. Returning to finish off my Foundation degree in Live Event Production, I’ll be specialising in Audio and Visuals instead of doing a little bit of everything. Although it seems, despite the long summer, that I’ve barely ever left…
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Green Fields and Reckoning
After the triumphant experience of managing the main stage at Metal Magic, I lingered around Denmark for another fortnight. Working on a gruelling festival tour that took me around the country and to the limits of endurance. Celebrating its forty-third summer, Grøn Koncert is a mainstay of Danish Pop Music, raising money for Muskelsvindfonden –…
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For the Magic of Metal
I never had “Backing Dancer for Arthur Brown” on my 2025 Bingo card… Metal Magic has always been one of my favourite festivals, having only missed out on a single accessible year since 2014. I’ve always found the chilled out ‘Garden Party’ atmosphere to be appealing, a reflection on the friendliness I’ve experienced in all…
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Magna cum Loudly
As I take pause to commemorate another year round the sun, it is the right time to reveal just what I’ve been up to these past months. A secret to most, although obvious to many, l have returned to the hallowed halls of academia with a suitably Rock and Roll twist. Last year I began…
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