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The People at Astralsound

This section is for anyone who would like to know:

Who we are	See below.
Who we work with	The bands, performers and miscellaneous hirers we have engineered for or hired to in recent years.
Where we work	The various venues, festivals and other organisations we work with.
What it all looks like	Some photos of us - and various performers - that some of our friends have taken and allowed us to use. Note that the photographs page may load slowly, particularly on dial-up connections.

Astralsound was created and is managed by Tony Lloyd.

Tony is an audiophile, and an experienced performer (acoustic & electric rhythm & lead guitars, lead & backing vocals and harmonica, as well as a one-man-band). He has been a member of the Musician's Union since 1981. With a background in electronics and his own PA system, the PA hire business was a natural career development, and he began hiring PA systems and equipment to Cardiff bands in 1991. In the last sixteen years he has worked with & mixed a large number and wide variety of acts. He was the sound engineer for most live music productions - covering a wide variety of styles - at St Donats Arts Centre (in South Wales) from 1999 until a cutback in their live events programme in 2005. He was the main engineer for Taplas productions at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre in Cardiff from 1997 until he left Cardiff in 2000. In Gloucestershire he has hired systems to and engineered performances in many local venues, and as well as frequently covering productions at the Subscription Rooms in Stroud, he has engineered all the Painswick Blues shows over a four-year period, and all the shows at Shush in Cheltenham until the Hub closed at the end of 2006. He has also worked as an independent contractor for other PA companies in Gloucestershire, including CAV, Chinnick Theatre Services, and Spadger Sound. He has engineered many performances in larger multi-event productions, including Beyond The Border (where he was senior engineer in 2003 & 2004), Chalford Feast, Cheltenham April Ball, Cheltenham Folk Festival, Nailsworth Festival, Stroud Festival, and Newent Onion Fayre.

Tony In a suit!

Other - regular as well as ad hoc - crew members include Dan Giles (Technician), Sam Muskett (Sound Engineer/Technician), James Styler (Roadie/Trainee), Nick Timberlake (Sound Engineer/Technician), as well as other more occasional freelance technicians and engineers.

Dan On sabbatical in the Cameron Highlands.		Nick In a security-pass mug-shot.

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