About Us

The People at Astralsound

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Astralsound was created in 2001 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 twenty 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 including The Centaur and Cheltenham Town Hall, and as well as frequently covering productions at the Subscription Rooms in Stroud, he 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 Hire 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.

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 occasional freelance technicians and engineers.

All the personnel we employ or recommend have substantial experience in the live entertainment industry, as well as the benefit of in-house technical information and audio tools.

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