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Live Production of the Year
Winner: Kyile Minogue X2008 tour
From May 6 until December 22, Kylie Minogue OBE’s 10th concert tour, X2008, saw the Australian pop princess perform across Europe, South America, Asia and Australasia. One of the top grossing tours of 2008, a film of X2008 was released on DVD in December.
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Tour Manager of the Year
Winner: Timm Cleasby
Famed as a one-time, multi-instrumentalist member of Onion Trump, the band formed by The Darkness’ touring crew (he was their monitor engineer), Timm has been much more focused on tour management over the past year or so with both the Arctic Monkeys — often involving juggling club gigs for 1,100 people one day and stadium shows for 55,000 the next — and lead singer Alex Turner’s spin-off band, The Last Shadow Puppets.
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Production Co-ordinator of the Year
Winner: Helen 'Hels Bells' Smith
The Prodigy, Slayer and The Cure are amongst the most recent bands to benefit from the unique skills and wacky humour of one of this industry’s most colourful characters.
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Favourite International Production Company
Winner: Westfalen Sound
The party held in Emsdetten last autumn to commemorate Westfalen Sound’s 30th anniversary marked a significant milestone in the career of the German rental company’s founder, Carl Cordier.
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Production Manager of the Year
Winnner: Richard Young
Now synonymous with Radiohead, back in 2002, Richard was part of the TPi Awards production team, through his company Ballista who supplied the table-to-table comms system with which guests annoyed each other... remember?
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Favourite Crew Company
Winner: Showforce
Since 1991 when it began life in Stratford, east London, Showforce has established a global reputation as one of the best in its field.
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Favourite Rigging Company
Winner: Summit Steel
Summit Steel recently joined PRG, the Production Resource Group, 14 years after the Kent-based company was founded by Jon Bray.
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Rigger of the Year
Winner: Gianluca Ganapini
Italian stallion Gianluca Ganapini — known to many as ‘Gana’ — made his grand entry into the business of show back in 1986 as a stagehand.
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Favourite Sound Rental Company
Winnner: SSE Audio Group
Founded by John & Heather Penn in 1976, SSE Hire has grown to encompass a number of complementary business operations.
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Moniter Engineer of the Year
Winner: Ben Brooker
He started his professional career in sound in 1995 by sweeping the floor and making tea at Liverpool’s Adlib Audio.
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Front of House Engineer of the Year
Winner: Jon Lemon
One of the rock music industry’s leading and most experienced live sound engineers, Jon has worked with many of the world’s most well-known and successful artists including:
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Favourite Rehearsal Facility
Winner: Music Bank
Situated close to Tower Bridge, there is little that Music Bank cannot offer in terms of production and pre-production requirements. With a staggering 40,000ft2 of space, its four rehearsal studios are spacious and have natural light and panoramic views that are unsurpassed by any other in London.
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Backline Technician of the Year
Winner: Huw 'Sid' Pryce
The 2009 TPi Awards marks the introduction of the Backline Technician category. It’s been a long time coming and who better to scoop the inaugural prize than one of the industry’s true veterans... Sid Pryce.
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Favourite Venue
Winner: Manchester Evening News Arena
According to figures released by Pollstar, based on concert ticket sales between 2002 and 2007, Manchester Evening News Arena is the busiest live venue on the planet.
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Favourite Lighting Rental Company
Winner: Bandit Lites
In 2008, Bandit Lites celebrated 40 years of excellence. The story behind this now-global lighting company — with offices in Nashville, San Francisco, London (Bedford), Hong Kong, Taiwan and its headquarters in Knoxville, Tennessee — is littered with many significant milestones, many of which have helped to shape today’s live performance industry.
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Lighting Designer of the Year
Winner: Bryan Leitch
As a child in the late ’50s, Bryan’s interest in music was kick-started when he was invited to watch Jerry Lee Lewis and other stars of the day perform live on TV’s Oh Boy show.
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Favourite Staging Company
Winner: Stageco
Founded in 1984 by Hedwig de Meyer (above, with 2008 TPi Award) as a direct result of his work on Belgium’s renowned Rock Werchter festival, Stageco has built a worldwide network with locations in Belgium (HQ), Germany, France, the Netherlands and the USA.more...
Set Designer of the Year
Winner: Ray Winkler
Born in Indonesia in 1967, Ray began his working life as a carpenter and has been working as an entertainment architect/designer at Stufish (a.k.a. The Mark Fisher Studio) since 1997. “It was supposed to be a six-week stint,” he says. “But I’m still here!”
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Favourite Transport Company
EST
EST — Edwin Shirley Trucking — had one of its busiest years in 2008
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Favourite Security / Crowd Management Company
Winner: Showsec
Showsec has consistently led the way in the professional delivery of crowd management and security services in a fast evolving live events industry.
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Favourite Travel Company
Winner: Music by Appointment
Music By Appointment Ltd (MBA) moves bands, artists, theatre productions, comedians, specialist shows, film and video crews around the world.
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Favourite Freight Company
Winner: Sound Moves
By assembling the most experienced and respected logistics experts to form the company in 1995, Sound Moves brought a new confidence and and an alternative to services available at that time.
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Stage Manager of the Year
Winner: Joah Rosen
Say the name Josh Rosen and the words Brixton and Academy follow instantaneously.
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Favourite Video Services Company
Winner: XL Video
Originally founded in 1996, with its UK office opening in 2000, XL Video quickly established itself as the international market leader in the field of video production for concert touring, outdoor events, television shows, theatre, corporate events and trade shows.
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Video Director of the Year
Winner: Blue Leach
Having spent a significant part of his career as a touring screens director, with such names as Depeche Mode, R.E.M., the Spice Girls, Paul McCartney, Simply Red, Bruce Springsteen, Manic Street Preachers, Snow Patrol and The Verve, Blue has developed an ability to focus on and examine a band and artist’s performance.
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Favourite Catering Company
Winner: Eat to the Beat
Seven consecutive TPi Awards? Some achievement for the Watford-based catering firm that started life a whopping quarter of a century ago this month!
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John Peel Unsung Hero Award
Winner: Roger Thomas, Truck Driving Supremo
Known throughout the live events world as the ‘Henry Kissinger of Diesel’, Roger began driving for EST as a freelancer in 1976 after eight years in the North East as a structural steel draftsman and a two-year stint as a teacher.more...
