Merry Kingsmas & Happy 2024 New Year!

Wishing all of our loyal customers, friends and crew a wonderful Christmas time and peaceful New Year. The office closes 22//12/23 and we re open 02/01/2024. Ho Ho Ho! : )

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! King Highlights - 2022

Here at King Sound, we’ve had a fantastic, fruitful and very busy year but we made it through and enjoyed every part of the challenge.

We provided audio, lighting, stage management and crews for the multiple shows with the audio package featuring our brand new L-Acoustics K2 system. We’ve maintained our relationships with many long term clients as they’ve recovered from the lost Covid years. Our Orbit festival stage has been very busy with our Layher upgrades being well received by all.

We’ve also taken on more full time staff, upgraded our vans to EU6 standard and launched our dry hire website, which has brought many new customers. Its been a high tempo period but its been great!

A little 'thank you' gift this Christmas for our clients

As we cruise towards the end of ‘22 and enjoy the festive period, we’d like to pause and say a heartfelt thanks to all our customers and friends for their continued faith in our fiercely independent and proudly Bristolian company as our growth continues.

SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS: Bristol Sounds, Pride and Harbourfest - Part I

Summer ‘22 - so far, so good!

Here at King Sound, we’ve had a fantastic, busy, crazy summer but we made it through and enjoyed every part of the challenge.

We’ve still have August fully booked ahead of us but thought we’d share with you a few summer summer highlights so far.

If you’ve missed ‘‘Summer Highlights - Part II’’, click here to read about our busy summer.

BRISTOL SOUNDS — 22-27 June.

Bringing a diverse bill of live music to the heart of the city, the open-air summer concert series is one of the Bristol’s iconic shows and being our home town gig we were thrilled to be asked back for the seventh year running by promoters Crosstown Concerts.

Following a two-year hiatus, Bristol Sounds marked its return to the city’s much-loved harbourside with an expanded schedule of headliners over the 6 night run of shows: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The War on Drugs, Elbow, Jungle, First Aid Kit and Paolo Nutini all graced the stage at Amphitheatre to sell out audiences and great acclaim. We provided audio, stage management and crew for the shows with the audio package featuring our new L-Acoustics K2 system (which was greatly appreciated by all the visiting engineers) and Digico SD12 consoles. 6 days of early starts and late nights took its toll on our crew, but they remained rock solid though out.

SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS: Bristol Sounds, Pride and Harbourfest - Part II

Next stop was BRISTOL PRIDE — 9 July.

Not only one of the UK’s largest Pride events, but one of Bristol’s largest festivals, Pride is something we’ve been closely involved with since the beginning. Returning to the Bristol Downs after a Covid enforced break Bristol Pride was back - bigger, bolder and glitzier than ever before!

If you’ve missed ‘‘Summer Highlights - Part I’’, click here to read about our busy summer.

Perhaps our biggest full production gig of the year, we provided sound, lights, crew and staging over the whole site with kit spread across the five performance stages. The main stage, which was headlined by the fantastic Carly Ray Jepson, featured our 15M Orbit stage and a full-on festival sound and lighting system featuring our new L-Acoustics K2 system, Grand MA3 lighting console and Digico audio desks. All other stages enjoyed technical upgrades which kept the crowds dancing, laughing and having fun all day long. Site wide we proved over 150 boxes of PA, mostly L-Acoustics, over 300 square metres of staging and many dozens of lighting fixtures all from our extensive stocks of equipment. The build, break and 1 day show took up 8 full days and we employed around 40 people to help our full time staff produce the event.

And finally HARBOURFEST — 15 - 17 July (50th anniversary this year!)

The festival attracts over 250,000 visitors to enjoy over 120 hours of entertainment, across seven stages from spoken word to the latest Bristol musical talent, local dance performers, world class circus and on-water activity.

Each area of the one mile long festival was carefully developed by the Bristol Harbour Festival programmers Cirque Bijou, Thekla, Trinity Community Arts, Tony Benjamin, My Future My Choice, Rebecca Tantony, Grain Barge, Brunel's ss Great Britain and Jelli Records. A fleet of feature vessels was staying in the harbour as well as over 300 visiting boats, yachts and ships. 

Brand new addition to King Sound Reinforcement — KING HIRE website!

Hi everyone! 

Big, big news at King Sound headquarters: we are really excited and proud to finally introduce you to KING HIRE and our brand-new equipment hire site: hire.kingsr.com! 

Intended as a quick reference guide to the over 12,000 individual items of equipment in our hire stock, the new hire site hire.kingsr.com enables customers to quickly check what we can provide to other hire companies and individuals seeking event and production equipment of all kinds.

Currently King HIRE includes 12 essential sections:

Audio | Lighting | Rigging | AV | Backline | Cables | Staging | Packages | Staging structures | Ex-Hire | Effects | Power.

Each one includes extensive up-to-date catalogue conveniently divided by category. Each category section contains dozens of product pages with pictures, detailed descriptions and technical specifications for your assistance. Each page also includes pricing for the item per day and per week (incl. VAT).

Dynamic, modern and easy to use, the platform showcases our extensive stock and also helps rent any product you might be interested in.

We’ve spent hours and hours, researching the market and working closely with our design and branding team to bring the concept to life and importantly, make it better than anything we’ve previously seen. 

Please come, browse and if you are not exactly sure what you need, that’s no problem — contact our friendly team (via the simple form on the site) and they will be more than happy to advise best option for your project or event. Alternatively, the platform might suggest similar items based on your search results (just click on ‘‘looking for something else?’’ option).

We have a huge selections of various products and we are constantly adding new things to our range, just choose the category and start looking. If you are not able to find what you require, please email us at hire@kingsr.com and we’ll do our best to locate the item for you.

We’re still testing the platform so please let us know should you deal with any technical issue, our web support will be straight there to fix that. We’ve put lots of energy and time to make it work, yet we know we can improve it even further and we only can do it with your help.

Look forward to hearing from you and we do hope you love it as much as we do (just bear with us a bit as we are dealing with growing number of inquiries!)

Oh, and celebrate a big launch, we are giving a 10% discount till end of December to our first 15 clients using it so feel free to share or take advantage of this offer yourself.

Happy Holidays and see you at hire.kingsr.com!

Welcome to the Team!

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King Sound Reinforcement would like to welcome Phil Round as the newest member of the Team. Phil, having just returned from a 2 year stint working for a large AV company in New Zealand, contacted us shortly after moving to Bristol looking to get involved.

His CV looked good and we liked his ‘can do’ attitude. He initially worked for us a crew member on technical and non-technical assignments and the more we saw of him, the more impressed we were. Mindful that good people get snapped up quickly in this industry we invited him to apply for a full time job Live Event Production Manager with a focus on audio.

Phil’s calm attitude, friendly manner and solid technical ability are a great fit and he’s quickly settled in to the King team. Expect to see him operating shows, designing systems and advancing jobs with clients.

Managing Director Paul King says: ‘I am well known for being extremely picky about who we employ, especially in our sound department. The fact I hunted Phil down and offered him a job tells you all you need to know about my regard for Mr Round’s abilities!’

Phil, immediately took the sound department under his wing and got stuck in prepping shows and building racks.

King Sound Invests in L-Acoustics.→

King have taken delivery of an L-Acoustics Kara system marking a major new commitment to the brand that will see further investments as we refresh our hire stock. Our initial purchase consists of 18 Kara line array elements, 8 SB18, 6 SB28, and 6 LA8 in two LA RAKs. We look forward to joining, and playing an active part in, the L-Acoustics Rental Network.