The Agenda streetwear and action sports festival made waves in Long Beach, California on June 30th as
over 15,000 fans gathered to take in a wide array of music, brands and
experiences. The Agenda Festival is a one-day event which can be thought
of as a curated mall of pop-up shops dropped in the middle of a music
festival. Over 500 of the most influential street and lifestyle brands
in the world drew crowds alongside live music from featured acts such as
Brockhampton, Lil Yachty, Yung Lean, and 16-year-old rising star Billie
Eilish.
An
Allen & Heath dLive S5000 handled front of house duties while
another S5000 supported monitors for Billie Eilish’s highly-anticipated
performance. A dLive fan and Los Angeles native, the indie electro-pop
wunderkind has over 100 million streams on Spotify alone and her music
has been featured on the Netflix series, “Thirteen
Reasons Why.”
According
to Mike Bangs, Touring / Live Sound Manager for Allen & Heath USA,
“Billie has been out with dLive for a while now and since she was local
for this show she opted to go big with a pair of S5000 surfaces with
DM48 and DM0 MixRacks. The fully redundant configuration was
straightforward using a digital split over gigaACE, with 96kHz audio
passing through the system around the arena as
needed."
Swedish
artist Yung Lean opted for a more portable approach, flying in an Allen
& Heath C1500 from Europe to use on his shows in the United States.
Bangs commented, “We had a
C1500 running off of a DM0 at front of house for Yung Lean, who brought
it all the way from Sweden. They’ve been taking this all over the US,
which puts an exclamation point on how portable the system is.” Using
just four rack spaces, the DM0 dLive MixRack is targeted at distributed
audio scenarios and digital splits, housing Allen & Heath's XCVI
processing core along with audio I/O, control and audio networking
ports.
“The
Agenda Festival is all about the next big thing, so it’s fitting to see
dLive showing up with multiple artists on the bill,” says Jeff Hawley,
Marketing Manager for Allen & Heath USA. “From the flyable C1500 all
the way up to S7000, dLive is the intuitive, powerful and reliable
festival console choice no matter which artist steps out on the stage.”