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Artists for Road Safety was held on the 27th of April 2007 at the Artificial Beach Rostrum. A total of 9 bands and 3 DJs performed in the event. Business Image Group coordinated the event. It was a joint effort by the UN and the Government of Maldives.
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The official launching of the WARF submarine fibre-optic cable was held at Dharubaaruge on 15th March 2007 at 0930hrs. WARF Telecom International Pvt. Ltd. is a consortium comprising of Wataniya, Reliance Communications and Focus Infocomm. The event was organized by Think. Primary sound requirements were for a Speech Sound inclusive of a video presentation. The event was broadcast live on TVM and VOM.
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Sound reinforcement for this project required that the sound be not too loud but listenable and was designed only for the seating area of the Alimas Ufaa Carnival stage. One band – Amazon Jade, dance troops and an aerobics performance from Heat was on stage.

After setting and tuning up the master sound, Heat’s aerobics team had a rehearsal. After that it was the band’s sound check. There were no rehearsals for any dance troops.
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I was called to engineer the sound at Collina for Tsunami Victims held on the 7th of January 2007 at the National Stadium, Male’, Maldives. The event was organized by Haveeru Daily and was broadcast live on TV, radio and on web stream. A mixed line-up from Atoll Records performed two songs – one a theme song for the event and “Mithuraa”.
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Flora band (from Moscow) performed at a private VVIP function. My job was to coordinate their sound requirements and make sure everything was as per what they requested. We were requested to be on available on site but, they had their engineers with them. Their engineer told me that Flora Band is one of the top commercial bands in Russia. Certainly they were great musicians, played really tight and right.

Here’s something that I learnt: “Ras Va Three…” hope I got the spelling right. I heard this a lot during their sound check I was told that it is “One, Two, Three” in Russian.

Live / Tour Sound Company: Island Music, Maldives.
Team: Hambe, Shaam, Ibbe and I

Rhythmic Prophecies – a latin-jazz trio from the USA performed on the 28th & 29th of November 2006 in Dharubaaruge (Faashanaa Maalam) at 2100hrs. Percussionist Reinaldo De Jesus, Bassist Luques Curtis and Pianist Zaccai Curtis kept the audiences grooving with their powerful beats and mind bending solos.

They also conducted workshops on latin rhythms from 1000hrs to 1200hrs on the 28th and, 1000hrs to 1300hrs on the 29th. The workshops were very lively and participants included kids, teenagers and adults – mostly local musicians. About 30 participants registered for the workshops through National Centre for the Arts (NCA).
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The YES Campaign’s music show was held in Dharumavantha School on the 24th and 25th November 2006.

At the planning meeting, I requested for the input lists of the bands via email and got sketchy details prior to the event. The weather was bad and there were massive delays in the work flow as the stage was not completed on time. The bands had access to the stage, just a couple of hours before the event and the sound check was called off at the last-minute, at the request of the organizers. It seems that the exhibitors complained about the loud sound.
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Redhan organized by MCs Event Management Group in association with Maldives Surfing Association was held in Kuda Bandos on the 24th of August 2006. The sound setup initially was designed for an audience of 2000 pax and to cater for a live band and three DJs.  

Initially I planned to have two tunings for the master sound, one for the live band and one for the DJs. However, due to massive delays with co-ordination and with bad weather, the live band was cancelled last minute and only the DJs performed. [More]

The Bohemian Rainbow Concert was held on the 2nd of June 2006 in Olympus Stage at 20:00hrs. It featured a talented array of young musicians along with some impressive guest performers.

The master sound was tuned one day prior in the morning leaving the rest of the day and night for the bands’ sound checks. As many individual artistes and different line-ups performed, a sound check had to be done for all. Some extra time was spent on giving newer artistes to get accustomed to the acoustics of the venue. [More]

Fasy released their DVD of their concert in an event held on the 14th of May 2006 at 21:45hrs in Studio 3, TVM.

They approached me to engineer the sound. They rented the gear from Island Music and Hambe hooked up the system. The live in-house audience had a capacity of 500 pax. However, a part of the event was telecasted live on national television starting from 22:30hrs. [More]