Canadian “melodic punk rockers” Billy Talent recently wrapped up an arena tour of their home country with Delicate Productions providing the main PA, which consisted of Martin Audio’s MLA line arrays and system components, and the band’s long-time collaborators Metal Works in charge of monitors and front of house.
The PA was comprised of 14 Martin Audio MLA cabinets and one MLD (down fill) flown on each side of the stage, with 12 W8LC per side for left and right side PA, and 12 MLX subs floor-stacked.
In addition, eight W8LM cabinets were positioned along the downstage edge for in fill/out fill. Martin Audio MA 4.2 amplifiers were used to power the side and in fill/out fill loudspeakers
Crew for the show included Bob Strakele (FOH engineer) and Matt Blakely (production manager/monitor engineer) from the band, Al Woods (audio crew chief), Kenny Kaiser (MLA tech) from Delicate and Luke Purchase (FOH/monitor tech) from Metal Works.
Woods states, “The MLA is a fabulous system, super easy to fly and extremely powerful. It sounds great and amazingly even throughout the venue. We get so used to other systems tailing off in bigger venues, but this fella’ never ceased to surprise.”
Billy Talent has been together since 1993, starting out as Pezz and later changing their name for legal reasons. The band includes Ben Kowalewicz (lead vocals), Ian D’Sa (lead guitar), Jon Gallant (bass) and Aaron Solowoniuk (drums). Opening acts for the tour included Sum41, Hollerado and Indian Handcrafts.
