Nexo returns to Thai Wonderfruit festival

Thailand:

Promoter Mooban was able to go ahead with the Wonderfruit Festival in late December, with Mr Team Productions supplying Nexo STM systems for the seventh consecutive year as Pok Sutat Kohkiat and his team adapted their designs for a reduced audience area at the Siam Country Club in Pattaya.

“Wonderfruit attracts an elite international audience,” said Pok. “Visitors come from all over Southeast Asia for this event because of the quality of the performers and the diversity of the entertainment, which includes arts, crafts, cooking and yoga classes as well as live music. Standards are high. Our technicians are often amazed by the quality of performers, who come from all over the world.  They bring their own engineers, and we have to look at more than 40 riders.”

Mr Team Productions handles audio production for the main Baan Sabai live stage as well as Baan Arai DJ tent, and decided to fly the Nexo S118 subbass cabinets with the main arrays of the STM Series at the main stage for the first time. “We only had 40m from FOH to the back of the area; the lowered stage didn’t have enough room to house a sub array, so we put 16 S118s in omni mode and flew them together with the six-a-side main and bass STM Series main arrays,” he continued.

A front-fill system of down-firing Nexo Alpha cabinets was mounted in the roof, with Alpha also used for side-fill. Stage monitors were 12 Nexo PS15s under the control of a Yamaha PM5D monitor console.

More Alpha was used at the Baan Arai DJ tent, supplemented by STM B112 bass cabinets and S2 subbass. Two other DJ stages, Singha’s Ziggurat and Baan Moonism, were using Nexo PS15s, and the French brand could even be found in the festival canteen, where ID24s kept up the entertainment.

All attendees and staff at the festival complied with Thailand’s strict pandemic rules, including body temperature readings, hand sanitisation and mask wearing. Attendance was reduced to just 30% capacity, which regrettably resulted in Moobaan Wonder having to cancel the last couple of weekends in the schedule.

“We are now dependant on the vaccine to see whether we can come back this year,” said Pok. “At Mr Team, we are diversifying into other areas – government projects, video mapping, museum and exhibition projects, and installations – in order to keep going. I believe small events will resume if the health situation improves, and we will start to see the first signs of new growth.”