Have you ever been to the Masonic lodge in Covent Garden…? We spent a day there capturing a performance by Lewis Capaldi for the launch of his 1st album. Sometimes it’s not just the technical that’s challenging when recording live music on location, but also logistics. Driving vans into Central London, followed by long load in’s through ornate and listed buildings, all before the technical challenge of a long walking shot wirelessly recorded. Live piano was captured with beautiful ribbon mics accentuating the ambience of the church like space. ALX worked with Lewis again going into album 2 at the vevo studios in London - it’s never a dull shoot with Lewis!
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Ed Sheeran
With Ed releasing his new album “subtract”, Mahogany were selected to create 8 live performances in one day for a number of media outlets. ALX sound covered the sound recording of all performances, liaising with Ed’s team to create seamless sound recording and monitoring across three locations. Set up’s varied from solo performances with hidden mics to a 10 piece band with strings, drums, multiple vocals and Aaron Dessner on piano. It was a challenging but rewarding day that required meticulous planning and proficiency with various digital audio systems. Everything was recorded, with multiple redundancy’s, edited and delivered in the one day.
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Burna Boy
The U.N, as in THE United Nations, was a surprise client to see on an email but we were immensely proud to help facilitate this last minute performance for the Nations United film. Called with only 48 hours notice to prep we spoke directly with the band and MD, made all technical arrangements and captured a full multi track recording. In keeping with the short notice delivery was 24 hours later so mixing took place the same night as the shoot and the final mix and master was delivered to edit 6am the next morning.
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Carly Rae Jepsen
True Pop royalty- we first worked with Team CRJ for an exclusive Vevo Performance before being tasked with maybe the most ambitious ALX Sound job to date - a live performance in Lapland (a real place it turns out!). After some Zoom meetings with the production company, director James Barnes and CRJ’s stage managers, we successfully sourced all hire equipment, arranged trucking to Finland, met it the other side and built an outdoor recording set up next to a lake in northern Finland. A truly memorable few days.
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Rita Ora
Pop royalty, Rita Ora, performed a full band rendition of her new singles on Amazon Music's Curved stage for the release of her new record.
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Cat Burns ft Sam Smith
Working with Amazon Music and director Charlie Sarsfield is always fun, and with Charlie, often a technical challenge due to his ambitious ideas. So when asked if we could manage Cat Burns and Sam Smith, traveling form outdoors into a building, recording live with monitoring via IEMs we of course said yes! It was a head scratcher to work out the rig but we specced out the best wireless available and with a little on the day troubleshooting had everything working to achieve great results.
We worked with Cat again for the Brit Awards rising star performances capturing and mixing a beautiful solo performance.
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Ben Howard
Ben Howard's stunning record 'Is It?' came to the Vevo Studio London for performances of Spirit and Days of Lantana, performed by his incredible band.
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Brit Awards
ALX Sound have continued to work with the Brit Awards on the capture and delivery of a series of special performances with each artist nominated for the prestigious Critics Choice Award. Performers have included Cat Burns, The Last Dinner Party, Nia Archives, The Last Dinner Party and more.
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Bastille
One of the highlights from 2022 was the addition of Coal Drop Sessions to ALX Sound regulars; your favourite bands, on a canal boat. Genius! A particularly special moment was recording Bastille playing the OG classic ‘Flaws’. They were rich with harmonies and somehow managed to not get distracted by the ever growing crowd following along on the shore. There’s certainly some logistical issues to contend with working on a boat, but we’ve created a rig that’s highly portable and can be entirely run on battery power.
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Sigrid
Working with Sigrid and her touring team on a number of shoots we’ve witnessed the highest level of professionalism and musical ability you could hope to find. From The great escape via DSCVR artists to watch to most recently a Vevo Studio Performance, we ensured a simple integration of Jan Halsvik’s touring desk for In Ear Monitoring whilst using the permanent infrastructure at Vevo Studio for capture. Always amazing performances, recorded entirely live and mixed in post by ALX Sound.
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Tom Grennan
Tom first came to Vevo DSCVR and we’ve worked again with him and his team to record and mix performances for Vevo, Sony and as part of the St Patricks Day online special when Lockdown prevented the usual festivities. Always a fun and passionate musician to work with.
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Olly Alexander
We’ve worked with Olly and the rest of Years and Years on a number of occasions, from their early days doing Vevo DSCVR, to a more established Vevo Lift shoot and most affectingly for the Google Nest Sessions shot in Lockdown. Tasked with capturing and mixing session during a global pandemic was a technical challenge - we talked artists through various set ups via Zoom and What’sApp. Olly delivered a beautiful performance which required some post production but the end result felt especially moving. Olly returned to perform Eurovision banger Dizzy at Vevo in 2024.
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Dodie
After first working together at The Great Escape in 2017 and subsequently on multiple Vevo sessions, we were very excited to be approached directly to record and mix a special live performance video series for the ‘Hot Mess’ EP. Alongside Director Tash Tung, Creative Director Greta Issac and Dodie herself, we worked out the solutions to capture the ideas, recorded everything in the space live, and mixed the performances with Dodie via both in person and remote sessions.
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Kasier Chiefs
Getting to work with a band you grew up listening to is a great reminder of the joy of the work we do, and Kaiser Chiefs banging out Ruby was a real dream to record and mix after seeing them live multiple times as a teenager. One of the loudest acts - pure rock and roll!
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Craig David
The legend! The most positive and uplifting artist you could hope to work with and undeniably a fun experience to find yourself editing and mixing Craigs vocals.
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Headie One
Headie was the first artist to ever grace the Vevo Rounds stage and excelled in his performance. Recorded and mixed for Vevo DSCVR. ALX Sound have continued to work with Headie across a number of projects, most recently as part of the BBC Studios "Living Lyrics" series including capturing this unique acoustic performance at legendary Abbey Road Studio 2.
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Enny
ALX Sound have had the pleasure of working with Enny on a number of occasions and projects. She recorded our debut Vevo CTRL Shoot and more recently was part of BET's Living Lyrics series which included a mixture of live shoots on location and live recordings in studio.
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Dylan
In 2022 Kaizen Collective and Universal Music asked us to capture, mix, master and deliver a full recording of Dylan’s headline show at Koko. We had done a similar recording the year before for her headline show at The Garage, as well as partnering on a Vevo DSCVR session and mixing the MTV Push performance. Alongside recording for the live video (which was directed by Jack Kirchner), we also delivered 6 mixes for the re-release of the album. From The Garage to Koko, next stop…Wembley?! Fingers crossed