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Gabriele

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About Me

I make sounds, I tweak sounds, my own ones, others'.. it's all like painting to me.. what else can u do if you have a blank canvas and tons of paint? just... paint!
CURRENT PROJECTS:
Siouxsie Sioux - World Tour - Monitor Engineer (Universal)
The Bedford and The Regal Room - resident sound engineer
Britannia Row Productions - Foh/monitors sound engineer
Musflash TV (Sky Digital) - broadcast sound engineer
RECENT PROJECTS:
Air Traffic Uk headline tour - monitor engineer (EMI)
Wallis Bird - FoH engineer (Island Records)
Larrikin Love - Uk tour Foh engineer (Warner Bros)
Client - European tour Foh engineer (Mute Records)
The Barbican Centre - resident FoH engineer for the main concert hall
Artists served to date (alphabetical):
Air Traffic, Airman, Jon Allen, Steve Appleton, Badly Drawn Boy, Subhankar Banerjee, George Benson, Julia Biel, Jon Bilbrough, Wallis Bird, The Blues Brothers Band, Rakesh Chaurasia, Client, Jarvis Cocker, Coldcut, Gideon Conn, Gigi D'Alessio, The Deadbeats, Al Di Meola, The Displacements, Jason Donovan, Example, Jose Feliciano, Antonio Forcione, Peter Gabriel, The Guillemots, Roy Hanes, The Hat, Imogen Heap, Modeste Hugues, The Hurt, Jarabe De Palo, Johnossi, Kings of Leon, Diana Krall, KT Tunstall, Larrikin Love, Libertango, London Philarmonic Orchestra, London Symphonic Orchestra, Manhattan Transfer, John Martyn, Sergio Mendez, Pat Metheny, Kylie Minogue, Tony Moore, James Morrison, Never The Bride, Nizlopi, Noa, Paolo Nutini, Oregon, Mark Owen, John Patitucci, Portico Quartet, Robert Post, Pull Tiger Tail, Steve Reich, Rob Reynolds, Riccardi, Rival Joustas, Lee Rogers, John Scofield, Shout Out Louds, Lucie Silvas, David Sneddon, Sonic Youth, The Storys, Tiger Force, Pete Townshend (The Who), Twin50, Foy Vance, Suzanne Vega, Louis Vega, Mario Venuti, Tamsin Warley, Miles Winter Roberts, Jamie Woon, Paul Young, ...
Venues:
London Astoria, Barbican Concert Hall, London Barfly, The Bedford, Brixton Academy, Cherry Jam, Dublin Castle, The Garage, The Luminaire, Neighborhood Club, Notting Hill Arts Club, ULU, Upstairs @ The garage, ...
Festivals:
Bedford Bandstand, Bestival, Best Of Festivals, Canary Wharf Summer Gala, Electric Garden, Electric Picnic (Ireland), FIZ (Zaragoza, Spain), Get Loaded in The Park, Glastonbury, Latitude, Lowlands (Holland), Marylebone Street Fest, Metro Weekender, One Taste, Oxegen (Ireland), ParkPop (Holland), Soundcheck (Germany), T In The Park, V Festival, Waveform Project, Werchter (Belgium), WOMAD

My Interests

sound engineering, music, design, photography, modern architecture, snowboarding, moto x.. and Catania!

I'd like to meet:

the Pope, Elvis Presley, Billy Corgan, Thom Yorke, Dave Grohl and Berlusconi (and then no doubt I will be arrested..). Oh yes.. and you, if we haven't met yet!

Music:

Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters and Fugazi. Sigur Ros, Shipping News, The Cure... Airman, Twin50, Wallis Bird, Riccardi...

Movies:

The Godfather, Donnie Darko, Down By Law

Television:

Friends, The Family Guy, Graham Norton

Heroes:

Che Guevara, Martin Luther King, Billy Corgan, Francesco Virlinzi

My Blog

long time no blog - life update (end of an era?)

hi all.. I haven't blogged in a long time and a few fairly major things have happened in my life, so I thought Id give whoever cares an update!First and foremost: I have sadly stopped working at the B...
Posted by Gabriele on Thu, 01 May 2008 05:36:00 PST

moving ’up’ in the World..

heyaI have just returned from Paris, I was there for 2 days to mix monitors for Siouxsie Sioux and her band. But it was no regular gig: we did it ON the Eiffel Tower! Right UP there! Awesome! Amazing ...
Posted by Gabriele on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:23:00 PST

end of summer

so this is it, the end of summer..most people would even argue we HAD a summer in the Uk this year, but one thing is for sure, climate-wise it has been very freakin short!I personally wouldn't have ev...
Posted by Gabriele on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:40:00 PST

enough is enough!!

seriously.. what is wrong with british summer this year?!?!?!? I never thought I could get to such a level of depression due to bad weather.. but it is nearly August and we have probably had only a co...
Posted by Gabriele on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:39:00 PST

AIR TRAFFIC

hey allits been a while since my last blog so I thought Id update it with some news, if for any reason anyone cares to know..I thought nothing could have been as interesting and fascinating as my RTW ...
Posted by Gabriele on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:00:00 PST

BRASIL (late)!

hey hey hey!some of you might know I am already back home... nevertheless... here is my  long-awaited (!!!) Brasilian report!! I am actually impressed how much stuff I managed to see and do in su...
Posted by Gabriele on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:44:00 PST

ARGENTINA!!

hey hey!! sorry it took me a while, but here I am finally with my detailed report from Argentina.. what a great time I had.. FEB 8 - arrived in Buenos Aires and went to meet up with Damian, my long-...
Posted by Gabriele on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:05:00 PST

insomniac..

heya!I am now in Argentina, Buenos Aires to be precise..having a great time, my arrival here has been quite emotional as I finally got to see my half brother who I hadn't seen in more than 10 years.. ...
Posted by Gabriele on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:36:00 PST

CHILE

hola! the last continent Im touching in this mad round the world adventure is South America.. and here I am in Chile! FEB 2 - due to the weirdness of crossing the DATE CHANGE line east-ward, I ac...
Posted by Gabriele on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:16:00 PST

NEW ZEALAND WITH PICS!

hey hey here is my brief report on my VERY brief visit to Kiwi-land.. JAN 27 - I got to Auckland, and only stayed the night in a hostel to move on to lake Taupo on the following day... JAN ...
Posted by Gabriele on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:50:00 PST