Radio City

Venue: Radio City
Location: Valencia, Spain
Venue-type: Multi-purpose
Loudspeaker system:
4 x TCS-40
4 x TCS-59

Valencia's Radio City has gained a reputation over more than 20 years for offering the public alternative forms of entertainment, widening the choice beyond the usual selection of bars and music venues.

It has gradually expanded its scope to incorporate new cultural and artistic strands, with an extensive spread of events and activities encompassing festivals, dance and drama performances, music and poetry recitals, workshops, recordings and DJ nights. Radio City's most recent initiative is its Café-Theatre project, which necessitated the installation of a completely new sound system, configured to address the venue's multi-disciplinary requirements.

The resurgence in Valencia of this type of theatre owes much to the initiative of a group of leisure establishments, which showcase amateur and semi-professional theatre companies, and have created the city's Café-Theatre circuit. Radio City is a prime mover on this circuit, and also hosts the annual National Festival of Small Theatre. Café-Theatre presentations are usually staged in small, intimate settings, close to audience, and involve short dramas performed by two or three actors.

Supplied by Lexon via a local contractor, Solutions in Image and Sound S.L (Audiotrack), the new sound system had to be capable of handling Radio City's wide spread of events and activities, in addition to the Café-Theatre performances themselves. A total of eight TCS enclosures were installed - four TCS-40 and four TCS-59 - with the TCS-59 being specified for its ability to present music and vocal material with equal clarity. Lexon also finds the TCS-40 an ideal choice for theatre applications.