Ashington to Aberdeen.

Newcastle Fifteen miles up the road in Ashington, so we know which loading bay works and who to ring. We can look at a room before the day without it costing you anything. London The O2, OVO Arena Wembley and ExCeL among them. Load-in windows are short and often overnight, and the door-to-room distance can beat the cable run inside. Manchester AO Arena is a controlled room with power and a dock. Barton Aerodrome is an open site with nothing on it. Two different plans, one standard. Birmingham The NEC is a series of venues rather than one. Multiple halls, long runs, and a build that starts days before anyone presents. Leeds First Direct Arena is straightforward. The Armouries and the civic buildings are older spaces where the cable route matters more than the camera list. Liverpool M&S Bank Arena and the ACC conference centre share a site, so a plenary and breakouts can run from one production rather than two suppliers. Sheffield Utilita Arena, the city hall, and two universities full of lecture theatres and graduation halls. Which is why we quote the room, not the city. Nottingham Motorpoint Arena sits in the middle of the city. Dock slots are timed and the streets are busy, so the access plan matters as much as the cameras. Glasgow The OVO Hydro, the Armadillo and the exhibition halls are three different production problems within a few hundred metres. Cardiff Welsh alongside English changes the graphics build and the caption lead time, not just the wording. Worth settling at the planning stage. Milton Keynes Four consecutive years of Reggae Land, plus Chase & Status, Bludfest and Tribes Unite. The venue we have worked most.

Eleven pages is where the work concentrates, not the limit of it. We have covered events from Cornwall to Aberdeen, and a venue we have not been to before is a site visit and an advance rather than an obstacle.

What travels with us regardless of the postcode: crewed cameras with a director cutting live, broadcast audio taken from your desk, a programme record of the show, and our own bonded 4G, 5G and Starlink so a venue with no usable line is a planning detail rather than a blocker.

Insurance certificates and RAMS go out with the quote rather than on request, which is what most venues want before they let a crew through the door.