The Big Feastival, the family-friendly food and music festival held annually on the Oxfordshire farm of Blur’s Alex James, this year celebrated its 15th anniversary. The 2026 event featured headliners including Basement Jaxx, The Streets and Bastille, with the main stage once again powered by Martin Audio and an upgraded Wavefront Precision system solution supplied by SWG Events.
The main stage system comprised 12-per-side main hangs of Martin Audio WPL Wavefront Precision Large format arrays, together with 12-per-side hangs of WPC Wavefront Precision Compact arrays as outfills, and a cardioid broadside sub configuration comprising 14 Martin Audio SXH218 subwoofers. Twelve WPS Wavefront Precision Sub-compact line array elements were deployed as front fills.
The delay system itself comprised two hangs of eight WPC array elements, each supplemented with a cardioid stack of three SXH218 subwoofers.
Martin Audio’s DISPLAY 3 prediction software allowed the team to model the venue long before arriving on site.
Martin Audio solutions were also deployed on stage, with a monitor package comprising XE500 wedges and a sidefill system of SXC118 subwoofers and TORUS T1230 constant curvature arrays.
Martin Audio solutions could also be found elsewhere on site, with Martin Audio Blackline cabinets on the Features/Fringe stages and Stage 2 (The Outpost) comprising a ground stack deployment of WPM, SXH218 and SXC115, with the support of trusted partner and supplier, Magnum PA.
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