About Us
The People at Astralsound
Nikhil (‘Niks’) Zedan started working for Astralsound in April 2014, and managed our production on the Painswick Centre stage at Art Couture Painswick in July that year. A keen and able multi-instrument musician (his proficiencies include lapslide guitar, sitar, and didjeridu), he played his first gig at the age of eleven. He has been involved in event production ever since then, and is an experienced and very capable sound-engineer, with particular aptitude for World Music.
With his considerable recording experience at Ragged Moon, Niks has an active interest in the development of our recording business. Constantly involved in a wide variety of musical projects, he also likes to keep up with technology and other developments in the music industry: he has attended the the d&b Audiotechnik Electroacoustics and Product Workshops, and is a member of the Music Managers Forum.
Tony Lloyd founded Astralsound in 2001, and although Niks' succession marks his official retirement, he is still involved in occasional productions.
In a career in the music industry spanning almost fifty years, he has worked with and mixed a large number and wide variety of acts and performance styles.
Eoin Lloyd, Tony's son, is a recent addition to the team. A former Gloucester Cathedral chorister, Eoin brings a strong musical background to supplement his technical grounding in an evolving live-event industry.
We are also privileged to be able to draw on a pool of locally-based freelance technicians and sound-engineers.
This section of the website also includes
What some of our clients and contacts have said about us in recent years.
Any news about what we have been doing that isn't covered on our Facebook or Twitter pages.
A diary of public events we will be involved with over the next few months.
The various venues, festivals and other places we have worked (and, in many cases, still work).
The bands, performers and miscellaneous hirers we have engineered for or hired to in recent years.
Some photos* of us - and various performers - that some of our friends have taken and allowed us to use.
*Note that the photographs page may load slowly, particularly on low-bandwidth connections.