AudioAlongside our television work, for many years we have provided our services to recording sessions for BBC radio stations.
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BacklineOften, though not exclusively, based at the historic Maida Vale Studios complex, you will find our audio and backline packages and techs working on shows such as Radio 1’s Live Lounge, BBC Introducing, BBC Sound of… and other special one-off or multi-studio events for Radio 1, 2 and 6 Music.
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Production For the past five years we have also taken a major role in providing Production Services for the annual 500 Words final, for Radio 2. Each year, working closely with Radio 2 and BBC Outside Broadcast’s production teams, we have provided audio, backline, staging, lighting, technicians and logistics in a number of different venues, as the show has developed and grown.
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Jonathan Ross ShowWe have provided the Floor Sound, Monitors, Backline, Staging and technical support since the show’s inception on the BBC in 2001, when it was called “Friday Night with Jonathan Ross”. In 2011 the show relocated to ITV and moved to a Saturday night transmission slot.
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SkavlanSkavlan is a weekly Norwegian/Swedish chat show. Each year they come to London to shoot a number of shows with musical performances and use our services to provide audio, backline, staging and technicians for the show recordings.
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Floor SoundFrom its debut in October 1992 to the latest series, we have provided the floor sound, monitor systems, backline, technicians and logistical planning for this legendary, award-winning television programme.
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MonitoringHosted by pianist Jools Holland and a worldwide success, with a format of blending established acts with new arrivals, the show remains one of the few places on UK television where the emphasis has always been on live performance.
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BacklineNow filming back at TV Centre in London after several years at Maidstone Studios, the show has clocked up a record fifty four series.
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GlastonburyEach year the BBC contract us to provide an audio and backline package for their backstage acoustic performance area at the festival. As well as supplying backline and logistics for various performers on the main stages.
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AudioSince its relocation to Broadcasting House in 2014, we have been regularly involved in supplying audio equipment, backline, staging and technical support for the weekly artist appearances on this programme.
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BacklineThe performances, which can vary from solo artists to full orchestras, are largely filmed live-to-air in the piazza outside the show’s studio, with occasional, more intimate performances shot inside.
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StagingWe work closely with the production team and record labels to facilitate these performances
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Ronnie Wood Radio ShowMade by Somethin’ Else Productions and broadcast on Absolute Radio and broadcast on Sky TV, we provide the backline for this entertaining radio show.
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Global RadioEvery year we provide backline & DJ Equipment and technicians to the Capital Radio Summertime Ball and Jingle Bell Ball events. We also regularly supply backline for bands doing live sessions in the Global studio for Radio X & Capital and each summer provide an audio, backline and staging package, along with technicians for the company’s Sundowner sessions, held on their rooftop in Leicester Square.
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Floor SoundIn the eighties and nineties you would see our equipment on the show all the time, but in 2006 TOTP became an annual Christmas special, rather than a weekly music show. In 2008 a New Year special show was added.
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MonitoringNow, each December you will find us loading up trucks with audio, backline and staging to take to the studio for the shows’ filming.
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BacklineAs with Later… with Jools, we provide a full technical team to crew the monitor systems, backline and staging for the productions.
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The Graham Norton ShowWe are the primary backline contractors for this weekly chat show.
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The BritsEvery year you’ll find our backline, risers and technicians working at the UK Music Industry’s awards ceremony
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Still CrazySince our earliest days, John Henry’s have always supplied backline and audio for bands’ promo shoots. However, it was in 1998 when JHL first got seriously involved in the film industry. We were approached to supply period correct musical props, playback audio and technicians for the production of “Still Crazy”, a comedy about a 1970’s rock band, whose members decide to reform. The cast included Juliet Aubrey, Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea, Jimmy Nail, Bruce Robinson and Billy Connolly. The closing scene of the film is of the band’s triumphant comeback gig and featured a full “live” gig set- up provided by JHL (with Billy Connolly doubling up as backline tech and monitor engineer!).
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Bohemian RhapsodyOther smaller productions and dry hires for musical props followed down the years, but we fast forward to 2017, when we were asked to be involved in the making of “Bohemian Rhapsody”, once again supplying period equipment and playback audio, but on a much more detailed level, along with full technical support. Working closely with the production’s set dressing team, with photographs provided from the band’s archive and elsewhere, we helped research and source the majority of music and audio props that appeared in the film. A large number of these came from our existing inventory.
The first of many set ups was the recreation of the Queen’s legendary performance at Live Aid in 1985. Not only were we asked to provide all the items that you see on screen, but we also provided a working monitor system for the stage so that the actors could get the proper feel of a live show, as well as a discreetly hidden FOH PA system to relay the sound to the audience of extras. The film went on to win four Oscars in 2019! |
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YesterdayAs filming wrapped on Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018, we were asked if we could provide a similar package for a forthcoming film project for the Working Title Company, shooting that summer. The production, a (mostly) contemporary rom com about a musician with a script by Richard Curtis, became “Yesterday”, directed by Danny Boyle, starring Himesh Patel, Lily James and featuring a cameo performance by Ed Sheeran.
Once again, we provided various backline and audio packages, along with technicians for a number of key scenes, two of which included overnight shoots on the stage of Ed Sheeran’s touring show in Cardiff and London and a rooftop gig on the seafront at Gorleston-On-Sea in Norfolk, which broke the record for the highest number of extras on a film set in the UK. |
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Rocketman Following the completion of the Yesterday shoot, our services were called on to once again provide period correct backline & audio equipment for “Rocketman”, the Elton John biopic. Researching archive photos and footage of Elton and his band, we helped recreate key musical performances, such as his debut performance at the Los Angeles Troubadour Club and the legendary 1975 show in Dodger Stadium, as seen here
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Eurovision Song Contest: The story of Fire SagaYou will also see our backline and audio equipment in the recently released Will Ferrell comedy “Eurovision Song Contest: The story of Firestarter” on Netflix.
Working audio props included Sennheiser radio mics (as regularly used in the real Eurovision Song Contest). Among the backline items supplied – and making yet another film appearance, is one of our Yamaha CP80 pianos – the same one that graced the Live Aid stage in 1985 -and the recreation of Queen’s legendary performance in “Bohemian Rhapsody”: |
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