Sheer 104 - Danny Kitainik (Serenity Audio)

Sheer Isolation

Our guest on this week's Sheer Isolation is a sound and electronics engineer who's travelled the world over four decades designing, operating and repairing some seriously large and expensive sound desks and speakers!

These days, Danny Kitainik is the man behind a modest little production company in Wiltshire, Serenity Audio.

But Danny was behind many of the sound systems installed in London's iconic nightclubs during the eighties, toured with the likes of Simple Minds, K D Lang and Toto, has set up systems for TED talks and World Cup VAR reviews, and was cited as saving the day when things went wrong before an iconic Happy Mondays gig.

This interview hardly scrapes the surface of Danny's story, but we cover key events from the time he was given first soldering iron, to the heyday of working with some of the world's biggest artists, to supporting his family with their own musical and art endeavours.

We also give a shout out to a couple of previous guests of Sheer Isolation... Seth Bye was playing as part of the Giffords Circus travelling band when we spoke to him. He's just performed at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony with Birmingham twelve-piece, The Destroyers.

Also, congrats to Florence Espuit-Nickless. We spoke to her soon after her first performances of the semi-autobiographical play about growing up in small Wiltshire towns. She's taken Destiny to this year's Edinburgh Fringe!

In our music choices this week, Danny picks a track from Amie K, and we also play an upbeat instrumental piece by The Destroyers.