“You could say my set-up has come a long way from an RC-30 and a milk crate!” laughs Tash Sultana. Having started out busking Melbourne, as well as playing in bands, the Australian multi-instrumentalist now transports a three-ton rig for live shows - taking the concept of a one-person band to its extremes. Even though this year has seen the singer-songwriter recruit additional live performers for parts of the set, Tash still very much operates from the mind-set of someone operating alone and making a wall of sound with no limit to texture...
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“I just did a massive upsize of my rig, though there’s actually less pedals now,” continues Tash, admitting there were up to 30 units on separate boards on previous tours. “When we’re playing empty venues, we supply everything like the sound system, the audio package and the lighting package... So it weighs a lot.