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Powerful sounds

Live events can have a dark side to the good times, particularly when it comes to environmental impact such as carbon emissions or waste. It doesn’t have to be that way, though, with a new generation of batteries bolstering power supplies and increasingly flicking the switch on diesel gensets.

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Jonathan Gifford

01 Apr 2025

Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, played an outdoor event on the off-grid Bug in late 2024. | Photo: The Bug Club

The first weekend of January is hardly the prime candidate for heady celebration in the northern hemisphere. With the festive season fading in the rearview mirror, January is generally a time for quiet reflection, rest, and recovery but at Brighton & Hove Albion football club, in England, the raucous sounds coming from a little VW …

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