NOS Alive Music Festival Internship
Following Vilar de Mouros in 2025, Sound staff returned to Portugal for NOS Alive 2026, one of Europe’s major music festivals, working with Audiomatrix alongside colleagues from the Stage Department.
Training dates: 1 to 13 July 2026
Training overview
Sound staff spent almost two weeks with Audiomatrix on NOS Alive 2026 in Lisbon, while colleagues from the Stage Department joined the stage construction and rigging team. Work began at the Audiomatrix warehouse, preparing and testing the audio equipment before it went to site. During the festival the sound team set up and positioned microphones for each act, particularly drums and percussion, ran cables to the stage boxes and splitters, checked the signal path to the front of house and monitor consoles, and helped turn the stage around between artists.
- Preparing, testing and organising audio equipment at the Audiomatrix warehouse
- Preparing and positioning microphones for a wide range of instruments, especially drums and percussion
- Stage cabling, splitters and stage boxes, and routing signal between FOH and the monitor console
- Checking signal flow through the full audio chain for FOH and monitor engineers
- Rapid stage turnovers between artists under tight time constraints
Training milestones
- Festival audio systems prepared and deployed
- Instrument microphone set-ups delivered for changeovers
- Live shows supported alongside an international production crew
Next steps
Following the success of the internship, we hope to continue giving technical department staff the chance to work and train abroad at international festivals during the next summer break.
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