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Scotland’s Best Kept Secret

Formed in 2008 FE Live are a leading audio supplier for both UK wide events and global touring artists.

Renowned for our attention to detail in every aspect of live sound reinforcement. Whether its designing a sound system to accurately reproduce your event to every seat in the house or designing innovative equipment packaging to help improve the efficiency of our worldwide tours.

The key to achieving this revolves not only around maintaining the most advanced rental stock in Scotland; but our constant desire to develop and expand our talented in house team of audio professionals to ensure we deliver to the highest possible standard time and time again.

Every time I come to Scotland FE Live are my go to for all things audio.  Not only for the great quality kit but particularly the service and support on offer is second to none no matter how many strange requests or ideas I throw at them!
Scott Humphries, FOH Engineer - Bears Den

Our Story

  • Frontier Enterprises

    Founded in 2008 by Ryan McIlravey and Andrew McMillan, with a passion for delivering Audio for live events and a vision to gather a team of like-minded individuals to make a difference.  The pair were just 17 when they incorporated FE Live Audio Ltd, fresh from a school enterprise project that would go on to become so much more…

  • Award winning – Prince's Trust

    2011 saw the company win multiple business accolades, including ‘best new business’ and ‘most promising business’, awarded by the Prince’s Trust for Scotland.  The company used the achievements as a platform for growth, and in 2011 provided their first full concert PA system for the famous Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom to a sell out crowd of 2000.

     

  • Home of Live Sound

    2014 to 2017; FE Live becomes the fastest growing PA company in Scotland, with multiple worldwide acts now under their belt – Travis, The Libertines, Chvrches, KT Tunstall, Muse, Brand New, Clean Bandit, James Bay & Status Quo have all played through FE’s d&b concert touring rig to great acclaim.

    Adding more strings to their bow, FE Live win contracts for a number of local authority and major sporting events, including supplying for the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 2015 World Gymnastics Championships at the SSE Hydro.

  • International Touring Acclaim

    2015: FE Live go international, picking up Touring Acts such as Twin Atlantic, Frightened Rabbit, Jack Savoretti and Maximo Park.

    FE supplied tour support to all corners of the Globe, from Australia and New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, to the US & Canada; while continuing to support touring acts closer to home, throughout the UK and Europe.

     

  • SFL and the new frontier…

    Creating an exciting partnership that will increase hire stock and use FE Live’s wealth of experience in the live arena as a base for sales support in Scotland.  FE Live welcome on Neil Osborne as Sales Team leader, while system engineer and long-term friend of the company Andrew Baillie joins the team as Technical Director.

  • d&b Sales Partners

    As part of SFL Group, together we have been a long term user and installer of d&b for over 20 years, as a group we are proud to have been appointed to represent d&b audiotechnik as official UK sales partner.

    To mark the occasion we launched a brand new website, specifically focussed on d&b.