Urban Audio Productions built the fibre and analogue network for Oasis's 2025 stadium return around Van Damme cabling, with custom assemblies manufactured by VDC Trading to meet the production's specific requirements.
When Oasis returned to stages in 2025, the production team at Urban Audio Productions was responsible for keeping front-of-house, monitor world and multiple off-stage technical areas reliably connected – and they built the network around Van Damme cabling to do it.
Given the distances involved in a stadium setup, fibre formed the backbone of the system. Once the production settled on DiGiCo consoles in monitor world tied into an Optocore router, Urban Audio Director Dan Lewis specified a new fibre infrastructure using HMA Junior Quad connectors. “We specified HMA Junior Quad connectors so we could use the additional fibre pair to carry other network protocols while still maintaining compatibility with the Duo-based Optocore network,” Lewis explains.
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The custom fibre assemblies were manufactured by VDC Trading to Urban Audio’s specifications and delivered within the production’s build schedule. One of the bespoke details was right-angled HMA connectors designed specifically for the console engine links on the DiGiCo Quantum 852 systems. It’s a small thing on paper, but as Lewis notes, “having right-angled connectors on the console engine links makes a real difference when you’re working in the back of a busy console dogbox. It’s those little quality-of-life improvements that touring engineers really appreciate.”
Alongside the fibre infrastructure, the production used around 500 metres of Van Damme Black Series 12-pair analogue multicore cable, purchased from VDC and terminated by Urban Audio’s in-house wire shop. It formed part of a custom-built 128-channel split and line system used across the stage. “It’s compact, robust and easy to work with,” says Lewis of the Black Series cable. “That kind of reliability is exactly what you need when you’re building systems for major touring productions.”
Last-minute changes, inevitable on any large-scale tour, were handled with the help of VDC’s stock levels. “Their stock levels on connectors and components mean you can usually get what you need quickly when the inevitable last-minute requests come in,” Lewis adds.
Cameron Clark, Business Development Manager at VDC Trading, said the company was proud to support a production of this scale: “With fibre playing such a central role in touring infrastructure, we’re really proud that Van Damme cabling helped support a production as big and iconic as Oasis Live ’25.”
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