Taking production from conversation to reality

Sound | lighting | video | Production management

live events | festivals | corporate | creative

City Sound and Lighting is a production company, working across a vast range of different types of events and services, offering a personal touch alongside high levels of expertise and professionalism.

From large festival style events to specialist installations, corporate conferences to high end private gatherings, multi-site and multi-venue conferences to a wedding in a marquee. City Sound and Lighting offers a blend of technical experience and creative solutions alongside accessible and professional customer service to meet all your production needs.

We provide equipment for sound, lighting, staging, AudioVisuals and EVERYTHING in between. Alongside this we’ve surrounded ourselves with highly skilled and experienced technicians, engineers, riggers, designers and production managers. So no job is too big or too small, it all begins with a conversation...

We work closely alongside an array of the most renowned production companies in the UK and abroad; our relationships with these companies ensures that we continue to provide the best prices for our clients across the board. Most of the inter company relationships have been built over the years of service our founder Steve has put into his freelance career. These relationships have become strong and reliable and City Sound and Lighting is grateful for its production patterns across the industry.

Our aim is to make production problems into realistic solutions both in terms of communicating what is actually needed to solve our clients problems (no matter how tricky) AS WELL AS real time, on the ground problem solving by our excellent production managers, engineers and technicians to ensure that all our events run smoothly from load in to load out.

Becky Tompkins - Event Manager at FIEC

Our events team at FIEC really enjoy working with City Sound and Lighting, they provide an excellent tailored service for our events. Their professional and creative knowledge is so valuable in making these events run smoothly.

Adam Ellis - Director at RASE Productions

We have been working with Steve since before RASE and CSL were even a thing, and we keep coming back! The CSL team are reliable, knowledgeable and efficient. Steve especially comes with a keen eye for detail and high standards - ensuring every event is fulfilled to the highest quality possible. We always love working with Steve (and the team) and continue to recommend his services to anyone in need. RASE and CSL have a wonderful working partnership, regularly making the most of each company's specialised skill sets throughout corporate conferencing, festival style events and permanent installation.

Frank Edward - Deacon at All Saints' Church, Boughton Aluph

Steve was a delight to work with: hugely knowledgeable and very patient with clients less familiar with the most modern sound technology.  Nothing was too much trouble, and the finished PA system (for a large church) was technically impressive - meeting not only our (and the Stour Music Festival's) requirements for sound, but also those of the Diocese for aesthetics in a Grade 1-listed, 800 year old building.  Recommended 100%.