City And Moon Backline

17/07/2026

07/01/2026

We’re looking forward to 2026, but a quick look back at the blur that was 2025 is definitely worthwhile.
There were many highlights this past year, but notably it’s always great to see an empty loading bay and a fully loaded truck leaving the yard, I don’t think we’ll ever tire of that feeling.
2025 saw us fulfil hundreds of hires and help many shows get out on the road, we walked a long list of festival stages, completed many hours of advancing, built hundreds of risers, loaded in and out of countless venues and donned the black tie to work in the corp events sector in a varied selection of weird and wonderful spaces.
It’s been a really productive and enjoyable year, and the work has been both challenging and rewarding. I’d like to make a few notable mentions -

Largest hire of the year -
Boomtown Fair, 12 live stages of full house generics plus fulfilling all artist specific requirements across every stage. All on site tech support and transport. No small undertaking.

Smallest hire of the year -
Electronic music duo Mitú at the Jam Jar in Bristol, 2x single tier keyboard stands. We still made sure they were polished though.

Most hired out piece of equipment -
DW Collectors Series Pure Maple drum kit. The pure workhorse, and it’s about to go out on our first tour of the year on the 12th Jan.

Least hired out piece of equipment -
Roland SPDSX Pro, does nobody want to move on from the excellent old model? 3 Hires all year.

Quick update from the warehouse - Our team has grown in the warehouse, there’s no longer any excuse for an unanswered call or email.
To meet demand we’ve added a lot of new pieces to the hire stock and shored up the shortfall in certain areas like the high end percussion, acoustic panels and orchestral accessories. So we now stock a huge amount of high quality music stands, LED lights, orchestral chairs and Clearsonic acoustic panels.
We’re now carrying more stock than you can shake a Vic Firth 5B at.

Thanks again for 2025 and here’s to everyone having a full and manageable calendar in 2026 👍

12/04/2025

and all Delivered this morning. Should be a cracking day 💥

10/04/2025

A very active prep zone today ahead of a bunch of shows going out this weekend in Bristol.

at , festival in Old Market across various venues and at

Good to be busy! 🌞

08/04/2025

Setting up Elides Ochoa alongside at this evening.

Tonehammer 700 + DB410, Giovannia Congas and Bongos, Guiro and Hand Percussion Selection + LP hardware, K Custom Cymbals and various

29/03/2025

Another solid chunk of Backline out today for for another year in a row today alongside . Supplying downstairs main and upstairs second stage. Also a couple bits over at and

28/03/2025

🌞 The sun is out and we have a couple Backline packages going out for this weekend in Gloucester. To kit out and respectively.🌞

To include:
DW Collectors Kit in Champagne Sparkle, DW9000 Hardware, Tama Starclassic in Bubinga Ply finish, Tama Roadpro Hardware, Two Ampeg SVT Classics with SVT810E & SVT410HLF cabinets. Also two Marshall M412B 4x12 Cabinets.

23/01/2025

Happy to be supplying a full backline package for Femi Kuti at Bristol Beacon tonight.
The gear list consists of -
DW Collectors Series drums and 9000 Series matching hardware.
Zildjian K Custom cymbal package.
LP Galaxy Giovanni Congas and additional percussion pieces.
Aguilar DB751 and matching Aguilar 410 bass stack
Fender Hot Rod Deville 410 (the loudest 410 combo in existence, I'm sure) x2
Keys rig is the ever popular Nord Stage 2 alongside a Yamaha Motif XF7 and Roland RD300NX
Plus all necessary Quik-Lok and Hercules stands and Van Damme cabling.

Doors are at 19:30

Band on the Wall is thrilled to present the afrobeat icon Femi Kuti. Renowned for his relentless energy and powerful, vibrant performances, Femi continues to captivate audiences worldwide with his thought-provoking messages and exhilarating shows.

21/01/2025

Epiphone Dobro, fitted with Fishman pickup can be "picked up" from our Reverb page 😉

Epiphone Dobro Hound Dog Deluxe Round Neck with Fishman Resonator Pickup.Literally brand new, has been played for 2 hours on a light hire. Call it B-Stock, Packaging disposed of but comes with everything that was included in the case.Bought to hire out but has sat on it's stand since, still setup...

20/01/2025

We sometimes get asked to supply our stock list, but I've always refrained for a few reasons, main one being that it changes regularly. We're always adding new stock and moving on from certain unused pieces that look like they aren't going to end up in that "vintage" category. Here's a snapshot of some of the hire stock from the last couple of years.
We stock a lot of backline from a lot of your industry trusted brands, got a tour coming up? Please get in touch for a quote.