NM Live

PASSION. QUALITY. KNOWLEDGE

PASSION

From the very beginning when Chris Kennedy entered the world of sound and lighting 34 years ago his one aim was not to be the biggest, but the best. This has driven Norwest Productions, and now NM Live, along a path of excellence.

QUALITY

All the inventory of NM Live is the best of the best from marquee brands such as L'Acoustics, Yamaha, Shure, Martin Lighting, ETC, Clearcom and more. A rigorous maintenance and testing regime ensures that every item of equipment delivered to your job is ready to perform flawlessly.

KNOWLEDGE

For over forty years Chris Kennedy has been working in the entertainment industry, firstly as an entertainment agent then, from 1987, in professional audio and lighting.

In 1993 he founded Norwest Productions (now N W Group) as a specialist audio provider.

Today it is a full service audio visual company with offices in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide (Australia), Auckland and Wellington (New Zealand). Employing over 100 people, it provides production services for corporate events, musical theatre, television, concerts, festivals and special events.

It is best known internationally as the provider of the audio solutions for five of the six Olympic opening and closing ceremonies this millennium, from Sydney 2000 to the recently completed Tokyo 2020 (staged in 2021 due to Covid). N W Group has done over forty major world events including multiple Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, Pacific Games, S E Asian Games and more.

In 2014 Chris Kennedy took a step back from day to day activities of the company. He remains the largest shareholder who is a human being (behind PE fund, The Growth Fund) and is a non-executive director. However, he continued to be active working on special projects such as Rio 2016 and the bids for Commonwealth Games 2018, and Tokyo 2020..

In 2016 he returned to executive duties at NW Group and founded a very successful marine AV division servicing the cruise ship industry. In early 2020 this business was transferred to Norwest Marine AV Pty Ltd which is wholly owned by Chris Kennedy and his family. The vast majority of his time is devoted to this business.

NM Live, a provider of high level sound/lighting/vision  based in Sydney and F8 Broadcast & Recording, which provides mobile broadcast audio and recording services to the television industry in Australia and Asia are divisions of Norwest Marine.