Hi, I am new here and looking for some advice and pointers. Looking at buying some equipment.

Budget - £1500 to £2000 (max)
Use - Camera to be used mainly for short clip type interviews and general filming in loud, dark band / event environment, but also in day time etc. Probably no more than a couple of hours recording at a time etc.

Must be able to take some form of mic input (poss XLR) but the better quality then great as going to be used for interviews etc

Am looking for pref to be able to possibly record to HD or Mem stick (as big as mem stick as possible)

Any help or advice is much appreciated on what to get, with some cams.. is it possible to record straight to SD cards such as 8gb ones and then take the video from that?

Am happy to answer any q's you throw at me...

Regards
B