Can you tell us a little bit about your history in the industry? It started with games, not with music. As a 17-year-old gamer I traded server management for free internet with a telecom provider, and that led – via a game I built for the legendary Antwerp club Zillion – straight into nightlife. I had never set foot in a club before that. I became a VJ, first at the Versuz nightclub, and in 2005 I founded Prismax and toured the world doing visuals for DJs. Somewhere along the way I met Ruben Gorissen, our CTO and my business…
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Catching up with TT+ Audio’s Andy Magee, the Business Development Manager reflects on the summer so far, with the GTX 7C line array in action at the BBC Proms performances at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music in Gateshead. Can you tell us a little bit about the shows this summer at The Glasshouse in Gateshead? “This summer, The Glasshouse is undertaking the most significant programme of capital improvements to Sage One since the building opened in 2004. With the main hall temporarily out of action, it was decided to build a new performance space on the buildings concourse with…
Music Venue Trust (MVT) has strengthened its senior leadership team as the charity enters its next phase of growth, completing a multi-year programme to build a resilient management structure that will support its long-term sustainability and ensure it continues to protect, champion and invest in the UK’s grassroots music venue (GMV) network. The appointments reflect the scale and ambition of an organisation whose influence has grown significantly in recent years. With its work expanding across advocacy, investment, funding, policy, partnerships and member services, Music Venue Trust has established a broader leadership team to ensure the expertise, governance and succession planning…
The 2025–2026 Schools Engagement Programme report reveals almost 500 school engagements, support from more than 300 industry ambassadors, and significant nationwide growth. The Power of Events has published its 2025–2026 Schools Engagement Programme End of Year Report, marking another milestone in its mission to inspire future event professionals. The report highlights a year of continued growth, strengthened industry collaboration and expanding opportunities for young people to discover careers across the UK events industry. During the academic year, the programme engaged more than 143,000 young people through activities delivered in schools across the UK. It now partners with more than 240…
The Production Services Association (PSA) has announced a new partnership with onboard:earth, aimed at helping the UK live events supply chain reduce the environmental impact of travel, often the single largest contributor to an event’s overall carbon footprint. The partnership will give PSA members access to practical tools, resources, and guidance to reduce travel emissions and streamline carbon data collection across productions. Members will also be able to confidently offset unavoidable travel impacts through onboard:earth’s Trees+ programme, which restores threatened ecosystems, preserves biodiversity, and upholds climate justice by supporting communities on the frontline of climate breakdown. Since 2015, onboard:earth has…
Under the Big Sky Festival draws more than 20,000 fans each summer to Big Mountain Ranch outside Whitefish, Montana, where this 2026’s lineup featured dozens of top country and americana artists across two outdoor stages. Built each year on a working ranch rather than a permanent concert venue, the festival requires production teams to deliver concert-level sound while remaining mindful of nearby residents and local noise requirements. To support performances on the Big Mountain Stage, Show Imaging deployed a JBL Professional VTX system centred on the new VTX B35 cardioid subwoofer, one of the first major festival deployments of the…
Neg Earth Lights attended the annual Backup Tech Village Fete at its new home in Daventry. The event gave us the opportunity to support an incredible cause by raising funds for those in need across the industry, while also catching up and networking with partners and brands from across the industry. Backup Tech provides financial support to technical professionals, crew & production personnel, and people working throughout the technical supply chain in the UK entertainment industry. As proud Platinum Partners of the charity, Neg Earth Lights were delighted to attend and naturally turned up in their finest florals. To add…
MILOS MR2K 12 x 10mtr roof system, owned and supplied by Light Design and fully integrated with a LAYHER stage, provided the centrepiece of Replika Festival, where organisers officially secured a new Guinness World Records title for the most tribute acts to perform at a music festival ever. Held from 25–28 June at the picturesque Catton Park, Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, Replika Festival brought together one hundred and eight tribute performers across four stages for three days of non-stop live entertainment. The landmark achievement cemented the festival’s place in music history while demonstrating the scale and ambition of Europe’s largest tribute music festival. At the…
Analog Way has announced the addition to its team of Andy Towers as Western Regional Sales Manager. Towers is a recognized videowall and processing expert with more than 15 years of business development and global sales strategies experience. He assumes the role at Analog Way from the retiring Joe Rivas. Towers joins the company with vast experience in image processing and direct view LED technology, further bolstering Analog Way’s expertise in the market. Prior to coming on board, he spent three years as Sales – Senior Applications Specialist at Christie Digital Systems. Earlier, Towers served in Western Regional Sales management…
Spanish pop band La Oreja de Van Gogh is using 67 Claypaky HY B-EYE K25 as one of the key creative tools in their new tour’s lighting design. Formed in 1996, the band has become one of the best-selling and most beloved acts in both Spain and Latin America. The new tour marks the highly anticipated return of the band’s original singer, Amaia Montero, making it one of the biggest live music events in Spain this year. Public expectation has been extraordinary with more than 100,000 tickets sold within the first hour of sales for the arena tour. From a…
Audio Feed supplied eight stages of Funktion-One sound for the latest edition of Gottwood Festival. Described as a mystical party hidden in the woods, the four-day event brings together a programme of house, techno, minimal and disco with a close-knit crowd and a charming location. For the Bournemouth-based audio specialist, led by Oz Jefferies, Gottwood has become a long-running and technically demanding project. Audio Feed first supplied the festival’s Funktion-One systems in 2019 and has returned every year since, developing a close working relationship with the organising team. “It’s been a journey for sure,” said Jefferies. “They’re a fantastic client and…
Deep in the woods of the Double JJ Resort, more than 40,000 people spent four days under the glow of Sherwood Court, the stage that has become Electric Forest’s visual signature. Every set played out across a scenic canvas more than 7,000 pixels wide — lighting, lasers and video fused into a single environment, all driven by Hippotizer Media Servers from Green Hippo, an ACT Entertainment brand. Behind that canvas stands content and creative studio Observatory, which has spent the past five years building Sherwood Court’s distinctive identity, for Leisure Expert Group and Insomniac Events. In doing so, they’ve been…
Shure is celebrating 25 years of having an office in Nashville and expanding into the newly built Rock Nashville facility, a 600,000-square-foot production campus — the largest purpose-built music campus in the world with 13 rehearsal studios and two arena rehearsal studios. Even beyond the 25 years of having an office in Nashville, Shure has been supporting the area for decades. Whether it was supporting local independent music venues, or helping artists impacted by the floods in 2010, or supporting music creativity at home through the pandemic, Shure has been here supporting the resilient Nashville community. Several Nashville performers, audio…
Blackmagic Design has announced the new UltraStudio Mini 12G family of Thunderbolt capture and playback products. There are 3 models in the family and they are designed for extremely high quality broadcast use. The UltraStudio Mini Monitor 12G model plays back to 12G-SDI and HDMI. The UltraStudio Mini Recorder 12G model captures from 12G-SDI and HDMI. While the UltraStudio Mini Replay 12G model supports both 12G-SDI capture and playback, but also includes independent 12G-SDI fill and key outputs as well as a dedicated 12G-SDI monitoring output. The replay model supports the live action replay features in DaVinci Resolve 20. All…
Unusual Rigging has delivered a complex rigging solution for Les Misérables: The Arena Concert Spectacular at the Royal Albert Hall, adapting the iconic production to work seamlessly within the venue’s existing house rig while maintaining the integrity of the original show design. Having supported the original Les Misérables world tour previously, Unusual Rigging has remained closely involved with the production, bringing extensive knowledge of the show’s technical requirements to this latest iteration. The project was shaped by a number of logistical and structural constraints, with the show required to be rigged around the Hall’s standard house infrastructure due to scheduling…
With the European summer festival season in full swing, Konligo has announced the closing of a €1.1 million investment round, with MTN joining as a strategic partner. The investment will finance the next stage of Konligo’s rapid-deployment technology that has already demonstrated that a premium stage roof can be set up in thirty minutes, and a premium tent in five. Behind every festival sits a logistics operation the public rarely sees: stages, roofs, and tents assembled days in advance using heavy, slow equipment. Since 2018, Konligo has been building an alternative, with foldable structures that turn arbitrary shapes into professional,…
Jazz in all its various forms performed on several stages at the Blohm+Voss shipyard attracts thousands of visitors from the city and beyond to the German port of Hamburg each July for ELBJAZZ, which, in 2026, featured headliners Snarky Puppy, Tom Jones, Jamie Cullum and Greentea Peng. In 2026, sound for the festival’s Hamburg Stage was overseen by full-service event technology provider Sound Linear from Paderborn, with an all-NEXO sound system deployed for FOH and stage. “Basically, this is an industrial site with large buildings around us, some of them with challenging surfaces,” reported Sound Linear PA Systems Engineer Philipp…
Backup Tech, the technical industries charity, is looking for a Pastoral Care and Grants Support Officer. The role attracts a salary of £34,000 full-time equivalent, pro rata. Based on 2 days per week, the gross annual salary will be £13,600. Working location is flexible and successful applicants could choose from remote, hybrid or flexible working patterns. The purpose of the role is to provide sensitive, organised and practical support across Backup Tech’s grant application, triage and beneficiary care process. Acting as an initial point of contact for grant applicants, the post-holder would help to acknowledge applications, gather information, complete initial…
