Backup Tech’s annual summertime day of fun and frivolity, this year renamed The Fabulous Village Fete in celebration of Adam Taylor, aka Adam Fabulous, DJ and long-time supporter of the event, will once again take place at Surrey’s Daytona Sandown Park on Thursday 10 July. With shooting brakes, feather boas, picnic blankets, cake creations and voluminous veg to the fore, the industry is invited to enjoy the event’s perennial favourites, including Best Dresses Fete’r, the hugely popular ‘Bake Off’ and ‘Veg Off’, The Straw Stage for live entertainment and workshops, ‘Peasant’ laser clay Shooting, the Food and Craft Fest stalls…
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Lightware has announced that it’s UK office has a new collaboration with Paragon Projection, a key player in AV rentals for live event production. This partnership will significantly enhance the UK market’s access to high-quality Lightware products, enabling event production companies to leverage advanced AV technology for seamless event execution. Through this partnership, Paragon will offer Lightware’s range of matrix switchers, extenders, and AV-over-IP systems for cross hire and rental services. Paragon’s available stock includes high-demand products such as the MX2 series, HDMI20-OPTJ solutions, and UBEX extenders. As the partnership progresses, Paragon plans to expand its inventory in response to…
Green Hippo’s Hippotizer Media Servers were the choice for a projection installation on the Epson stand at ISE 2025. The project rigged a 2.2-metre mirrored globe, onto which AI-generated bright, floral and kaleidoscopic content was projected via three 4K, 20,000 lumen Epson EB-PQ2220B Projectors. At the heart of the EcoSphere system were two Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2 Media Servers running as main and backup, supplied by Motion Mapping and Stage Sound Services (SSS). Motion Mapping brought their brand to the project, which was presented as part of Epson’s ‘See It, Feel It’ campaign. Motion Mapping worked alongside creative agency One Thousand…
To provide a scalable, and versatile lighting rig that could accommodate multiple types of venues throughout the summer leg of Foo Fighters’ “Everything or Nothing At All” Tour, Lighting Designer Dan Hadley implemented a rig featuring the Martin MAC One fixture. Foo Fighters embarked on the “Everything or Nothing At All” Tour in 2024 in support of their 11th studio album “But Here We Are.” Given that the tour stops spanned large indoor venues, outdoor festival stages, and stadiums, Hadley was tasked to create a lighting rig that could be implemented across a wide range of venue types and maintain…
Powersoft have announced a strategic partnership that will shape the future of live event production and beyond. Under the Cohesion name, Powersoft will become a key technological partner that provides amplification and processing platforms for live touring and events audio as well as installed sound systems worldwide. The collaboration between Powersoft and Cohesion serves as the foundation for new technology that will deliver performance, efficiency, and reliability for demanding and aspirational applications and will ensure greater flexibility and control for audio professionals around the world. Engineers from both companies have developed a new, customised amplification platform using Powersoft’s Unica technology…
As the youngest Senior Engineering Director of loudspeaker Development in Meyer Sound’s history, Katie Murphy Khulusi’s significant contributions to loudspeaker design and her dedication to elevating the next generation underscore her expanding influence in the live sound industry. Whether troubleshooting systems in the field, mentoring aspiring engineers, or leading teams to push the boundaries of product design, Murphy Khulusi exemplifies the qualities of a pioneering leader in engineering. Meyer Sound recently sat down with Murphy Khulusi to discuss her career journey, her collaborative approach to leadership, and her bold visions for loudspeaker design. What first sparked your interest in the…
Nashville staged its own concert – “Jack Daniel’s New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash” at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park to celebrate the new year rollover, featuring an impressive artist lineup and a lighting and production design created by Robert W. Peterson of Real World Lighting. Peterson added 86 Robe iFORTE LTX moving lights to his lighting plot, together with 46 iFORTES, 38 iSpiider LED wash beams, 20 Robe Tarrantula large LED wash beams and 20 LEDBeam 350s, all supplied by Solotech, project managed for them by Austin Schussler and Steven Morgan with Joseph Logsdon providing excellent account oversight…
The preparations for the Showlight Quadrennial in Dijon in May are gathering speed with the programme of speakers almost complete and logistics rapidly falling into place. Key to the spirit of Showlight is the support received from Sponsors and Exhibitors without whose valuable contributions Showlight, as an entirely voluntary organisation, could not take place. Welcoming no less than 22 Sponsors and 30 Exhibitors to Showlight 2025, with more still to come, bringing their products and their presence to enrich the event over the three exciting days. The Exhibitor Hall is the centre of the networking space, where all delegates and…
Four hundred exhibitors from ten nations came to the Ruhr region, and 87,000 visitors in the Catalonian capital underlined the leading role of the “ISE” for the AV industry. Upon his return from Spain, Neumann & Müller director Torsten Jacobs summed up his visit as follows: “The products and solutions on display were an impressive reminder of our industry’s innovative capability and its economic stability along the whole value chain.” Hybrid moving lights, brand new developments in lighting such as the Astera Quickspot and interesting detailed solutions in the field of LEDs for customising media presentations are coming together to…
Music Matters Productions has announced the addition of the d&b audiotechnik GSL series audio rig to its inventory. This investment strengthens MMP’s ability to meet the demands of large-scale events, festivals, and touring productions with powerful, precise sound that exceeds industry standards. The addition of the GSL audio rig brings immediate value to MMP’s clients by enhancing production capabilities for large-scale events and tours: More Festival Power: The GSL’s ability to project consistent, high-quality sound over long distances makes it ideal for multi-stage festival settings. With this addition, MMP can now service more large-scale venues simultaneously. Tour-Ready Inventory: A top…
Mark Clements has been touring with Level 42 for over 23 years, for the last 16, he has been using DiGiCo consoles provided by Neal Allen, CEO of Merlin PA Hire. For the band’s 2024 touring dates Allen joined the tour mixing monitors, with Clements at the FOH position. The year began with the pair using a Quantum 225 at FOH and an SD10-24 for monitors. Towards the end of the year, they swapped to a Quantum 338 at FOH, and a Quantum 326 at monitors for the London O2 indigo shows. 2025 will see the Quantum 338 changing to…
$UICIDEBOY$ completed their GREYDAY2024 US and Canadian tour with a production design created by Ian MacDonald, who used Robe moving lights to help deliver a raw, in-the-face, lighting aesthetic. MacDonald is based in Ottawa, Canada, and has worked with the band since 2021. This latest tour design featured 42 Robe iFORTE LTXs, 34 Spiiders and four iFORTE Follow Spots, all supplied by Fuse, who purchased the iFORTES for this project, which was co-ordinated for them by account managers Matt Kirkpatrick and Kevin Foreste. It was the first time MacDonald used Robe’s super-bright iFORTE luminaire, although he was well impressed when…
Mike Castle has been working his magic for Hippo Campus on the band’s 40-date North American FLOOD tour, which kicked off in Nashville, and concludes in Vancouver. Embracing the five-piece band with multi-levels of light from myriad directions, he is creating a deeply textured labyrinth that provides a fertile space to support their performance. Shifting light angles, he changes the entire mood on stage, adding new dimensions, and then seamlessly taking them away with ease. Given the nature of Castle’s space-shaping design, his rig is dominated by vertically oriented battens or more specifically in this case by 24 CHAUVET Professional…
The new REM MIRA series of high-performance video wall solutions were engineered to be valued “collaborators,” the wall hugging LED system frees up human creativity by making every step in the video wall design process easier, from hanging the panels, which feature universal magnetic LED modules, to mapping and scaling video with a user-friendly COEX Visual Management System interface. Available in two-pixel pitches (1.9mm and 3.9mm), the REM MIRA pairs beautifully with CHAUVET Professional’s other REM Models, allowing it to be combined easily with any venue’s fixed screens when used as a rental for special events. Both models of the…
Martin Audio, along with sister brands, Optimal Audio, TiMax, Linea Research and OutBoard, are again joining forces for their celebrated Open Day programme—showing the best of what the Focusrite Pro brands have to offer. This will take place over three days, from March 11-13. However, such is the momentum of these twice-a-year networking and demonstration events that already the opening day is fully booked. Sessions will run from 9.30 am-5.30 pm on the opening two days with a half-day programme (from 9.30 am-2.30 pm) on Thursday. Training sessions on all brands will run alongside the demonstrations on the opening two…
Chauvet has moved its European distribution hub to a new and expanded facility. The new facility in Deinze is only about nine kilometres from Chauvet’s previous EU Hub in Kruisem, but in many ways, it is a long distance apart from its predecessor in terms of the capabilities it affords the Chauvet team to stock, sell, service and support its line of lighting products, including the Maverick, Ovation and MagicQ Stadium series. Joining Chauvet facilities in the eastern and western United States, Mexico, the UK, France and Germany, the new 8,000-square-meter Belgian hub will support the complete line of CHAUVET…
Responding to the growing demand in Mexico for its line of lighting control solutions, ChamSys has announced it will begin direct distribution of its products in that market with the establishment of ChamSys Mexico operated in partnership with Chauvet Mexico. As part of the new plan, the entire ChamSys and GeNetix line of products will be stocked, distributed, and serviced out of Chauvet Mexico’s strategically located 1,200 sqm (12,900 sq. ft.) center in Lerma. This includes the entire range of ChamSys MagicQ Stadium and Compact Consoles, which have been used to power designs at major events like the Los 40 Music Awards,…
A new book, Just 100* Questions by Greg McVeigh offers an insider’s look into the dynamics that make live sound reinforcement such a vibrant industry. Building on the successful Just One Question series of posts developed for Heil Sound, Just 100* Questions distills down the absolute essence of what it takes to be successful in the touring world. Featuring insights from sound mixers, musicians and executives in the pro audio industry, Just 100* Questions shines the spotlight on the people behind the scenes who make concerts come to life. McVeigh asks top 100 professionals just one specific question based on…
