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…
Author: Alicia Pollitt
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…
The story behind NicLen’s new investment in the Cameo ZENIT W600 G2 IP65 LED wash light doesn’t begin with technical specifications or unit numbers, but with a long-standing partnership and trust built up over the years. Cameo and NicLen have worked closely together for many years. For the Adam Hall Group, the Dortmund-based dry-hire company is far more than just another distribution channel: “NicLen is a partner that knows exactly what professional productions require,” explained Markus Jahnel, COO of the Adam Hall Group. “The fact that they have actively added the ZENIT W600 G2 to their portfolio and hire it…
Montreux Jazz Festival celebrated its 60th edition in 2026, and Meyer Sound marked 40 years as its Global Official Sound Partner—a shared milestone that both organisations have been celebrating as the “60/40”: sixty editions of the festival, forty years of the partnership. From 3–18 July, the festival welcomed more than 250,000 concertgoers across more than 700 concerts and events along the shores of Lake Geneva in Montreux, Switzerland. At the heart of the celebration, the newly refurbished Montreux Music & Convention Centre housed the festival’s two flagship venues, the 4,000-capacity Auditorium Stravinski and the 2,000-capacity Montreux Jazz Lab, where performances…
Carlos Santana’s Oneness Tour is a massive, multi-site 2026 concert series by Santana, alternating between shows on the road across North America and his long-term residency An Intimate Evening with Santana: Greatest Hits Live, now in its 14th year at House of Blues in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. With support on the road from the equally legendary Doobie Brothers, Santana’s sound has been further strengthened this year with the addition of the Fourier Audio transform.engine, a VST3 plugin host server housed in a robust 2U chassis that brings studio-grade audio software plugins to live productions.…
For Samuel Thery, Lighting Manager and Tour Technical Manager for the Les Ballets de Monte Carlo (The Monte Carlo Ballet), light exists to guide the audience’s eye, reveal emotion, and support the choreography—not call attention to itself. It is a subtle storytelling tool, one that demands precision, consistency, and restraint. That philosophy has shaped Thery’s work throughout his 17 years with the company and is why Les Ballets de Monte Carlo recently adopted Elation’s complete Paragon platform across its productions. Based in Monaco and performing throughout the year on stages around the world, the classical ballet company is renowned for…
Killswitch Engage took the Filmore stage on 3 June to kick off their summer tour with Machine Head, they transformed the iconic downtown venue into a throbbing hotbed of metallic intensity, complete with their razor-sharp guitar riffs, vicious percussion, and raucous stage diving. Moving with the multi-platinum band every step of the way was Vinny Shaw, mashing buttons on his ChamSys console as he busked his way through their jam-packed 18-song 75-minute set. “I am a big fan of strobes and strobing, yes!” said Shaw. “Whether it’s classic strobe rolls and stabs or creating wipes and patterns, or beam elements,…
Adlib has delivered integrated lighting, video and rigging solutions for the UK and Ireland leg of YUNGBLUD’s IDOLS World Tour, alongside a specialist camera package for the USA dates, helping translate the energy and intimacy of the artist’s performance to audiences at arena scale. Supporting YUNGBLUD’s biggest headline tour to date, the production required a visual language that matched the artist’s renowned connection with his fans. Working closely with the tour’s production team, Adlib developed and delivered a series of creative camera solutions designed to bring audiences closer to the performance and create unique moments that changed with every show.…
A new Hull-founded grassroots music platform has officially launched with a mission to help artists, bands, and independent venues build more sustainable futures in an increasingly challenging music economy. Play One We Know (POWK) has been created to encourage music fans to move from passive listening to active support, making it easier to discover, share and directly back the artists, venues and local music communities that need it most. At the heart of the platform is a simple message: make money, save money and make grassroots music more sustainable. POWK provides artists and venues with practical digital tools designed to…
Production Futures has announced that nominations are now open for its Breakthrough Talent Awards 2026. The awards recognise the achievements of young people across the production industries and seek to inspire future generations. With the support and sponsorship of key industry partners, the Awards span twenty-four different categories, reflecting the diversity of opportunity within the production industries. Previous winners have gone on to enjoy flourishing careers with a wide range of companies or have taken up roles as in-demand freelancers with the skills and confidence to meet any challenge. In recent years it also is noteworthy that a significant…
Set against the scenic backdrop of the Berkshire Hills in Becket, Massachusetts, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival is America’s longest-running international dance festival. Founded in 1931 by modern dance pioneer Ted Shawn on a historic 220-acre farm, this National Historic Landmark District welcomes thousands of global visitors each summer. To support its lineup of international choreographers and artists, the Festival’s Ted Shawn Theatre has been equipped with a complete, state-of-the-art Martin Audio sound system. Designed around Martin Audio’s Wavefront Precision WPM Series line arrays, the system was specified and supplied by New Jersey-based Audio Inc. “This is the first year we’ve…
Meyer Sound returned to Denmark for Roskilde Festival 2026, marking its ninth year as the Official Sound Partner. The sold-out 54th edition welcomed 140,000 participants from June 27 to July 4 with 177 acts—including The Cure, Gorillaz, Jennie, and David Byrne—performing on seven stages, all supported by Meyer Sound solutions. This year, the festival introduced the third-generation Orange stage, which offers expanded production capability for headline acts. Meyer Sound TIGRA debuted at the EOS and the new Fauna stages; PANTHER line arrays and 2100-LFC low-frequency control elements anchored the Orange, Arena, EOS and Lagune stages. TIGRA line arrays played the…
Follow-Me’s DELT∆ performer tracking system lit up a career-spanning celebration of Lulu this summer, culminating in a headline show at London’s Royal Albert Hall on 1 June. Luke Edwards took on the role of Lighting Designer for the run, which comprised three warm-up shows at various venues the week before the Royal Albert Hall date. Josh Gallagher operated the lighting rig, with Ben Hunt as Lighting Tech, Kieran Claye as Production and Video Designer, and equipment supplied by Newcastle-based lighting supplier Axiom. Edwards sees real value in warm-up shows in front of a live crowd rather than in an empty…
Sterling Event Group has expanded its Ayrton lighting inventory with a significant investment in Rivale and EagleStrike fixtures, supplied by Ambersphere Solutions. The latest additions join Sterling’s existing Diablo and white-bodied Mistral fixtures, further strengthening its production fleet. The investment comes as demand continues to grow for high-performance lighting across corporate events, live productions and outdoor projects. By bringing the latest Ayrton technology into its in-house inventory, Sterling is further enhancing its ability to deliver premium production solutions across a wide range of events. Supplied by Ambersphere Solutions, the UK’s exclusive distributor for Ayrton, the new fixtures form part of…
