Fusion – La Nuit Rap was a four-hour non-stop live show which took place in front of 10,000 fans at the LDLC Arena in Lyon. The show featured major French rap and R&B artists, including Gazo, Leto, Franglish,TK, RnBoi, Gambi, and Guy2bezbar, as well as local Lyon talent, Nanaa Benz, Berle, and Ness, who played the opening sets. A rap-focused event such as Fusion demands powerful premium audio with great emphasis placed on precise vocal reproduction, so the organisers engaged leading production supplier, Eurosono to supply a system which could meet the event’s demanding requirements, which resulted in a CODA…
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Vectorworks has congratulated the student winners of the 2026 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) regional design awards. These talented designers have demonstrated standout creativity and technical skill in scenic and lighting design, representing the next wave of storytellers in the entertainment industry. The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival is a national program that annually engages more than 18,000 students from colleges and universities across the United States. Since its inception, KCACTF has provided more than 400,000 students with opportunities to have their work critiqued, refine their dramatic skills, and gain national recognition for excellence, with millions of…
James performs with spontaneity and without set lists, so being ready for anything is important to Front of House engineer, Chris Lynch, who has chosen DiGiCo. The generous surface area of the Quantum 338 and three large screens means that everything he needs access to is within arms-reach. In addition Aled Irfan, at the monitor position, is using an SD10 and has also invested in KLANG and a Fourier transform.engine. His company, AL Touring, supplies the control package for the tour including microphones, in-ear monitoring, and stage-wedges, with the PA provided by Solotech. “I’ve been touring the Quantum 338 for…
LIVE Trust has doubled the amount of funding distributed through its Phase Two programme, bringing the total to £1.5 million. The funding comes from a voluntary £1 contribution added to tickets for shows with a capacity of more than 5,000. The funding will support programmes that help keep venues open, festivals running, artists on the road, and the people behind the promotion and staging of live music. Since launching in January 2025, LIVE Trust has secured more than 6 million ticket pledges, working with 10 promoters across more than 100 tours. Less than a year since LIVE Trust’s first meeting,…
IPS has announced the arrival of two significant new additions to its hire inventory, the d&b audiotechnik U Series compact point source loudspeaker system and the CCL (Compact Cardioid Line Array) system. Both products represent important milestones in professional audio development, and their arrival at IPS underscores the company’s clear commitment to keeping pace with, and ahead of, the evolving demands of the live events industry. The U Series delivers directivity control and efficiency across both networked and passive variants. Equally at home in touring and installed environments, it is a system built for the full breadth of modern production…
NOWIE has announced a new collaboration with UN Women UK to deliver its annual research project, The Big Survey. The Big Survey is an annual report that surveys professionals in the events sector to understand gender dynamics, policy, career satisfaction, and rates of sexual harassment and assault in the industry. NOWIE is a Community Interest Company, championing gender equality in the events industry through mentoring schemes, networking opportunities, and encouraging policy and structural reform. The team has shared that this year’s edition of The Big Survey will build on the 2025 data, seeking actionable solutions to the challenges women in…
The Red Clay Strays toured America last summer and fall with dozens of sold-out amphitheatres cheering on their blend of Southern rock, country, and blues. The 33-stop Get Right tour followed profile-raising shows at the Railbird Music Festival, the Outlaw Music Festival, Bonnaroo, and CMA Fest. At each venue on Get Right, the Alabama rockers were supported by a Cohesion audio system. “Audio isn’t just important to the band; it’s important to me. We put a premium on it,” explained Production Manager Kevin Freund before a show at Bridgeport, Connecticut’s Hartford HealthCare Amphitheatre. “We had to give fans the ‘Get…
In professional audio, we spend a lot of time talking about power, SPL, frequency response and coverage patterns. But increasingly, I believe the conversation needs to go beyond performance specifications alone. We also need to ask harder questions about where our equipment is made, how responsibly it is produced, and whether the industry is building products designed to last. At BishopSound, British manufacturing is not a marketing slogan. It is a deliberate commitment to quality, transparency and long-term sustainability values that feel more relevant today than ever before. The live events and touring industries are built on reliability. Whether you’re…
AED UK has announced the strategic strengthening of its commercial team with the appointment of Nick Powell as Account Manager and Lee Price as Business Development Manager. The appointments mark a further step in AED UK’s commitment to supporting AV professionals with the right equipment solutions, expertise and day-to-day support needed to grow their businesses. With close to 20 years of experience at PRG across the UK and the Middle East, Price brings a strong track record in asset management and team leadership. Having played a key role in restructuring and rebuilding the PRG UK asset team over the past…
Laufey’s A Matter of Time tour accompanies the album of the same name and began in 2025, concluding in August 2026 with dates globally. At front of house, Matt Grabe is using a DiGiCo Quantum 338, while monitor engineer, Sebastian Mut, began the tour with a Quantum 338, but expanded into a Quantum 5 for later dates. All consoles are supplied by Sound Image, a Clair Global brand. Grabe started engineering and mixing in studios. Twelve years later, a good friend, front of house engineer Shane Haase, took him out on tour as system engineer for Alabama Shakes. He worked…
SEL Live has further strengthened its staging and structures inventory with an investment in custom-designed MILOS Keder Tech Sheds, an addition to their MILOS MR2K 12 x 10 mtr roof system, enhancing production flexibility and operational efficiency for festivals, concerts, and live events across the UK. The new technical shed configuration made its debut at Abbey Park in Leicester mid-June, where the MILOS MR2K roof system formed the centrepiece of the main stage for a major weekend of live entertainment headlined by Madness. The event welcomed thousands of music fans and showcased the latest evolution of SEL Live’s growing structures…
When the New York Knicks basketball team ended a fifty-three year wait for an NBA championship by winning game five of the 2026 Finals against San Antonio Spurs, a spectacular and triumphant return to the team’s home city was never in doubt. An estimated two million people took to the streets to welcome their victorious team along the Canyon of Heroes parade route, which saw unprecedented scenes of celebration culminate in a symbolic presentation of the keys to New York at City Hall. For an event of this magnitude, the delivery of powerful, reliable, crystal clear audio for speeches, music…
Russell Dickerson’s RussellMania Tour represents a step up in production scale and spans a wide range of venue formats, the lighting rig needed to deliver consistent visual impact in any environment. GLP’s JDC1 hybrid LED strobes helped tie the entire dynamic rig together. Lighting design, programming, and creative direction were led by Nick Chang, owner and lighting/production designer at Prismic Productions, alongside project manager and creative Chris Diener. Chang was engaged by production manager Zander Scott with just six weeks until production rehearsals. A timeframe of this nature required delivering a full rig design, programming 20 songs, and finalising all tour…
Wisycom has further strengthened its ecosystem of professional wireless solutions with the MPR60 Wideband IEM/IFB Receiver with expanded multichannel IFB mode, MATF Wideband Antenna Matrix and PFL Portable RF over Fibre (RFoF) Box, which the company presented at InfoComm 2026. Together, these technologies deliver significant advancements for large‑scale, complex wireless infrastructures across broadcast, live events, corporate production and RF over Fibre applications. The latest firmware update for the MPR60 Wideband IEM/IFB Receiver introduces a powerful three‑channel IFB mode, which enables up to three IFB audio channels to be transmitted over a single 200 kHz RF carrier. When paired with the…
Jerry Harvey Audio (JH Audio) has announced the appointment of GerrAudio Distribution as its exclusive distribution partner in Canada. The appointment follows JH Audio’s acquisition by Sound Devices in May 2025, bringing together two leading professional audio brands. As the Canadian distributor for Sound Devices, GerrAudio is a natural choice to expand JH Audio’s presence and support customers as new technologies and integrated workflows emerge from the partnership. With established relationships across Canada’s live sound, broadcast, and installation markets, GerrAudio will support existing JH Audio customers while introducing the company’s custom and universal-fit in-ear monitors to new users. Previously, JH Audio…
Northern Germany’s largest multi-purpose arena, currently known as Barclays Arena, will be renamed Sparda-Bank Arena effective 21 July 2027. Through this long-term naming-rights partnership, Sparda-Bank Hamburg and Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) Germany are underscoring their shared commitment to the region and to delivering world-class live entertainment in northern Germany. The partnership brings together Northern Germany’s leading multi-purpose arena and the region’s largest member-owned cooperative bank. For Sparda-Bank, the long-term agreement and partnership mark a strategic step in further enhancing brand visibility while strengthening its connection with people across northern Germany. As part of the partnership, the bank’s customers and members…
Swedish House Mafia recently made a historic debut appearance in Estonia. At the famous Tallinn Song Festival Grounds, fans enjoyed their first live experience of the legendary band anywhere in the Baltic region. The concert was powered by a Martin Audio Wavefront Precision WPL sound system – also marking the first time the flagship line array has been deployed in Estonia. The Tallinn Song Festival Grounds (Tallinna Lauluväljak) is one of Estonia’s most iconic outdoor event spaces. Completed in 1960 and considered a masterpiece of post-war architecture, it features a unique concrete arch designed by Henno Sepmann to create powerful…
In 2018, Lorde made history by becoming the first artist to take out a full arena deployment of L-Acoustics L-ISA, utilizing K2 arrays, on her acclaimed Melodrama tour. Following her Solar Power tour four years later, the New Zealand-based artist has more recently returned to arenas with the Ultrasound World Tour with a fresh complement of L-Acoustics L Series loudspeakers supplied by Clair Global, which also deployed an L-ISA Hyperreal Sound system on the campaign’s North American dates. FOH engineer Philip J Harvey, an L-Acoustics Artisan of Sound, has worked with Lorde on all of her tours since the beginning…
