Research shows that even a four-week delay to the UK government’s roadmap would cost the live music sector over £500m, with the summer festival season at risk of total collapse, according to LIVE (Live music Industry Venues & Entertainment). Over 5,000 shows by artists including Olly Murs, Tom Odell, Rag’n’Bone Man, Beverley Knight, McFly, Alexandra Burke and Rudimental say they would either need to cancel or postpone, incurring immediate costs across the live music supply chain and further damaging an industry already hanging in the balance. The rumoured move comes despite the fact that by the UK government’s own evidence, large scale…
Author: Jacob Waite
PUSH LIVE has published the results of a UK consumer survey that reveals the ‘untapped opportunities’ event organisers can leverage by livestreaming to help rebuild the UK’s live events sector. Research shows that streaming could encourage older generations back to live events, with almost a third of 45 to 54-year-olds and over a quarter of those over age 55 likely to stream their favourite artist, band, or musician from home. As the live events industry begins to organise and run the first in-person concerts, festivals, and sporting events in over a year, the research shows that live streaming could open…
Powersoft has announced two additions to its renowned touring amplifier platform, the T Series, which will allow the company to replace its K Series. Since it was introduced 18 years ago, the K Series has proven itself to be one of the most reliable and widely used amplifiers on the market, receiving high praise for its lasting audio quality, power density, efficiency, and stable and long-term power. Building on this legacy, Powersoft introduced the T Series in 2019, and in doing so defined the ‘next generation specs’ for amplifiers in live sound applications, as well as setting new long-term benchmarks…
Kristof Van Mensel of Belgium-based lighting and visual design company, The Creative Factory (TCF) turns to Astera LED products for a series of projects. He uses them extensively – particularly AX3 LightDrops – in his projects for anything from a live performance to festivals to television studio lighting work. The tiny AX3s are particularly useful for ‘pop-up’ scenarios, he explains, or for shifting between mobile locations. “Two cases of eight AX3 LightDrops are always in the back of my car ‘just in case’ and are infinitely useful,” he stated. AX3s are battery powered and wirelessly controlled like all Astera products,…
Dark Matter is a brand-new permanent exhibition space for lighting, visual and sonic art, and technology in Berlin’s lively Lichtenberg district – comprising seven unique sculptural and kinetic visual works created by light artist, Christopher Bauder of WHITEvoid. This experience, which opened last week, is the long-term brainchild of Bauder and his quest to curate a “parallel cosmos of expansive lighting installations blurring the boundaries between real and digital worlds” capturing and stimulating emotional, spiritual, and imaginative journeys as guests embrace the artworks. Robe lighting supplied Tetra2 and MegaPointe fixtures in one of the large exhibition spaces, Hall 2. The seven…
Amate Audio has expressed positive conclusions about exhibiting at ISE Live in Barcelona. Selected to exhibit in the Catalan Innovation Zone in the Fira Barcelona Gran Via, as the region’s premier pro-audio loudspeaker manufacturer, in association with ACCIÓ, the Government of Catalunya’s agency promoting Business Competitiveness, the Terrassa, Barcelona based company was one of just three major PA loudspeaker manufacturers exhibiting live at the show. Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Joan Amate reflected that the local focus of the event was, of itself, of value: “Although large-scale PA manufacturers were under represented, there were a significant number of visitors…
The Austrian landmark par excellence, the Stephansdom cathedral in Vienna, was beaming not just with the enthusiasm of the countless helpers on the 28 May, but also due to the impressive usage of modern media playout display technologies. The 90-minute-long live TV charity fundraising show was broadcast on ORF 2 and Krone.tv. The project, which had been initiated by the LIFE+ Chairman, Gery Keszler supports the aid organisations Caritas, Diakonie, Hilfswerk, Red Cross, Samariterbund and Volkshilfe. LIFE+ itself supports socially relevant projects that fight epidemic diseases and helps people impacted by them. A variety of well-known Austrian artists invited the…
Creative Technology (CT) has turned to Elation Professional KL Panel LED soft lights for its US-based LED studios, adding a several of the full-colour-spectrum fixtures to its growing rental inventory. In the United States, CT operates virtual event LED studios in Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York and Nashville. Each is equipped with xR and camera tracking technology that works with powerful graphics engines to create dynamic scenes that put a presenter or product virtually into any environment. The results are truly spectacular. In late spring of 2020, Creative Technology contacted Elation about a high-quality LED soft light…
Making its Barcelona debut, ISE Live & Online (1-2 June) safely welcomed the AV industry to the first in-person and hybrid event to take place at the Fira de Barcelona Gran Via venue since November 2019. ISE Live & Online (1-2 June) closed its doors at the Fira de Barcelona after a successful two-day physical exhibition, with face-to-face networking, over 50 exhibitor booths, in-person keynotes and roundtables as well as the concurrent ISE Digital programme. It was a beacon of confidence for the safe return of live events in the city. Integrated Systems Events Managing Director, Mike Blackman opened the…
As the largest free music event in Europe, Primo Maggio – Italy’s annual Labour Day celebration – usually attracts over 500,000 music lovers to the streets of Rome for a day and night of live music. With COVID-19 restrictions still in place, the 2021 event was moved to the Cavea, an open-air amphitheatre in the Auditorium Parco della Musica, to accommodate live broadcast on Italian national TV and radio, plus a small – and socially distanced – audience of 500 people. Rome based rental company ABC oversaw the event’s production, and as with previous years they enrolled the assistance of…
In its mission to revolutionise real-time content rendering, disguise has unveiled its new rx II hardware release, with the fastest and most powerful professional GPU available on the market. The new rendering node unlocks 40% more graphics processing power than its rx predecessor to reliably render larger and higher quality scenes in real-time engines such as Unreal Engine, on any display canvas and across any industry application. When working on any type of creative project, whether it be fixed installations, virtual production, broadcast or even live shows, the disguise workflow enables users to update their content in real-time, delivering astonishingly…
VIOSO has made a raft of appointments in order to expand its network of global representatives in Spain and Portugal, Turkey, Russia, France, India, Japan, and the GCC and Egypt. Spain’s LANG Iberia – one of the leading European companies for rental and sale of video and visual presentation technology with more than 40 years as expertise on video solutions – has also been appointed as VIOSO’s new distributor for Spain and Portugal. “We have known about VIOSO’s products for long time,” said LANG Iberia Director of Rental and Sales, Guillem Niñerola Hähnle. “We think they could become the new…
Keith Hoagland is not normally given to public displays of emotion. But at the start of his spotlight meeting prior to Jason Aldean’s Friday May 14 show at The Bonnaroo Farm, he admits it was kind of difficult to avoid. “Things got real at that meeting prior to the show,” said Hoagland, owner of CKP Lighting. “That’s when it hit me. My voice cracked and I just stopped to let it all sink in. I apologised to my crew, but they all felt the same way. It was all very emotional. We were all so happy and grateful to be…
Health and wellbeing Tour Manager and The Back Lounge Founder, Suzi Green, has commissioned a series of free resilience workshops for the touring industry. The three free sessions will cover: Mindfulness for Touring with Craig Ali (Monday 21 June 6pm), Healthy Boundaries with Laura Ferguson (Wednesday 14 July), and Sleep & Jet Lag with Matt Kansy (Wednesday 4 August). The workshops were made possible thanks to the UK’s Culture Recovery Fund and will help to equip the freelance touring community with basic resilience tools as the return of live events and concert touring draws ever closer. Green, whose clients include Placebo,…
The Alliance of Associations and Professionals in Theatre & Live Events (AAPTLE), Wellbeing Group has launched a follow up evaluation study on the mental health and well-being of backstage professionals across all entertainment sectors. This follows a similar survey in 2019 – funded and conducted by the ABTT, ALD, ASD, PSA, and PLASA – which gave a valuable insight into the wellbeing of industry professionals and can be downloaded here. Now, following the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on all live entertainment activity, AAPTLE is seeking to expand the data to better understand the impact of the pandemic on…
In 2009, U2 embarked on their iconic 360° tour which saw them transport a 190-tonne steel stage named ‘The Claw’ to 30 countries around the globe for more than 7.2 million people to marvel at. Over a decade later, The Claw is now finally in its new home as a permanent art installation at Utah’s Living Planet Aquarium, making it the largest repurposed stage structure ever to exist. Working with a talented team of engineers, architects and trusted suppliers, Wonder Works Co-Director Jeremy Lloyd was responsible for the technical design of this 165ft-tall award winning megastructure, which took just under…
Postponed from 2020, this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, its 65th edition, was held at the Rotterdam Ahoy in The Netherlands. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Nederlands Publieke Omroep (NPO), Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS and AVROTOS). Official technical supplier, Ampco Flashlight Supplier, provided lighting, rigging and audio requirements, which included DiGiCo Quantum 7 mixing consoles at both FOH and monitor positions. Working on the lavish production fans have come to know and expect were Erwin Rintjema, ESC Head of Production, Thijs Peters, Head of Broadcast Sound, Ampco Flashlights’ Remco Verhoek as Senior Project Manager and Dennis…
Tasked with enlivening Shawnee Cave Amphitheatre surroundings with vivid colours and making the cave wall come alive with gobo patterns for jam bands – The Infamous Stringdusters, Sam Bush, Leftover Salmon, Keller Williams, Kyle Tuttle Banjo, and Chicken Wire Empire – Kyle Curtis enhanced the evocative effect of the setting without distracting from the artists over the US Memorial Day weekend. Helping him accomplish this feat was a collection of 54 CHAUVET Professional fixtures supplied by Chris Parton and his team at Midwest Music Supply. Curtis’ design, which was run on a ChamSys MQ500M, transformed the entire 300 by 100ft cave area.…
