Exhibiting a range of its latest lighting technology, the event saw a packed-out reception of industry professionals, freelancers and press all there to see the company’s latest range and develop new and exciting relationships. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpisep19_digitallr/16 Photos: ETC & High End Systems www.etcconnect.com www.highend.com
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Now approaching its fourth decade, Sir Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Les Misérables is the world’s longest-running musical since it opened in London in 1985. Having performed in 52 countries and 22 languages, the current UK and Ireland tour opened to rave reviews in Leicester and continues into 2020, throughout the UK. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpisep19_digitallr/10 Photo: Matthew Murphy www.autograph.co.uk
Why did you pursue a career in the events industry? “A lot of my earliest childhood memories relate to music. Playing guitar in a band was all I wanted to do growing up but I realised fairly quickly that making it a career was not in the plan for me. We played a few gigs, cut some tracks and had a lot of fun but working for nothing indefinitely was not something I wanted to do so I had to find more gainful employment.” What has been your ‘big break’ in the industry? “My first job in the business was…
PSCo, part of the Midwich Group, recently welcomed over 300 partners to its Innovation House Party. The brand-new, state-of-the-art showroom is one of the largest multi-vendor experience centres in the UK and showcased the Group’s wide-ranging technologies from across Midwich, PSCo, Sound Technology, Holdan and Invision. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpisep19_digitallr/18 Photos: PSCo www.psco.co.uk www.midwichgroupplc.com
Since its foundation in 2005, FIX8Group has been known for its commitment to excellence. Founder Neil Trenell began the business with an intuitive understanding that delivering a successful event solution for any client depended on first understanding the event’s purpose. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpisep19_digitallr/88 Photos: FIX8Group www.fix8group.com
Pink’s Beautiful Trauma World Tour – in support of her seventh studio album, Beautiful Trauma – began in North America in March 2018 and is set to conclude in November of this year on the same continent. The tour will have taken in 157 dates across 18 countries in North and South America, Europe, Australasia and the UK. Her weekend of sold out shows at London’s Wembley Stadium, where 150,000 fans gathered to see the rock pop starlet dazzle with her vocals and gymnastic skills, were part of a global audience which helped the tour gross almost $400m US dollars…
Flamboyant ‘90s pop icons the Spice Girls’ 13-date summer stadium tour, Spice World – 2019 Tour, kicked off at Croke Park Dublin in May to culminate in June at Wembley Stadium (where else!), transforming 1990s nostalgia into 21stcentury excitement as they went. Helping to bring the near-vintage flavour to modern sensibilities was a fan-based, fully-invested design team brought together by Creative Director Lee Lodge, comprising set designer Jason Sherwood, choreographer and stage director Paul Roberts and lighting designer Tim Routledge, under the art direction of Kate Moross, who succeeded in creating a show that was a fusion of theatricality and…
CORIOmaster has been chosen by custom motion graphic creators Prismax to drive more than 1000 square metres of video walls at Tomorrowland, one of the world’s biggest dance music festivals held in Boom in Belgium each summer. The units were supplied by Belgian reseller, Intronics, and will be used by Prismax at other large events. Prismax selected CORIOmaster from tvONE as it is a flexible video wall processor that allowed its’ designers to achieve striking visual effects. Ruben Gorissen, owner of Prismax said, “tvONE’s CORIOmaster video wall processor was chosen as it offers an efficient approach for building video wall…
The Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd share much in common. Both bands formed in 1965, both went on to develop die-hard followers worldwide, and both are the inspiration for Dead Floyd, a tribute group that fuses the improvised jam-band grooves of The Grateful Dead with the more prog rock stylings of Pink Floyd to deliver shows that celebrate the iconic music of both. Jake Gibson, of AOS Lighting, started designing for Dead Floyd almost ten years ago. With a deep understanding of the musical legacy of The Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd, Gibson channels the collective high-energy of both original…
Elation Professional’s European headquarters is pleased to announce the hiring of Alistair Smyth, a 24-year industry veteran who joins the growing office’s technical sales department. Smyth comes to Elation with a proven background in customer, technical, sales and project support and will provide technical advice, assistance and training for Elation’s extensive product line. Originally from Northern Ireland, Smyth lived in England for many years before recently relocating to Kerkrade, The Netherlands, home of the Elation Europe headquarter office, where he has already started in the new position. ”I have moved from England to the Netherlands to join Elation and I…
WorldStage has expanded its national sales and account management teams with the addition of Senior Account Manager Micah Dixon and Director of Business Development Malia LaFleur. With interest in WorldStage and its innovative technologies and services at an all-time high, the presence of Dixon in Orlando and Lafleur in San Francisco will increase company support for its clients and projects in the southeast and on the west coast. “We are delighted to welcome industry all-stars Micah and Malia to WorldStage as we continue to expand our offices and presence nationally to better serve our clients,” says WorldStage Senior VP Richard…
ETC and High End Systems return to PLASA on stand J38A/B with a selection of their latest products, ‘Tech Talks’ seminars by ETC specialists and an evening of networking and Augment3d games. Visitors to the Olympia London from 15-17 September can explore the newest innovations including High End Systems’ TurboRay effects fixture, ETC’s Augment3d software being added to the Eos family of controls and the ArcSystem range of house light fixtures. Augment3d is ETC’s first integrated 3D programming environment which will be a part of the upcoming Eos v3.0 software. The power of previsualization, live interaction and augmented reality are…
In the ever-evolving effort to improve and keep up with growing sales and marketing demands, VUE Audiotechnik is happy to appoint James Duvall as Central Regional Sales Manager and Richard Cruz Jr. as Marketing Coordinator. Duvall studied audio engineering and previously worked for Allen & Heath as a Commercial Solution Specialist, Bose as an IT Director and onsite Engineer at SXSW and WAVE as a Technical Service Director and Project Manager before joining VUE. Duvall also has interests in recording, sound design and live event coordination. Cruz comes to VUE with over 20 years in the music industry having worked at Carvin &…
As part of the restructuring process of our sales organization in some regions, we are pleased to announce the appointment of the company A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) as the new Claypaky distributor for the United Kingdom, and its sister company, A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ireland for the Republic of Ireland. AC-ET, with its 45 years of activity as a leading provider of cutting-edge entertainment technology products, certainly needs no introduction. Marcus Graser, designated CEO of Claypaky, said: “We are honoured by AC-ET’s decision to dedicate special resources and commitment to the distribution of our products; the collaboration between our two companies…
More d&b audiotechnik loudspeakers than ever before delivered the strums, beats and vocals of Glastonbury this year, as KSL made its debut on The Other Stage and Y- and V-Series graced The Acoustic Stage, ramping up the sound for hundreds of thousands of festival goers. Glastonbury veteran, Skan – which has been providing PA systems for the festival’s second stage since 1989 – supplied the d&b KSL System for The Other Stage, where headliners included Tame Impala, Chemical Brothers and Christine and the Queens. “The stage size and technical demands increase every year, and we have increased the spec and…
Growing up in northeastern Louisiana, country superstar Tim McGraw was familiar with the kind of hot, humid night he encountered when he took the House of Power Stadium stage as the headliner presented by Orange Motorsports and Entertainment and House of Power Production at the at the Orange County Fairgrounds. On stage McGraw relied on his team, including longtime Lighting Designer Patrick Brannon, to bring the kind of production associated with a multi-Grammy winning icon. Although the House of Power Stadium stage was not nearly as large as many that McGraw performs on, Brannon was able to give him comfortably…
A Swiss cultural tradition that extends back to 1797, the Fête des Vignerons (“Festival of the Winegrowers”) is held no more than five times each century in the small city of Vevey. This summer’s edition attracted record attendance, drawing more than a million visitors between July 18 and August 11. The principal attraction was an epic spectacle of music and dance, staged daily in a 20,000-capacity arena erected solely for this event on the city’s market square overlooking Lake Geneva. The show was a production of truly Olympian proportions, with more than 5,000 local participants working under artistic director Daniele…
FOH Engineer Mads Mikkelsen (VOLBEAT, King Diamond, Die Antwoord) chooses tools from Waves Audio, including the eMotion LV1 Live Mixer and Waves plugins, for the 2019 tour of one of Denmark’s hottest rising stars, 23-year-old singer/songwriter Jacob Dinesen. Mikkelsen notes how the Waves eMotion LV1 Live Mixer and Waves plugins enable him to get a large and pristine live sound in a variety of venues on the tour. He remarked: “This tour is the first time I’ve used the eMotion LV1 as my mixer. I’m using it along with the Waves Mercury bundle and the Dugan Automixer, with all plugins…
