Hard rock band Chevelle has embarked on a summer amphitheater tour in North America with Breaking Benjamin. Ayrton Khamsin profile luminaries are joining the band on the road controlled by a MA Lighting grandMA2 light with NPUs. ACT Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of both brands in North America. Chevelle has sold over four million albums in the US. Their eighth, “The North Corridor,” was released three years ago; “12 Bloody Spies,” a compilation of B-sides and rarities is available now. A new record is forthcoming in 2020. The amphitheater tour kicked off July 21 in St. Louis and…
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For the fifth consecutive year, Void Acoustics played a prominent role in making Boomtown Festival a wild success for Chapter 11 of this unfolding festival story. As usual, impressive Void sound systems featured across the site, including the Psy Forest, The Grid, Poco Loco, Loose Lips, 24hr Garage Girls and Chaotic Cartel stages. Void teamed up with several of its official brand rental partners to ensure the set up on every stage was delivered to the highest standard. Key players in this operation were NSL Productions, SA Acoustics and Twisted Audio. Tom Broughton, NSL Productions’ Director, had been greatly looking…
As you drive into the carpark of Harman’s Hemel-Hempstead office, you would be forgiven for thinking that this is yet another anonymous industrial park on the outskirts of London. However, once you pass through its glass doors, you step into a showcase room unlike any other. Due to the sheer scope of the Harman brand – not to mention the reach of its parent company, Samsung – you find that its products find their way into a variety of industries. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpiaug19_digitallr/88 Photos: Harman www.martin.com/en www.pro.harman.com
Manchester International Festival (MIF) is the world’s first festival of original, new work and special events. An artist-led festival, MIF is staged every two years at venues across the city and presents work from across the spectrum of performing arts, visual arts and popular culture. A major commission at this year’s festival had an urgent technical requirement, which Triple E were only too pleased to support. Jack Thompson, MIF’s Technical Director, explained: “We had an urgent requirement for a replacement system for some rollers for the world premiere of “Invisible Cities”, which we produced with 59 Productions and Rambert and…
PK Sound partners with Timbre Concerts and CRESCENDO1 to present the second annual outdoor BREAKOUT Festival on June 15-16 at the PNE Amphitheatre in Vancouver, BC. The two-day, all ages festival featured a lineup of high-caliber Canadian hip-hop and R&B artists, like Lil Berete, Yung Tory, and NinetyFour, alongside some of the hottest acts from the U.S., including A$AP Rocky, Rae Sremmurd, YBN Cordae and Saweetie. Following two successful BREAKOUT events in 2018 — the inaugural outdoor festival and Winter BREAKOUT —Timbre Concerts and CRESCENDO1 were looking for a way to reduce the potential for noise complaints at the PNE…
Ed Sheeran’s epic ÷ (Divide) Tour has been elevated to Pollstar’s highest-ranking tour of all time, handily outdistancing the old marks for both tour gross receipts and attendance totals. As has been the case since the globe-circling odyssey launched in 2017, Sheeran’s veteran audio crew relies on a Meyer Sound LEO Family system to ensure an intimate, one-to-one audio connection between the appealing pop icon and his legions of devoted fans. Production Manager and FOH Engineer Chris Marsh, who has been with Sheeran since his first headline tour in 2011, has tapped Meyer Sound’s LEO Family as his preferred audio reinforcement…
Lighting Designers Roland Greil & Patrick Woodroffe of Woodroffe Bassett Design specified over 100 Chroma-Q Color Force II LED battens to provide spectacular effects lighting for Rammstein’s European Stadium Tour 2019. One of the most technically ambitious concert productions this decade, the legendary German industrial metal band’s first-ever stadium tour – which sees them play 31 European dates this Summer to promote their number one self-titled studio album – further ups the ante on their explosive and ground-breaking live shows. Working in collaboration with production designer, Florian Wieder; production director Nicolai Sabottka; lighting directors Faren Matern & Marc Brunkhardt; and…
More than 50,000 people turned up for the Firefly Music Festival, the east coast’s largest music festival, where a packed line up of Travis Scott, Kygo, Death Cab for Cutie, Post Malone, Vampire Weekend, Passion Pit, Panic! At the Disco, Zedd and Tyler, the Creator kept the crowds entertained all weekend long. Bandit Lites worked with lighting designer Gabriel Fraboni and Lamda Productions to provide the lighting package for the main Firefly stage and Lawn Stage. Bandit Lites has been involved with the Firefly Music Festival since its beginning eight years ago, and this year saw a fresh makeover of…
The first UK arena leg of Westlife’s Twenty Tour culminated in two phenomenal shows in Croke Park stadium in Dublin, packed with 170,000 wildly enthusiastic fans in attendance. Lighting and Production Designer Tom Sutherland of DX7 Design collaborated with show producer / director Brian Burke to create the tour’s stunning production design, and integral to the slick ‘televisual’ aesthetic that Tom created for the stage was automation. Sutherland wanted certain elements of the rig to move in an elegant and refined way, changing the architecture of the performance space subtly and smoothly as the show unfolded, so he specified Kinesys…
A.C. Special Projects has expanded its team with the appointment Muraly Kuhan in the role of Business Development Manager. Muraly will work closely with AC-SP’s project managers and architectural lighting brand partners – including Traxon/e:cue, CLS, Acclaim and Chroma-Q® – to develop and implement new business. He has extensive architectural lighting sales experience on both the product manufacturer and project specifier sides, encompassing supply through to specification, design and installation. Muraly has worked closely with Lighting Designers, Lighting Consultants, Architects, Engineers and other specifying customers to provide solutions for them to realise their lighting schemes in a wide range of…
The French production designer Jean-Christophe Aubrée has taken over the lighting for two major stadium shows, featuring legendary French band Indochine (aka Indo). It was a comfortable position for Aubrée, to find himself in. Having previously worked with other well-known artists, and formerly operated in an assistant design capacity with Indo, he stepped up for the last two last shows of the long-running 13TOUR, which took to the road back in February 2018. Nicola Sirkis, Indochine’s leader, decided to create a whole new show for these two last stadium dates as a big surprise and experience for the fans. And…
Time seemed to stand still at the Centre Vidéotron, 25 May, French-Canadian stars from the 1960s and 70s performed at La Tournée des Idoles. The artists were supported by a light show designed by Andre Langevin, with help from programmer Francis Guitard and systems tech Jerome Guitard. Anchoring the rig, which was supplied by LSM were 36 CHAUVET Professional Maverick MK3 Profile fixtures. The new high output (51,000 source lumens) profile fixture was selected by LSM after extensive research. “This is the first of what will be many shows for us with the MK3,” said Gil Perron, the resident Lighting…
Using unfamiliar gear can often present challenging situations for recording professionals. But taking that leap into the unknown can also lead to new experiences that help you to develop better quality recording solutions. This is something that award-winning producer and engineer, Siegfreid Meier experienced when recording a new live album for punk icons, Face To Face, using the JoeCo BLACKBOX BBR64-DANTE recorder as part of his setup for the first time. The 250-capacity venue of Saint Vitus presented a challenge for Meier’s usual recording setup. “The stage at the venue is tiny – there’s barely enough room for the band…
The 2019 UK incarnation of the art and music festival, WOMAD, once again featured the d&b Soundscape, delivering an enhanced live sound experience that equally served the huge dynamic range of program, the touring front of house engineers, the artists, and the musically inquisitive audiences . The WOMAD d&b Soundscape stage line up featured some of the most inspiring artists and performances of this year’s festival, including the acoustic mastery of Saving Grace feat. Robert Plant, drum and bass DJ LTJ Bukem, Kenya’s Muthoni Drummer Queen, and Roosevelt Collier, whose blues, rock and gospel sound was described as ‘dirty funk…
A&T Trade and Music Trade have deployed Martin Audio’s premier WPL PA on the main stage of the Zolotoy Gorod eco park—one of the largest country parks in Russia, and located near the city of Tula. The park operates all year round and receives guests from all over the world. Music Trade, A&T Trade’s Tula-based partner, were requested to design a sound system that would serve artists all summer long. The main stage of the Zolotoy Gorod presents a multi-genre line-up featuring artists for pop, folk, orchestra, rock, electronic and theatrical performances. “We needed a universal speaker system that would…
Don’t miss the “Temporary Outdoor LED Screen Structures” presentation by Area Four Industries Technical Director, Dipl-Ing. Norbert Tripp, on 16 September from 13:30 – 14:15 in the Lighting and Production Theatre (London Olympia Hall). Temporary outdoor LED screen support structures are an important part of today’s leading live events, and this will become more and more prevalent going forward. With this in mind, Norbert dives into their proper use, design, advance planning in their set-up and important safety measures to consider. During the presentation, Norbert will provide answers to such questions as how LED screens react under wind loads, as…
The French production designer Jean-Christophe Aubrée has taken over the lighting for two major stadium shows, featuring legendary French band Indochine (aka Indo). It was a comfortable position for Aubrée, to find himself in. Having previously worked with other well-known artists, and formerly operated in an assistant design capacity with Indo, he stepped up for the last two last shows of the long-running 13TOUR, which took to the road back in February 2018. Nicola Sirkis, Indochine’s leader, decided to create a whole new show for these two last stadium dates as a big surprise and experience for the fans. And…
Lighting Designer, Matt Tyler used PROLIGHTS LED fixtures to provide stunning lighting for space-age performances by Orbital, Public Service Broadcasting and The Radiophonic Workshop at Apollo 50, a one-off event celebrating the 50thanniversary of the Moon Landing. Held at Cornwall’s Goonhilly Earth Station to celebrate the technological accomplishment of the Arthur satellite dish, which in 1969 beamed the moon landing footage live to 200 million people in Europe, the anniversary was marked with a day of music, science, art and culture. For the evening’s triple-bill concert, Tyler drew upon the technological advancements of PROLIGHTS’ LED fixtures to deliver spectacular lighting…
