Malasimbo Festival 2019, which was held on 1-2 March 2019, welcomed around 5,000 visitors to Puerto Galera in the Philippines. Its organiser Miro Grgic takes a purist approach to sound, leading him to Funktion-One several years ago. After eight years at Malasimbo Ampitheater, the festival relocated to the private nature reserve park of White Beach, only 4km from the original site. The new site includes a jungle and a virgin beach, more nature, new terrain stages, and more roaming space. Grgic is, in fact, more than just the organiser. “It’s a bit of passion project,” he said. “I organise and…
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ITV’s Dancing on Ice live grand finale was screened on 11 March 2018 and award-winning caterer Eat to the Beat has been on-hand throughout the series to deliver crew catering services to for the second year in succession. The popular TV programme was filmed at a purpose-built ice rink and TV studio at Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, just a few miles from Eat to the Beat’s HQ and saw celebrities paired with professional ice dancers to perform figure skating routines in front of a panel of judges, including Olympic skaters, Jane Torville and Christopher Dean. Eat to the Beat arrived onsite at the…
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Sennheiser has created materials to help customers understand the imminent government 700 MHz band clearance and the impact that it has on wireless microphones and IEMs more clearly: 700 MHz UK Stay Heard Flyer Sennheiser 700 MHz customer support materials: A detailed flyer about the 700 MHz clearance, including the eligibility requirements for Ofcom compensation, and what customers should do next. An ‘RF health check’ tool for end users to check whether its wireless operating frequencies are: a) compliant after the 700 MHz clearance b) eligible for compensation You can take the 2 minutes long RF Health Check test here: www.sennheiser.com/stayheard
Backstage Academy has announced the continuing support of long-term partner, d&b audiotechnik. This was confirmed by d&b Director Stephen Hogg and Miles Marsden, Backstage Academy’s Industry Partnerships Director, who instigated the original agreement. The loudspeaker and audio solutions manufacturer is one of a number of high-profile technology suppliers, across all disciplines, with whom the Academy is partnered. This provides ongoing access, not only to the latest technology but also to guest lecturers, masterclasses and collaborative projects for the degree programmes. Marsden said he is delighted the German company is embarking on its third year with the Academy. “d&b has a…
Cirque de Soleil’s latest production, R.U.N, which opened November 14 at the Luxor in Las Vegas, continues to flip theater expectations with a little help from Point Source Audio microphones. A live-action graphic novel out to thrill, R.U.N delivers “back-alley fistfights, bike jumps, car chases, high falls, and body burns,” the sounds of which are captured in all of their visceral intensity though the inventive use of Point Source GO-8WM moldable microphones. For more than 30 years, Cirque de Soleil has defied the limits of art and innovation as the largest contemporary circus company on the planet. Mesmerizing audiences on…
ER Productions is pleased to announce that its Kinekt laser fixture was awarded a PLSN Gold Star Award for Best Laser Product 2018, presented during the LDI show in Las Vegas last month. Every September the PLSN team meet with writers, lighting designers, set designers and directors to review various new products in the live entertainment industry. The winning products are selected from hundreds that they view to be exceptional pieces of technology over the year. Launched in 2017, Kinekt was the world’s first modular laser system. Kinekt is a small, lightweight, modular scanning laser. As it connects on both X…
ER Productions have been working with the Chemical Brothers for a number of years, creating laser visuals worthy of the duo’s heady electronic shows. This year saw the pair appear at various festivals and venues across Europe and ER was on board for the ride once again, and this time bringing some exciting SFX into the mix. Known for being boundary breakers of their time, Chemical Brothers, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, have spent nearly 30 years bringing big beat tunes to their fan base of dance and rock fans alike. The 2018 Chems live tour began in June, at…
Big Picture recently supplied a turnkey camera and editing solution for its friends at Five Peas who were engaged to co-produce Panic! At the Disco’s performance of Bohemian Rhapsody for the American Music Awards by Dick Clark Productions. The performance was recorded live at PATD’s Sydney show at Qudos Bank Arena with a very tight schedule and integration with an arena touring show no obstacle for the Big Picture team. Big Picture supplied our HD-8 Carbonite 3ME 3G PPU System complete with Panasonic AK-HC5000 1080P Camera Chains using a selection of Fujinon HD 99x Long lenses and HD Wide Angle…
German heavy metal heroes Accept rely on Allen & Heath’s dLive system for FOH and monitor duties on their current worldwide Rise of Chaos tour. Founded in 1968, Accept are without a doubt amongst the pioneers of the German heavy metal scene and landed their first major international success in the early 80’s. After a 10-year hiatus, they reformed in 2009 with a new lead singer and since then have achieved multiple Top 10 chart entries and regularly perform across Europe and America. For the current tour, the band decided to use an Allen & Heath dLive system for the…
PRG Germany has wasted little time in adding large quantities of GLP’s new impression S350 next-generation LED moving head to its hire fleet in a deal which will see them taking a minimum of 100 of the fixtures on stock. Some of the units were immediately commandeered by leading LD Jerry Appelt for use on the second MTV Unplugged appearance by rock musician, Udo Lindenberg. The impression S350 profile light offers an unparalleled feature-set in the mid-sized fixture category. This includes unique controllability, a very high colour rendering, a full four-blade framing system with rotating gate and near silent operation.…
Almost every word and note performed at the inaugural All Together Now (ATN) festival was heard through a d&b audiotechnik system supplied by Dublin’s Session Hire, who was charged with handling the full gamut of audio and visual requirements at the event. Established thirty five years ago by Eddie Ashe Browne, the company has a long standing relationship with POD, as Session Hire sales director, and Eddie’s son, Adam Ashe Browne explains… “We’ve been working with the promoters for years and they always put a huge emphasis on delivering the best audio experience for visitors. We were delighted when we…
Multimillion-selling Japanese singer Yumi Matsutoya’s Time Machine arena tour has kicked off in spectacular style with a stunning lighting design by Theo Cox. Cox, who during his 25-year career has created epic lighting for an eclectic mix of top international artists, was invited by Matsutoya’s team to create an impactful experience designed to fill Japan’s largest live music venues with wonder and joy. “It’s a marvellously quirky show – Yumi materialises on stage riding a life-sized animatronic elephant, later there is an ‘underwater’ scene of ethereal jellyfish with aerial performers in shiny silver suits – it’s bonkers, Japanese style,” said…
Featuring songs drawn not only from Gary Numan’s latest album and a back catalogue favourites. LD Luke Edwards (of Cue Design) also made sure there was plenty of inventory from GLP to highlight both the theatrical and more dynamic electronic elements. As Numan’s long-term lighting designer, Edwards has seen production values raised incrementally over the years, and now with a full orchestra, the bar has been lifted again. “Everything was much bigger and needed more space on the floor, while the orchestra adds so much drama which gives me a lot of sounds that I can accent or do lights to.”…
Norwegian LD, Kimarius Abrahamsen, chose Ayrton MagicBlade-R and MagicBlade-FX lighting fixtures as the main structural elements of his design for Cezinando’s tour and summer festival appearances this year, helping earn the Norwegian singer, rapper and songwriter his third NRK P3 Gull (Gold) Award as Live Artist of the Year. The singer, whose latest album, Noen ganger og andre (‘Sometimes and Others’), was the best-selling Norwegian-language album of 2017, has previously won Newcomer of the Year 2016 and Song of the Year 2017 in this annual music show and award ceremony which is aimed at young adults and organized by Norway’s NRK television…
When Wembley’s SSE Arena opened its doors for the first time to an all-nighter, featuring undisputed champion of drum ‘n’ bass, Andy C, it presented a number of fresh challenges not previously encountered. With only the lower bowl area open for the occasion (and the upper tribunes screened off) Capital Sound needed to design its Martin Audio MLA sound system accordingly, while their system tech Ben Turnbull also needed to ensure the minimum of noise escape—as the Wembley area is now densely populated with flats and hotels—to guide the event safely through to dawn. Promoter and production company Lock ‘N’…
Epson extended its position as a projector manufacturer in the Pro AV and installation market above 6,000 lumens across EMEAR & CIS, according to latest market share data from Futuresource. Epson now commands 34% of the Pro AV market across EMEAR, an increase of 12 percentage points over the same period last year, with market share continuing to increase in 2018. Across the world, Epson has held the number one market share position for projectors for 17 successive years, with total global sales of projectors of 23.7m since 2006. Epson is now the market share global leader for projectors above…
