For this BBC Proms series, Delta Live has deployed L-ISA Hyperreal Sound, giving the system its Proms debut and audiences an intensely real audio experience. Delta Live’s association with The Proms stretches back nearly two decades with Sound by Design, now incorporated into the Delta group, first working on the events in 2000. Delta account director Stephen Hughes has worked on every season since 2004, has an intimate knowledge of the Royal Albert Hall, and has deployed many a standard stereo system there. This is not the first time L-ISA has been deployed at the RAH ‑ the system was…
Author: Jacob Waite
The RAW Foundation, which jointly produced the AIF’s Drastic on Plastic campaign in which 60 festivals pledged to eliminate single-use plastic, has released the full program for its RAW Talks: Inspiration for ‘pointless plastic’-free event industry which it will deliver on 18 October between 11am and 2pm at this year’s Showman’s Show held at Newbury Showground. The event, which takes place in the Hub Talks tent, located opposite the exit from the Exhibition Hall to the main Showground, offers a unique opportunity to find out the facts about why plastic is a problem, and what steps events can take to become ‘pointless…
Hanyuan Lake, a new venue in the Shaanxi Province in China, has recently invested in an Allen & Heath dLive mixing system for their performances, including their regular production (organised by the Beijing FengShangShiJi Culture Media Company) of ‘The Legend of Han Dynasty’. Purchased through local distributors, EZPro Intl, the set-up comprises a dLive S5000 paired with a DM64 MixRack and Dante card, for virtual soundcheck. Zhao Yangyang (main sound engineer at Hanyuan), commented: “dLive has an incredibly intuitive interface and its simple operation makes it easy and quick to learn. The integrated redundancy in dLive S Class hardware brings…
BLACKBOX BBR1B makes live recording “easy” declares FOH Engineer Mattia Sartori. With an incredible live set at the inaugural RPMM Festival in the Portuguese city of Porto, Francesca Lombardo – famous for her unique electronic sound – gave rise to a thrilling fusion of live and pre-programmed music. At Front of House was Live Engineer Mattia Sartori, who captured the set on one of his 2 JoeCo BBR1B BLACKBOX multi-track recorders. London-based Sartori has held senior audio engineering and project management posts across the world and regularly takes his BLACKBOX recorders out on the road, enjoying “a totally robust and…
Over the past few years, Alcons Audio pro-ribbon systems have proved themselves more than capable of handling the high SPLs demanded at European dance music festivals and, at Trondheim Rocks, an LR28 system showed that it is the perfect system for hard rock and heavy metal too. The new festival got off to a flying start, with a sell-out crowd enjoying 16 bands over 2 days and the mighty Iron Maiden closing the event on their Legacy Of The Beast tour. Held in the grounds of the city’s Dahl brewery, very close to residential buildings, the FoH system had to…
As show lighting and video professionals prepare for the inaugural Knight of Illumination Awards USA (KOI-USA), to be held in Las Vegas on 20 October 2018 the organisers have revealed the shortlist. Following the launch of KOI-USA back in April 2018, nominations were received from across the US and around the world. Nominations fall into three categories – Theatre, Live for Broadcast, and Concert Touring & Events – and the shortlist includes some of the world’s best-known names in lighting and video design: Concert Touring & Events: LeRoy Bennett, Bob Bonniol, Gabriel Coutu-Dumont, Ben Dalgleish, Patrick Dierson, Cory FitzGerald, Bryan…
Dushow supplies new, multifunctional CMY moving head for French rapper’s summer tour. Lighting design studio, LightLab, headed by lighting designer and art director Alexandre LeBrun, created a flexible and impactful lighting and stage design for French rapper Nekfeu’s summer tour based around mobile walls of light and used Elation Professional’s new multi-functional Smarty Hybrid CMY colour mixing moving head, supplied by Dushow, to realise the stunning look. Nekfeu toured across France this past summer, playing a dozen concerts including festivals such as Lollapalooza, Solidays, and Marsatac. LightLab, who also worked with Nekfeu and his S-Crew on last year’s “Zenith” tour,…
Robert Juliat is thrilled to have been awarded a prestigious PLASA Award for Innovation for its SpotMe a creative tracking system that works in association with followspots. The Innovation Awards took place at the PLASA London show amid huge competition, with 47 entries and only 8 Awards at stake. SpotMe is Robert Juliat’s bespoke, 3D tracking system for followspots and the only performer tracking system to be driven via a real followspot. The SpotMe system communicates the X, Y, Z positions and the beam size parameters to the console. All parameters are then used by the console to control any automated…
For the past 4 years, the Lightpower Collection has toured worldwide with In the Eye of the Rock ’n’ Roll Hurricane, an exhibition which shows the body of work from acclaimed Rock ‘n’ Roll photographer, Neal Preston. In it are more than 70 of his iconic pictures: legendary album covers, views behind the scenes, moments that made history – the essence of Rock ’n’ Roll and concert touring that has dominated out industry since the late ‘60s. Neal Preston’s fine art prints are highly sought after by collectors worldwide, and Lightpower Collection donates all proceeds from the sale of prints…
Colours of Ostrava (COO / Colours), a popular Czech Republic music festival with 20 performance stages offering over 350 live music acts and plenty of other creative engagement across four days, attracting a population of 50,000 fans from all over Europe. Each year, the Robe moving light count on this landmark event rises, and 2018 saw the most Robe on site to date! The organisers also invested heavily in the production and the basic festival infrastructure this year, upping the ante on every level and every stage, reflecting the importance of Colours on the European summer events calendar. Site-wide technical production…
Ensuring the crowd a realistic listening experience were 2 key brands on the international pro audio scenario, both headquartered in Italy, Outline and Powersoft, whose specialists interacted with Cisko Ridolfi and Francesco Penolazzi, respectively Rockin’1000’s sound manager and sound designer. The main Outline PA, deployed round the band, which occupied a huge area of the pitch, comprised ten stacks (6 with 6 GTO C-12 and 4 with 5 GTO), plus 6 lines of subs in end-fire array (4 consisting of 4 DBS 18-2 and 2 made up of 4 LAB 21 HS). These (and the monitor speakers fielded) were supplied…
Olivier Award-winning The Play That Goes Wrong, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is embarking on a UK tour and White Light is supplying the lighting equipment. A Mischief Theatre Company production, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is produced by Kenny Wax and Stage Presence in association with Birmingham Rep and features a lighting design by David Howe. Howe commented: “Bank Robbery is a play where the situation really brings the comedy to life. You have an escaped convict set on capturing a priceless diamond from the bank and with him his eccentric sidekick, trickster girlfriend and the maintenance…
Dundee’s landmark new V&A museum beamed its way onto the world’s cultural map in September with a spectacular light, sound and pyrotechnics-focused opening ceremony. At the helm of the bold colour washes and intricate shapes was lighting designer John Rogers, armed with two Avolites Tiger Touch II consoles. Rogers was commissioned for the project by Jon Pugh of JMP Productions. The pair employed 30 Robe BMFL WashBeams in weatherproof domes and eight Prolights SunBLAST IP rated LED Strobes to achieve their design. These were rigged at ground level around the exterior of the V&A, pointed directly at the building’s unique…
For post-hardcore music fans the summer of 2018 was something special as two of the genres best, New York-based Quicksand and Glassjaw, teamed up on a 20-date, co-headlining tour across the U.S. JDI Productions, of Rhode Island served as lighting vendor for Quicksand with an Elation Professional lighting rig of DARTZ 360 LED moving heads, ACL 360 Bar LED battens and Cuepix Blinder WW2 keeping colorful pace with the band’s creatively intense sound. The July 7-August 3 tour was a high energy sampling of Quicksand classics mixed with numbers from the band’s latest album, “Interiors,” released late in 2017 and…
London’s Capital Sound Hire supplied sound systems to two of the 30+ stages at this year’s Creamfields event, including a substantial Outline GTO C-12 rig for the Generator Stage. One of the world’s premier dance music events, Creamfields 2018 featured a stellar lineup of superstar DJs and artists from the worlds of EDM, house, trance, D&B, and grime, entertaining crowds of up to 70,000 across the August Bank Holiday weekend. Headliners on the Generator Stage included Vini Vici, Danny Howard, Steve Angello, Duke Dumont, Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond and Alesso. Capital designed a system for the event using…
Each year, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway is transformed into an electronic dance music village made up of multiple live music stages, food and retail vendors, and more than 100,000 resident revellers per day– all there to celebrate a multitude of electronic music genres during the three-day Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC). For the eleventh year in a row, Las Vegas-based 3G Productions was on site to manage audio production for 3 of the largest stages in the Speedway – Cosmic Meadow, Kinetic Field, and Circuit Ground. Julio Valdez, senior systems engineer for 3G Productions, specified d&b audiotechnik sound reinforcement for…
When the ‘bombastic’ elrow Town festival landed in East London’s Olympic Park it had one main aim: to take revellers on a psychedelic trip through the Swinging 60s to Latin Samba. Challenged with serving up the eye-curdling visual effects was Philip Mayer of GaiaNova, using Avolites Ai R8 servers. Main stage photos went viral, as attendees shared photos of its kaleidoscopic, swirling colours and enthusiastic performers kitted out in tie-dye clobber on social media. Headliners included Fatboy Slim and Idris Elba, as the up-for-it crowd danced to some of the best house and leftfield tracks around. The Ai R8 server…
European stage automation specialist VisionLite invested in a new Kinesys Apex hoist system – comprising 21 VisionLite Apex motors – plus Kinesys K2 control to help facilitate its busy summer work schedule. The new VisionLite Apex products went straight out on the Resistance summer season in Ibiza where they helped create a spectacular production design for the popular club experience. Resistance embraced its underground roots in curating a serious line-up of superlative techno, led by iconic artists like Carl Cox and Sasha & John Digweed in the 10,000 capacity Privilege venue, running for nine incendiary events over the summer. The Resistance creative…
