On 13 August 2018, Chauvet Professional will sponsor a behind the scenes tour of the Abandoman’s FOH and lighting rig, which includes Chauvet Professional Maverick MK Pyxis and Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures supplied by SLX. Taking place at the Fringe Festival’s Underbelly at George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, the open day event will also feature a lively chat with Abandoman’s Lighting Designer Robbie Butler, ALD’s Tom Wilkes, Underbelly’s head of lighting Cat Neufeld, and a special guest on the inspiration and techniques behind successful improvisational lighting. Upon completion of the interview and subsequent tour, Wilkes will be donning his Chauvet Professional hat…
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Britannia Row Productions serviced Harry Styles 2018 tour of his eponymous first solo album while simultaneously stepping into the arena market. “Last year we started off playing smaller venues, theatres mainly. Recently we’ve scaled up the production into arenas,” confirmed his Live Sound Engineer, Karl ‘Snake’ Newton. “That’s a pattern we’ve followed worldwide. It’s a fascinating tour, for someone who has experienced the big time Harry remains very grounded; he cares about his craft and works hard on his performance.” For Newton continuity has been important. “The tour has been serviced by Britannia Row Productions through every country we’ve visited,…
For the 2018 edition of Electrobeach, which took place from 12-14 July, organisers broke new ground by employing Funktion-One sound systems on all 4 of its stages. Held in the port town of Barcarès on France’s southern coast, Electrobeach is the country’s largest electronic music festival, featuring more than 100 DJs and hosting around 100,000 people over its 3 days. To meet the needs of such a large-scale event, Funktion-One specialists from across France and beyond came together to work on the festival. Heading up the project was Concept Group, based in the south of France, who in turn brought…
The ADJ team will be at the annual DJ Expo event in force; showcasing a range of the company’s latest products, including fixtures ideal for use by mobile entertainers. Taking place in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the annual DJ Expo event brings together DJs and venue owners from across the US to check out the latest gear, network with peers and learn from a series of seminars, panels and workshops. “DJ Expo is an exciting event that we always enjoy attending,” commented ADJ USA’s National Sales Manager, Alfred Gonzales. “It’s visited by lots of mobile entertainers and small production company…
The Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) has revealed the highly anticipated Concert Touring & Events shortlist for the 2018 Awards, as decided by the expert panel of judges. 2018’s judging panel is led by chair Jess Allan, and consists of LSi editor Claire Beeson, TPi editor Kelly Murray, director of 18 Degrees architectural lighting Christopher Knowlton, head of lighting design at creative agency Imagination, Jonny Milmer, and Account Manager at Colour Sound Experiment Jo Bierne. The Knight of Illumination Award for Arena, sponsored by GLP German Light Products Cate Carter for Elbow Tim Routledge for Sam Smith Rob Sinclair for…
eps accompanied a successful series of dates throughout Harry Styles’ first solo tour Harry Styles – Live on Tour in Europe and North America; providing infrastructure support, successfully introducing its latest development, the “flat-foot”-GIGS stage barrier. To meet the touring challenges of one of the world’s most famous singers, the production team hired eps to provide the infrastructure support. On this occasion, eps’ new innovation, the “flat-foot”-GIGS stage barrier, was part of the tour package for the first time. Compared to the classic GIGS stage barrier, the particularly flat base offers more security for artists and the audience as well as…
One of the most unusual deployments of RCF’s active HDL6-A line array has taken place at Sage Gateshead to coincide with the Great Exhibition of the North. The installation of 40 compact elements was sensitively carried out by RCF partner Nitelites, to contour the curvilinear glass and stainless superstructure of the magnificent building. Its purpose is to reproduce a unique and newly commissioned work by Sheffield-based ‘sound sculptor’ Mark Fell, aptly called Protomusic #1. The installation was carried over the course of 3 days and involves bespoke mounting bracketry; manufactured in house by Nitelites, enabling each speaker to be optimised…
London-based PA rental company Capital Sound Hire has confirmed its acquisition by SSE Audio Group, following a period where the businesses have been aligned through a strategic partnership. Capital Sound has supplied sound equipment for the touring and festival market for over 35 years. In recent times, the company, has increased the freedom of choice for its clients, adding both d&b audiotechnik and Outline systems to the Martin Audio and Meyer Sound systems that have been the foundations of the company’s hire stock for so many years. SSE Audio Group is the UK’s largest audio services group, providing PA hire…
K-array technology was deployed across 2 of Rome’s most famous landmarks to provide the crystal clear audio required for one of the year’s most exclusive events. TPi’s Ste Durham was on site to speak with the people behind this historic undertaking. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijul18_digitallr/16 Photos: Nicolò Nisi & TPi www.cineconcerts.com www.planetservicesm.eu www.k-array.com/en
In early March 2018, Simply Three performed at Arizona’s Mesa Center, their sprightly and delightfully diverse mix of music supported by an equally nimble and very colourful lightshow designed by Erik Parker of Chris Lisle Design that used 46 Chauvet Professional fixtures, supplied by Creative Backstage. Parker’s rig was anchored by a total of 12 Chuavet Maverick MK2 Spot fixtures, 34 Chauvet Rogue R2 Wash units and 8 Chauvet STRIKE 4 multi formatted lights. These, along with a collection of beam fixtures, were flown on an X-shaped truss configuration over the middle of the stage and a diagonal truss unit…
Veteran PVRIS Front of House Engineer and Production Manager Connor Hawkins selected the Allen & Heath dLive Digital Mixing System to support the band on the road after an extensive series of trials with consoles from multiple manufacturers. Hawkins said: “With only 2 or 3 days rehearsal I was able to get fully up and running and comfortable with dLive. It reminds me of the stuff that I like about other desks, but somehow it is even better. One of the huge dLive ‘wins’ is the flexibility of putting anything anywhere at any time. It was easy to move right…
Shure, manufacturer of innovative wireless audio technologies supports multi-million selling, Classic Brit award-winning artist, Katherine Jenkins OBE as she returns to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall for the Classical Brit awards. Mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins OBE performed a song from the Greatest showman at 2018’s Classical Brit awards, a ceremony that has always been a special and memorable event for the classical crossover singer. In May 2018, Phil Wright Sound turned to Axient Digital for Katherine Jenkins, they needed a system which would be future proof and could cope with the range of a professional classical crossover singer without…
Placebo’s epic new show is touring European festivals with a revamped rock ‘n’ roll lighting design by Will Kinnaird, who’s armed with an Avolites Arena running Titan V11. Kinnaird has pimped Placebo’s lighting for festival season, with recent shows having been more video-based. “My lighting brief was ‘big rock ‘n’ roll’, so that’s what we’re delivering,” said Kinnaird, from WK Design. “We’re playing various festivals across Europe, all of which obviously have very different house rigs ranging from 40 to 240 fixtures. Therefore, I needed a festival-ready console with live control acreage. The Avolites Arena is a big, powerful console…
Audio Systems Engineer Charlie Albin and FOH Engineer Chris Marsh opted for JoeCo BLACKBOX BBR64-MADI for sell-out Divide tour at Wembley Stadium. Having circled the globe for more than a year, Ed Sheeran’s Divide tour recently arrived at London’s Wembley Stadium for a string of critically praised homecoming shows. Performing before sold-out, 80,000-strong crowds, Sheeran once again proved that one man and a guitar are more than enough to fill a stadium, while Audio Systems Engineer, Charlie Albin, and Front of House Engineer, Chris Marsh, ensured the technical production was faultless. Helping them to do so was a more recent…
Technical production company 4light Showprojects chose different CLF lighting fixtures for the 10thedition of 7th Sunday Festival in Erp (NL). Light Designer Joep van Bree (4Light Showprojects) included 50 CLF Aorun beams in his design to outline the impressive stage. The fixtures were selected because of its impressive output, fast movements, big lens design and very smooth frost effect. To illuminate decorative items, the CLF Ares was used. Most of them were placed behind plexiglass windows. 4Light Showprojects uses the Ares during the majority of their events, like Untold Festival in Romania and Daydream Festival in the Netherlands. 4Light Showprojects owner…
Elation Professional has embarked on a new chapter in its evolution with launch of Obsidian Control Systems, an accessible line of advanced yet intuitive lighting control products. Following completion in late March of the acquisition of the M-Series range of entertainment lighting controllers from Harman Professional Solutions, Elation Professional received valuable feedback from the thousands of M-Series users worldwide. “Based on this feedback, we sought to create a dedicated company and brand focus for the continued development and evolution of the product series,” states Elation Sales & Marketing Director Eric Loader. “The Obsidian development will continue to be focused on…
Port Lighting worked closely with the TEDxCambridge organiser in May 2018 to integrate lighting into a custom-designed set, which featured a very specific lighting requirement that was satisfied by 7 American DJ Vizi Beam RXONE fixtures. Established over 30 years ago in 1985, which coincidentally is the same year that ADJ was founded, Port Lighting is a diverse entertainment lighting company based in Seabrook, New Hampshire, right on the border with Massachusetts. It has two key divisions, one offering production services for all types of events and the other providing permanent rigging, draping and lighting equipment, as well as, architectural…
Signify has announced that the Medieval Times attraction in Buena Park, California has upgraded its show lighting with the latest LED fixtures from the Philips Vari-Lite and Showline brands. The new lighting choice will eventually bring improved performance and power efficiency to all ten Medieval Times venues in North America. Lighting Designer Marty Huntoon of installer All Pro Integrated Systems specified the new Philips Vari-Lite VLZ Profile, plus the SL Punchlite 220 and SL LEDSPOT 300 fixtures from the Showline range. “The SL Punchlite 220 was a simple replacement for the PAR lanterns, giving huge improvements in output, power efficiency, programming…
