TPi speaks to Bose Professional’s new EMEA Sales Manager for Rental and Touring to discuss what the future holds for the company’s latest venture. Can you detail your previous experience in the rental and touring market? “Back in the early ‘80s, I started my career as a project engineer at UK loudspeaker manufacturer Court Acoustics. Like Britannia Row Productions, Court was part-owned by Pink Floyd and as a result, were both located in the same Islington building. That gave me the best education – from installing the Camden Palace sound system to being thrown in at the deep end with…
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TPi’s Stew Hume visited Arena Birmingham to bear witness to Universal’s Fast and Furious Live; an experience that promised to bring all of the adrenaline-fuelled stunts from the street racing saga to venues up and down the UK. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijun18_digitallr/54 Photos: Dan Bermingham-Shaw (Fast Live) www.fastandfuriouslive.com www.lloydlivedesign.com www.katedawkinsstudio.com www.dandelion-burdock.com www.brunopoet.co.uk www.colinpinksound.com www.brilliantstages.com www.stageone.co.uk www.prg.com www.britanniarow.com www.q-sfx.com www.feedingthefish.com www.gac.com www.rockpooltourcatering.com
Formed in 2013, Blossoms – comprising band members Tom Ogden (lead vocals, guitar), Charlie Salt (bass, synthesizer, BV), Josh Dewhurst (lead guitar, percussion), Joe Donovan (drums) and Myles Kellock (keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals) – have come a long way quickly. Their relative inexperience as a group attracted a crew, which could grow with them. TPi hears a story of how team Blossoms came into bloom. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijun18_digitallr/44 Photos: TPi & Jack Kirwin www.blossomsband.co.uk www.mangatacollective.co www.adlib.co.uk www.dbnaudile.co.uk www.vansforbands.co.uk www.flybynite.co.uk www.rockitcargo.com www.appointmentgroup.com
The Eurovision Song Contest 2018 steamed into Lisbon at the start of April and took up residence in the east of the city for around 6 weeks. When it comes to live productions, it stands alone in its own special genre. Michael Nicholson travelled to Portugal to catch up with the people who make it happen. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijun18_digitallr/28 Photos: Ralph Larmann www.ampco-flashlight.nl www.pixellight.pt www.bigrig-berlin.de www.auditiv.com www.agoraaq.it www.sennheiser.com www.riedel.net www.thepowershop.eu www.lusopirotecnia.com www.wicreations.com www.lightinitiative.com
TPi’s Stew Hume eagerly paid a visit to Stuttgart’s Zum Wasenwirt, for the region’s biannual beer festival, to cheers with the team from Skyeline-Live to discuss its latest TW AUDiO set up for the event. And to sample the goods, of course… https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijun18_digitallr/24 Photos: TPi and Alexander Hoffmann www.skyeline-live.de www.twaudio.de
The companies joined forces for a day dedicated to the Allen & Heath dLive Mixing Systems. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijun18_digitallr/16 www.samgrady.co.uk www.f1soundcoltd.com www.allen-heath.com www.audio-technica.com www.soulsound.co.uk/tutors/darryn-de-la-soul
April saw audio-visual expert Creative Technology open its doors to clients, students and the press to showcase the latest technological innovations it, and some of its partners had to o er the live events industry. TPi was on site to get a personal tour from Graham Miller, Head of Music and Entertainment and speak to Marketing and Communications Executive, Alana Coyne. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijun18_digitallr/20 Photos: Creative Technology www.ct-group.com
Oversized flowers bloom, waiflike stalactites fly, and the leaded weight of “adult” concerns lifts like the morning mist in the final third of The Beginners. A play-within-a-play featuring 4-10-year-olds, this memorable passage opens a window into the boundless and colourful imaginative powers of childhood. Adding impact to this wondrous play, and making its fantastical characters come to life even more vividly during a production at London’s Unicorn Theatre, is the rich assortment of colours created by Zoe Spurr, using CHAUVET Professional COLORado 2 Zoom Tour fixtures. “The COLORados was a great choice for The Beginners,” said Spurr. “They helped me add a different…
Portman Lights has recruited Radek Bogusz, an experienced salesman to the position of Sales and Marketing Director. Dominik Zimakowski, CEO at Portman Lights, commented: “We are sure that this will help us push growth and allow our customers and distributors to get the highest level of support they are used to and deserve,” he continued, “Portman is a creative and disruptive brand, and we are reaching for creative and free-thinking people. Radek is a great talent, and shares our vision, energy and drive, that will help us grow.” Radek has been working for AVL industry for over 15 years, working…
Flightcase Warehouse, designer and manufacturer of protective solutions to global brands in live entertainment, AV, lighting, rigging and staging has announced that it has acquired Production Park-based heavy-duty case business Box Clever Cases. The acquisition is effective from the 4 June 2018 and will see Flightcase Warehouse expand with a second site off of Production Park, Wakefield, and all manufacturing being transferred to their Head Office site in Tamworth, Staffs. Box Clever Cases is a resident company at Production Park, which is a unique community of studios and businesses that unites technology, creative spaces and education. The location is hailed…
Integration plug-in enables Q-SYS users to manage L-Acoustics market-leading LA4X and LA12X Amplified Controllers via the Q-SYS Platform. L-Acoustics proudly announces integration between the L-Acoustics LA4X and LA12X amplified controllers and the Q-SYS Platform from QSC. This integration allows users to easily control and monitor the LA4X and LA12X through Q-SYS. Now system designers can architect high-performing and fully scalable media-rich environments using the familiar and intuitive Q-SYS Designer Software and native user control interfaces while offering the unmatched audio quality delivered by L-Acoustics sound reinforcement systems. Whether addressing the demands of conference facilities, houses of worship, theatres, or educational…
Swedish hip-hop group, Hov1 recently played a series of mid-sized domestic venues of around 3,000 capacity on their first Until Next Time production tour. Jakob Larsson was responsible for the lighting, drawing heavily on industry-leading LED fixtures from German Light Products — a brand that has been a feature of his toolkit for many years. Taking advantage of the huge advances in technology the LD was able to requisition 22 of the manufacturer’s ground-breaking GLP JDC1 hybrid strobe from rental company Bright Group Sweden, along with 80 GLP X4 atoms and 24 GLP X4 Bar 20. Larsson explained his design…
To augment the growth of Litec around the world, Louis Teo has been appointed Sales Director for the Asia Pacific region. Teo is a welcome addition to the Litec sales team, having more than two decades of experience in the pro audio, lighting, staging and special effects sectors. He has witnessed first hand the development of many brands within the APAC countries and has intimate knowledge of how entertainment industry products are developed and manufactured. He brings a profound understanding of the APAC market, and a deep well of practical experience with industry products, that will serve the ever-expanding needs…
Legrand unveiled a new Commercial AV go-to-market strategy to better serve its U.S. commercial integrator customers through the recently formed Legrand AV Division. This new launch, scheduled for September 1, 2018, plays to the strengths of its Commercial AV brands while leveraging an expanded sales team structure to help customers solve their AV integration challenges. At launch, customers will benefit from one go-to resource for all brands backed by a strong team of product specialists, additional inside sales support, channel experts and a group dedicated to driving sales leads to our customers. It also allows customers to leverage the collective…
Long considered one of the mountaintops of North America’s acoustic music festival season, Wilkesboro, North Carolina’s MerleFest recently celebrated its 31st annual event, which was held over 4 days in late April 2018. Featuring the best in country, bluegrass and Americana, this year’s festival hosted performances by the Steep Canyon Rangers and Friends with special guest Steve Martin, Buddy Miller and the North Mississippi All-stars, Kris Kristofferson, Jamey Johnson, The Mavericks, Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, Rodney Crowell, Paul Thorn & Band, The Blind Boys of Alabama & The McCrary Sisters, and many more roots acts. And as has been…
A total of 17 Robe RoboSpot Base Stations controlling tracking Robe BMFL fixtures provided a comprehensive remote follow spotting solution for production LD Jerry Appelt at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. Robe’s RoboSpot system was specified onto the show by Appelt and his gaffer Matthias Rau, and used extensively throughout the event’s nail-biting final and two live semi-finals, which were beamed and streamed live via host broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), reaching a final worldwide audience of around 200 million. Once again, the technical implementation for this, the 63rd ESC, took visual imagination to new levels of ambition…
New Zealand professional audio distribution and solutions company JANDS NZ has introduced a new brand identity and rebranded to JPRO. “One thing that’s constant in the vibrant audio industry is change,” says JPRO Managing Director Bruce Gray. “We are proud of our heritage. For 30 years JANDS NZ has led the way in New Zealand, supporting musicians, businesses and institutions with their commercial and professional audio requirements. We have stayed on top of the changes as new products and platforms arrive in the market, grown and evolved with the times. Now we’re embarking on another change, as we leave behind…
QSC Systems appoints Audiologic as its exclusive UK and Ireland distribution channel. QSC is a globally recognised leader in the design and manufacture of audio/video and control (AV&C) system solutions. As a designated Industry Market Partner, as well as distributing the QSC Systems portfolio, Audiologic will offer technical services such as system design and validation, commissioning support and warranty services. The Harlow based company will also offer QSC product training at its recently opened education facility – Learning Space. Sales and Marketing Director at Audiologic commented: “We are proud to serve as the exclusive UK distribution channel for QSC Systems.…
