Clair Global, Eighth Day Sound and Britannia Row Productions were proud to supply audio equipment and crew for Scottish singer / songwriter Paolo Nutini, as he embarked on a sell-out UK tour; his first in five years. The tour was handled by Clair Global Account Manager, Andy Walker, with assistance from Brit Row’s Tom Brown. The team, based in Twickenham, facilitated the delivery of a d&b audiotechnik KSL PA system from Eighth Day Sound’s inventory, as well as Solid State Logic and Allen & Heath desks, a host of outboard gear, skilled touring personnel, operations and tour support. “The KSL…
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Bryan’s tour kicked off last June in Charleston, West Virginia and will conclude at the end of October in Jacksonville, Florida. Raised Up Right is in support of his brand new album, Born Here, Live Here, Die Here. Elite Multimedia in Nashville, the lighting, video and LED systems vendor for the tour, supplied a large complement of grandMA3 gear to Justin Kitchenman of Nashville-based Align Design Group who serves as Lighting and Production Designer for the tour and Lighting Director for the shows. Elite furnished two grandMA3 full-size consoles, a grandMA3 light, three grandMA3 processing unit XLs, four grandMA3 8Port…
Lightware Visual Engineering has announced the creation of a new Business Development team within the company, with new roles within it to maximise its impact across several markets. The team will be led by Szabolcs Turi, Executive Director, Business Development from the company’s Budapest HQ and also features Clint Hoffman, Siegfried Hermann, and Murugan Paramasivam, Vice Presidents of Business Development in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC respectively. This triumvirate will collectively head up Lightware’s efforts to deepen engagement with the enterprise market around the world, working with global partners and individual companies to build on Lightware’s already notable successes in…
Women In Live Music has crowned this year’s WILM Awards (WILMA) winners, with sound engineer, Ira Lobanok of Lviv, Ukrain taking home the WILMA Outstanding Award for her charity work with Musicians Defend Ukraine. The WILM Awards is an opportunity to highlight and pay tribute to the work of women in the live music industry, as well as providing a platform for the next generation of winners. This year, 197 names made the shortlist across 33 different categories covering production, logistics and the technical fields backstage this year. Almost 8,000 votes were registered with nominations for over 300 female crew members throughout…
Vectorworks has crowned this year’s Vectorworks Design Scholarship winners, with Michelle Wanitzek taking home the coveted Richard Diehl Award. With over 1,000 submissions, scholarships were awarded to 30 students for 22 projects in the architecture, interior design, landscape and entertainment industries. This year’s winning project, “Nomad Coworking,” submitted by Wanitzek for her master’s thesis at the University of Wismar, features a coworking space and coffeeshop in a listed monument — a site identified for its architectural or historical significance — and focuses on the increasing importance of alternative and flexible workspaces. The design tackled a challenging task — working with…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi271_digitallr/76 Held on 6 December at Manchester’s Escape to Freight Island, the long-anticipated return of the UK Festival Awards provided an ideal opportunity for festival organisers, suppliers and the wider live entertainment industry to get together and reflect on the past season while looking forward to the next. The awards are decided by a combination of fan votes and judges’ verdicts in categories including Best Major Festival, Outstanding Contribution and, for this year only, the Positively Perfect Pivot Award – which acknowledges the festival business that applied its skills to alternative activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exit Festival/NFT-TiX, The Innovation…
Robbie Williams’ recent tour, in support of his latest album, XXV, sees 25 years of hits re-worked and orchestrated by the Metropole Orkest. Brit Row once again delivered consistent quality across equipment and crew for the British pop star. “Brit Row is absolutely fantastic,” FOH Engineer, Joe Harling, enthused. “These are difficult times, but we’ve received everything we’ve asked for and a team of professional crew at the top of their game. I couldn’t be happier!” To cover the full spectrum of the show’s genre-bending journey through the last two and a half decades, Harling needed a versatile and robust…
CAST has appointed Stuart Green as the company’s new CEO. Green will succeed CAST’s founder and CEO, Gil Densham. Densham, who’s been CAST’s CEO for 28 years, is retiring, as well as moving to an advisory role within the company. “I am thrilled to become the new CEO of CAST and to oversee the exciting innovative progress we anticipate in the years to come,” said Green. “I, however, feel that this is the right time to express on behalf of all at CAST and within the community our sincere gratitude to Gil for his industry-changing contributions, being visionary, and his…
IPS has announced a management restructure to support the growing list of clients and projects on the horizon. Karl Saunders has taken on the role of Managing Director, while owner James Mason has become Key Account Director. Supported by Andy Marshall (Logistics & Facilities), Gilles Quentel (Warehouse operations), Ian Brown (Head of Technical) and Tom Warden (H&S and Marketing), this will form the IPS senior management team, which will allow the company to better scale to the continually expanding operation. Ryan Bellamy is now formally continuing to support Gilles in his role as Assistant Warehouse Manager, and Head of Lighting Steven…
Slipknot are known for some of the most intense live shows on some of the biggest stages on the planet. Case in point, the GRAMMY Award-winning, and multi-platinum-selling group has spent much of the past two years on their ongoing Knotfest Roadshow, which recently wrapped up its third post-pandemic tour sweep of North America. To properly give the band its visceral sonic wallop live, sound reinforcement provider Eighth Day Sound, a Clair Global company, has been supplying the tour legs with a robust K Series loudspeaker package from L-Acoustics. Wrangling the PA for the group are FOH engineer Bob Strakele…
Follow-Me has entered into a new partnership with Italian distribution company Molpass for stocking, sales, marketing, training and support of the Follow-Me remote follow-spot and performer tracking system, on the Italian market. Active since 1995, Molpass has always been committed to finding new effective solutions for the needs of its customers, combining passion, efficiency and quality. Paolo Albani, Commercial Director of Molpass, can’t wait to start working with this new team: “We have already been collaborating with great quality brands for some time and, adding Follow-Me among these, is a big step and a great opportunity to offer to our…
Magmatic Effects Magma Fog 1500 IP is a durable, water-based fog machine with advanced technology and IP65 rating that provides a high output fog for professional applications of all types. Magma Fog 1500 IP is a tough, all-purpose fogger whose powerful output can be used to add atmosphere to stages in busy venues and demanding rental projects alike, indoors or out. A thermally-protected 1500W heat exchanger produces an impressive output of 60,000 CFM (cu ft/min) and when operating at 100%, the unit can shoot a 40-second burst of all-enveloping dense fog. The unit is hard to break but easy to…
Robe lighting embraced the 2022 LDI expo in Las Vegas with a dynamic booth design, a live show, and a lineup of new and innovative products. “It was wonderful to be back together with everyone and catch up face-to-face with so many colleagues and friends to celebrate the entertainment technology and design community we all love so much!” stated Lorienn Cochenour, Robe lighting CEO. Robe’s six-minute timecoded ‘All Environments’ live show featured multi-layered messaging as well as illustrating the robust weatherisation and creative effects of Robe’s new iSeries luminaires, including the iFORTE, iSpiider, and iBeam250. The all-new iFORTE and TX1…
Indie rock bands, Joywave and I Don’t Know How but They Found Me (iDKHOW for short) recently completed a 23-date co-headlining tour of the USA backed by an LED video wall system comprised of ADJ Vision Series panels. The playback system featured a large central rectangular screen, flanked on both sides by two smaller vertical columns of panels. This allowed the performance space to be encompassed by video graphics, which were utilised extensively by both bands to create a wide variety of visual effects that enhanced the aesthetic of their performances. The Welcome To Hellvetica tour ran for exactly a…
The live visuals for Lewis Capaldi’s recent tour relied on a Blackmagic Design multicamera production workflow centered around the ATEM Constellation 8K live production switcher. Promoting his debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, the two dates at London’s O2 arena sold out in a single second online. The performances featured an extraordinarily complex staging concept, including one segment where Capaldi sat at a piano on top of a large LED screen. “It was an incredibly ambitious setup for just two nights,” admitted Rhodri Shaw, Director of Live Events at 4Wall Europe, the video supplier for the event. “We had a package of eight cameras, all of which…
You might think that, in 2022, shouting about your sustainability credentials as loud as you possibly can is a no-brainer. However, I’ve found people sometimes still have misconceptions about solar power, and what can be achieved with it. It’s for that reason that I don’t always lead with solar: I don’t want The Stage Bus to be ‘the green choice’ for event entertainment, I want us to be the best choice for event entertainment full stop, which just so happens to be better for the environment. Power consumption is a huge factor in measuring the sustainability of any event. Is…
If you talk to anybody in the production industry about their experience of the summer of ’22, you can be pretty sure that you’ll be met with a pained expression and a stream of expletives followed by words like mad, nuts, mental, ridiculous, crazy, and bonkers. It was for sure one of the busiest anyone can recall, as the UK events scene put the hammer down trying to make up for lost revenue from the previous two years of upheaval. Thankfully, the weather was pretty fabulous throughout – the concept of a summer this busy with mud and rain doesn’t…
On 27 March 2022, after almost four years away, Hardwell returned to Miami’s Ultra Music Festival to perform a surprise closing set. Armed with a new 14 track artist album, Rebels Never Die, released on Revealed Recordings and the announcement of a follow-up world tour, Hardwell ignited the attention of fans around the globe. Rebels Never Die represents a critical point in the musical shift for one of electronic music’s biggest known stars. Following a landmark show at San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, TPi sat down with High Scream and Backbone International – virtually – to reflect on staging…
