https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi270_digitallr/86 Ultra Miami returned to Bayfront Park over the final weekend of March, following a move to Virginia Key Beach in 2019 and a COVID-19 enforced hiatus in 2020 and 2021. The festival welcomed around 165,000 people over three days, with attendees drawn to a line-up featuring some of the biggest names in electronic music. Funktion-One Vero made its Resistance debut at Ultra in 2016 when it was deployed on the Arcadia Spider. The following year, Vero became Resistance’s sound system of choice for its main stage: the Carl Cox MegaStructure – the same year the DJ and producer became…
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https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi270_digitallr/84 Located in the centre of Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia, Festival de les Arts’ seventh edition saw 28 artists from the Spanish indie music scene, such as Love of Lesbian, La M.O.D.A, Lori Meyers, Miss Caffeina, and Dorian, among others, perform in front of over 40,000 live music fans. Through several rental and lifter companies, such as Babalu Group, FENIX Stage products were present at two stages, a catering zone, one VIP area, commercial stands and a space for children. “With more than 60 distributors across five continents, every month of the year we have…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi270_digitallr/82 Tante Mia Tanzt is the largest open-air electronic music event in northwestern Germany. This year, the event attracted around 20,000 visitors to the Stoppelmarkt grounds in Vechta, Lower Saxony with DJ acts such as Don Diablo, Felix Jaehn, Lost Frequencies, Monika Kruse and Wildstylez. Eventures was responsible for the event technical equipment at the open-air festival. Lighting Designer, Milan Spira relied entirely on moving lights from Cameo for the electro spectacle, including the new Cameo OTOS H5 hybrid beam spot wash fixture. To enhance the flair of an EDM festival and to digitise the overall image, Spira and VJ/visual…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi270_digitallr/80 Twenty-five years since Liam Gallagher’s last big shows at Knebworth, the former Oasis front-man returned with the anthemic Rock N Roll Star, with a set combining ‘classics’ blended with material from his new album, C’mon You Know. Technical Production Manager, Dick Tee was employed by Festival Republic to support the delivery of the show. Surprisingly, given his vast experience, his only previous employment at this site of so many iconic concerts was a classical orchestra on the lawn of Knebworth House, two decades ago. As ever, Melvin Benn, Festival Republic Managing Director, was attentive to all elements of this…
After a two-year shutdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Primo Maggio, a traditional concert to celebrate Labour Day in Italy, returned to Rome’s Piazza San Giovanni with some 60,000 people in attendance. Known locally as ‘concertone’, the musical event was organised by Italy’s trade unions and attracts established acts alongside rising stars from the Italian music industry. It is used as a platform to promote workers’ rights, confronting issues ranging from discrimination against women to safety in the workplace. This year, the implementation of the K-array sound reinforcement system and production for the event was entrusted to iCompany, whose slogan…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi270_digitallr/32 Jack White’s latest live campaign, The Supply Chain Issues Tour, celebrates the release of two new records, Fear of the Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive. Embarking on his third collaboration with the former White Stripes singer, Lüz Studio Creative Director and the tour’s Production and Lighting Designer, Matthieu Larivée enlisted the support of audio, lighting and video vendor, Solotech, to transform an ambitious design from the sketchpad to stages across the globe. “Jack White concerts are unique because there is no set list, everything is live, with over 100 songs for him to perform,” Larivée began. “Songs are either…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi270_digitallr/38 With the world of live events returning to the masses, Irish three-piece The Script set out on the road with a brand-new production design, courtesy of MIRRAD. The dynamic show boasted a huge amount of LED surfaces as well as automated video cubes hung above the band. MIRRAD’s Jamie Thompson and David Cohen picked up the story: “This tour was a ‘greatest hits’ campaign, drawing inspiration from the band’s past five tours,” began Thompson. “Normally, we have something to draw inspiration from, such as album artwork, but that was not the case this time.” MIRRAD pitched three concepts to…
You can draw a line through the events industry between those who see Web 3 reshaping the business beyond all recognition and the sceptics who don’t see the potential impact. Web 3 is the most recent iteration of the World Wide Web, which incorporates the concept of decentralisation, in the form of distributed ledger such as blockchain technologies, and token-based economics. Web 3 technology has the potential to eliminate several of our industry’s greatest challenges, from seasonal cash flow dependence to ticket touts. The democratisation, independence and security associated with blockchain protocols will be invaluable characteristics for the bold, creative,…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi270_digitallr/98 “If you had told Richard [Young] and I in 2012 that Load Cell Rental would be working for tours across the globe and be one of the biggest dedicated weighing services providers in the music industry, I doubt we would have believed it,” laughed Load Cell Rental’s Colin Luke, reflecting on 10 years of the company providing an invaluable service to the live entertainment industry. Luke recalled how the idea for Load Cell Rental came about with the late Richard Young – who was just as well known for working with the likes of Radiohead, P!nk and Adele –…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi270_digitallr/108 The continuous evolution of the live events market has made the elements of collaboration and flexibility more crucial than ever before. There’s a wide range of creatives involved in the event design process these days, bringing lighting, visual, audio, and other departments together. Chances are, you’re already experiencing this delicate dance of synchronisation between your team and fellow entertainment professionals. How can you best meld together the various departments and talents involved (from near and far) in the live events production process? Fortunately, as live events have evolved, so have the tools and software platforms used to design and…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi270_digitallr/34 Equipped with a dance floor, London’s Roundhouse proved to be an ideal space for Max Cooper’s latest live project. Providing wrap-around technology and semi-transparent screens, Video Illusions helped engulf the London-based producer and around 1,700 electronica and techno fans in an unforgettable multisensory experience. “This is something I’ve been developing for six years,” Cooper began, explaining his hands-on approach. “I have always loved the visual aspect of live shows and I wanted to control my visuals live, which are inspired by past albums and collaborations.” Immersion plays a big part in Cooper’s musical and visual approach. “I always try…
Simple Minds’ latest live campaign, 40 Years of Hits Tour, sees the Glasgow-formed band traverse the globe with over 80 shows in more than 18 countries – including a raucous homecoming show at OVO Hydro – at a time when global touring is generally considered uncharted terrain. With four decades worth of material to share with reinvigorated audiences, each show was built on the ingenuity and familiarity of a tight-knit crew navigating a COVID-19 secure pathway through the ever-changing goalposts, legislation and legal hurdles involved in assembling and touring a show. Due to obligatory rescheduling and date shuffling associated with…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi270_digitallr/24 With sustainability now higher on the agenda than ever before and more artists aiming to be more environmentally conscious while out on the road, it has fallen to the live events industry to create solutions to lower the carbon footprint for live entertainment, with everyone from manufacturers to rental companies and touring teams coming up with innovative initiatives to do just that. Having seen and reported on many of these measures in action over the past year, TPi introduced a new category for the TPi Awards 2022 to recognise the important work being carried out in this area: The…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi270_digitallr/104 Almost a year into the first lockdown, with the events industry still reeling, a group of events professionals banded together to try and ride out the storm of COVID-19. The result was Silverbox; a brand new turnkey technical production and rental house for the events industry that also offers a large multi-use studio space for everything from tour pre-production to film and livestream. Walking TPi through the history of the company was Jamie Webb, one of the company’s first employees. “Many of us that started Silverbox were from smaller businesses that most likely would not have survived COVID-19,”…
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpi270_digitallr/102 The brainchild of several artists along with numerous notable names within the live events space, 3T was created as a response to the lack of diversity within the live events sector. The result was a free, practical training course for people from underrepresented gender and ethnic groups, equipping them with the skills and connections to begin careers as touring technicians. With the success of the first year, the 3T team was keen to do it all again with a fresh intake of students and even several new course leaders to share their wealth of knowledge. Like the last edition…
Four years, one global pandemic and a redesign in the making, Craig David, TS5 and their production crew descended on UK arenas to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his landmark debut album, Born To Do It with the long-anticipated Hold That Thought Tour. With two decades of genre-spanning discography condensed into two hours of stage time, audiences were treated to a narrative-led production design boasting clean edges, bright neon colours, a giant inflatable moon, palm trees, sand dunes, as well as a tight-knit band and halftime TS5 set. With a year’s notice to put together this ambitious touring campaign in…
Who would have thought back in February 2020 that our annual soiree would be one of the last times that the industry would be able to gather under one roof for more than two years? Despite COVID-19 being a concern, nobody was to know how devastating it would end up being for the events sector. After such a trying two-and-a-half years, the TPi Awards 2022 saw more than 1,200 of industry’s best and brightest return to Battersea’s Evolution London to socialise face-to-face and celebrate the survival of the sector. Comic Suzi Ruffel took the event in her stride as well…
Back in 2018 when TPi last covered Ed Sheeran on his record breaking ÷ [Divide] Tour, it seemed to be somewhat of a new chapter for the singer-songwriter. Having ascended the ranks of academies and arenas throughout the 2010s armed with just a guitar and a loop pedal, Sheeran was suddenly breaking attendance records at stadium level with an iconic production that never shied away from the fact that this was one man on stage – no backing band or dancers but one person rewriting the record books. After such a career high, what is the next step? Well, there’s…
