The Sama-Sama Live interactive park in Madrid is a revolutionary new concept in the entertainment industry. The park offers the audience an opportunity to participate and feel how it is to be a performer. Roy Ofer, founder and CEO of Sama-Sama, had the vision to create a fun and loose way to reach out to the visitors inner artist and connect them with their own creativity to the core of this new experience. Skip Sherman, chief creative officer of Sama-Sama describes it as “the evolution of entertainment. This journey takes you from your passive seat and lets you jump into…
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Superstar DJ Eric Prydz premiered his EPIC 4.0 shows in America this spring, backed up by his ‘dream team’ of long-time entertainment technology collaborators, RES, to create a colossal visual show driven by Avolites Ai S4 servers. Playing a total of seven shows spread across New York’s Terminal 5, LA’s Hollywood Palladium and the San Francisco Armory, EPIC 4.0 was the fourth incarnation of Prydz’s now legendary assault on the senses. They mix, as online electronic music magazine Resident Advisor states, ‘an arsenal of big room tunes with stadium rock-level visuals’. The behind the scenes team is comprised of Mark…
RCF UK will present several of the innovations that lit up the company’s international stand at Frankfurt Prolight+Sound recently, when they arrive at this year’s PLASA Focus (Leeds Royal Armouries Museum, May 10-11).Occupying stand #N-D20 the showcase will include the following: HDL6-A: The new mini-format entry to the composite D-Line line array series, this active 2-way powered system is partnered by the HDL6-AS sub. Housing double 6.5” bass drivers the HDL6-A is run in combination with 1.75” compression driver with a 2” voice coil on a 10° x 100° waveguide. The HDL 6-AS is a 12” bass reflex enclosure, designed…
Irish rental and production specialist Just Lite delivered full technical production, including lighting equipment and design, for BAMMA 24 working for production manager Sven Knight and his team from KRS. The mixed martial arts tournament was staged in 3 Arena, Dublin, and broadcast live on Spike (UK) Channel 5 in the UK and Ireland, ESPN 3 in the US plus numerous others worldwide as well as streamed live via main sponsor Lonsdale’s Facebook. The Just Lite team, led by John McGuinness and working closely with LD Andrew Harris had to light the action for camera as well as the charged…
Iconic British metal band Iron Maiden is relying on a Meyer Sound LEO Family loudspeaker system to power its successful “Book of Souls World Tour.” The band’s high-octane performances have been filling arenas around the world since the six-month, 35-country tour began in February. FOH engineer Martin Walker chose the LEO Family to ensure maximum power and clarity for Iron Maiden after mixing Judas Priest’s 2014-2015 world tour on the system. “LEO’s clarity and headroom help out a great deal when it comes to balancing the mix,” reported Walker. “Iron Maiden has three guitars, vocals, and occasional keyboards all vying…
German popstar Andreas Bourani is currently out on an arena tour of Germany in support of his latest album ‘HEY’, with a slick and stylish lighting design by Nik Evers using Clay Paky Mythos and A.leda B-EYE K20 fixtures. Evers – who also designed the staging and video content alongside Timo Marten and Philip Hillers – has specified the highly advanced hybrid light Mythos and the LED wash and effects light B-EYE from Black Box Music. Positioned on the floor of the B-stage surrounding Bourani and the band, Evers is employing the sharp and precise beams of the Mythos to…
Beach Park in Florida’s famous spring break city is 893 miles from Ryman Auditorium, birthplace of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. But for three days this April, the eyes of the country music world were on Fort Lauderdale, as the Tortuga Music Festival welcomed stars like Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Sam Hunt, Thomas Rhett, Kip Moore and others to its three stages. Of course, being on the ocean, Tortuga treated 90,000 fans (from 47 states and 16 countries, according to organisers) to a tropical escape as well as music. Contributing to the mood was a collection of Caribbean-inspired lounges…
Two Allen & Heath dLive digital mixing systems managed the recent two-month run of Green Day’s stage show, American Idiot, at Cirkus Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden. Parashoot PA was appointed to manage the sound, selecting S7000 Control Surface and DM64 MixRack at both FOH and monitors, and a ME system for personal monitors, from its hire stock. “I wasn’t sure at first when the producer asked me to design and engineer the show as we are a touring PA company but he was adamant that the show was about capturing the Green Day sound and attitude,” explained Parashoot’s Oscar Söderlund.…
Ljubljana Castle – a top tourist attraction in the beautiful Slovenian capital – has added more Robes to its lighting inventory with the purchase of CycFX 8s, LEDBeam 100s and six Robe LightWare HO battery powered up-lighting LED units, complete with integrated charging case. The Castle sits majestically above the city and defines the skyline. Originally the site of a medieval fortress, its present outline dates back to the 15th century with the majority of the current buildings constructed during the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition to being a place of great historical interest, it’s also a busy event…
West Midlands UK based production and live video specialist Central Presentations delivered a stunning widescreen projection system plus lighting and sound production for ‘Big Day Out’, an event for ITV Commercial sales teams staged at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire. A series of motivational talks and presentations, interspersed with choreographed entertainment and magicians, took place in the venue’s Lecture Theatre for which CPL supplied a 12 metre wide by four metre high projection screen, fed by Panasonic 12K laser projectors. This was installed by a CPL crew project managed for CPL by Lee Gruszeckyj and Liam Griffiths. The three projectors were…
Focusrite Audio Engineering Limited, based in High Wycombe, UK, has been awarded the 2016 Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade. The Award follows seven consecutive years of sustained growth in global business and market share for Focusrite. This is the third time Focusrite has been honoured with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, having collected prizes for Innovation in 2008, and International Trade in 2012. Founder and Executive Chairman Phil Dudderidge commented on news of the Award: “This is a great recognition of the outstanding growth of our international business over the past seven years, during which period we have…
Philips Lighting, a Royal Philips company, is celebrating its Entertainment division’s most successful Prolight + Sound show to date. With a record number of on stand visitors, the Entertainment team is crediting Prolight + Sound’s new concept and location in the Eastern section of the Messe for the boost. “We really saw a noticeable increase in visitors to our stand from previous years,” said Philips Entertainment General Manager Grant Bales-Smith. “The show’s new set-up, along with our completely new stand concept, worked well to highlight to visitors our fresh and original approach.” Philips Lighting opted to theme its stand ‘inspired…
Muse is the latest band to benefit from Mojo Barriers’ specially-designed touring barrier as 160 metres of the system keeps crowds safe throughout ‘The Drones World Tour’. Mojo Barriers was contracted to ensure audience and artist safety at all the US and European dates of Muse’s nine month tour. Mojo supplied 160 metre of barriers, ADA and heavy duty cable ramps along with custom designed Double Flex Corners to allow the Muse production team to pass cabling under the barriers safely. Mojo’s JB Dolphin and John Wagoner oversaw all 27 Mexican and North American dates, whilst Stanley Jilesen oversaw the…
MUSIC, umbrella company of industry-leading brands MIDAS, LAB GRUPPEN, LAKE, TURBOSOUND and TANNOY, has today announced the launch of the MIDAS M8000, an ultra-high performance 192 kHz, 8 channel A/D converter with unprecedented audio and sonic performance. Andy Trott, SVP, Enterprise & Entertainment Division stated: “For over four decades, MIDAS has been the undisputed leader in audio and sound performance, especially known for its award-winning microphone preamplifiers and best sounding mixing consoles. Our Manchester Innovation team spent over three years and close to one million dollars to develop what we believe is the world’s best-sounding A/D converter. Based on advanced…
PRG XL Video, the UK operation of global event technology provider Production Resource Group (PRG), has announced a new addition to its Corporate Account Management team. Thomas Walsh joins PRG XL Video from Hawthorn, where he was a Project Manager, supplying multi-discipline production services to a variety of events. Events Thomas has delivered include the Coronation Festival Gala at Buckingham Palace. Prior to working at Hawthorn, Walsh graduated from Leeds Beckett University with an honours degree in Creative Music and Sound Technology, and subsequently gained broad industry experience working as a Technician and Production Manager for Aztec Event Services. Walsh…
Adlib supplied an L-Acoustics ‘racks-and-stacks’ audio solution plus a full support package and crew to Years & Years recent UK tour which saw the chart-topping rising star synthpop trio from London playing a series of sold out theatres and arenas. Adlib were brought on-board by production manager Steve Down. Two of their most experienced regular engineers, Sam Proctor and Hassane Es Siahi were tasked to ensure that band engineers Pablo Campanara (FOH) and Harry Bishop (monitors) received impeccable support. Due to the variety of venues on the itinerary, Pablo specified a system with great flexibility, so an L-Acoustic’s K1 /…
“De Mens” is a Belgian rock band, formed in 1992 who mainly make Dutch songs. The band consists of four members: Frank Vander Linden (vocals, guitar), Michel De Coster (bass guitar), Dirk Jans (drums, vocals) and David Poltrock (keyboards). Sound technician, Tom Janssen, advised Vander Linden to look for a microphone of his own and after having played some shows with the Shure KSM8, FACE provided him with this revolutionary dynamic microphone for his personal use. The Shure KSM8 is the first ever dual-diaphragm dynamic handheld microphone specially suited for high-end vocal reproduction and sound-reinforcement control. The Dualdyne cartridge eliminates…
When Hungry Bear Media produced Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, the brand new Saturday night entertainment show that aired on BBC 1 this weekend, they brought Showforce’s crew in to assist. The show is hosted by Michael McIntyre and features a variety of acts and talent, the production was recorded in front of a live audience at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. A six week run of filming began at the end of February and was completed in early April. Showforce provided a team of 22 who were on site for two nights each week, delivering crewing requirements for the…
