50 Cent, Lil Yatchty, Travis Scott and D_Block Europe were among the lineup appearing on the Serious 25m TZ Roof at Wireless Festival, July 7-9, 2023. Serious Stages are supplying stages and site structures for Festival Republic across a range of UK festivals throughout the summer and have recently returned to Wireless Festival this weekend. Serious Operations Manager Abbey Thomas said: “We work closely with Festival Republic’s creative and production teams to design and install stages that meet the needs of the headliners, while also creating a unique aesthetic for their events. “Our TZ Roof was installed as the main…
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Lightware Visual Engineering has promoted Siegfried Hermann to the role of President of Lightware EMEA. Under his leadership, Lightware will consolidate its position in the EMEA region with a greater focus on further growth after a hugely successful 2022 and a remarkable start in 2023. In August 2022, Lightware appointed Siegfried Hermann as Vice President of Business Development for the EMEA region. He developed and expanded Lightware’s presence in the region, developing new partnerships with global corporations. In his new position as President of Lightware EMEA, Hermann will be responsible for sales, operations and organisation development in the complete EMEA…
Japanese rock band My Hair is Bad wrapped up the Ultimate Homerun Tour with two shows at Osaka-Jo Hall and in an iconic Tokyo arena that featured a special immersive audio experience for their loyal fans. The band’s sound engineer, Hironori Ochi had first learned of L-ISA technology from Masaaki Nagayasu, Systems Engineer at L-Acoustics Certified Rental Agent Hibino Sound, who hosted Mr. Ochi to an L-ISA workshop in his personal studio. Upon discovering the unique capabilities of L-ISA, Mr. Ochi began working on the design of an L-ISA Hyperreal Sound system for the 10,000-capacity Osaka-Jo Hall arena concert. “I…
Bristol-based Enlightened has its roots in lighting. But over the years, the company has evolved to become the leading complete technical solutions provider in the South West of England, covering everything from sales, hire and equipment repair through to installation and full event production services. A recent investment in a NEXO GEO M10 line array system sees Enlightened bolstering an already significant inventory of NEXO ID and P+ Series point-source boxes. “They’re like hot cakes” reports Production Manager Ryan Stromski. “The utilisation of our NEXO stock is so high, they’re never on the shelf.” The new GEO M10 system was…
Marc Carolan, Muse’s FOH engineer for over two decades has employed the Austrian Audio OD505 WL1 for vocals on the Will of the People Tour. The OD505 WL1 is an ideal solution for those in the band who are mobile during their performance and depend on a wireless system. In many live situations, ambient sound is a big problem and mic’s supercardioid polar pattern smoothly rejects unwanted interference and focuses on the voice. Monitor engineer Matt Napier, part of Carolan’s team and on his first tour with the group, confirmed this in a recent interview with FOH Magazine “When Matt…
VDC Trading has promoted three employees to head up a new technical team, officially formalising its technical consultation service offering to customers. The new department is spearheaded by Jim Bulbeck, technical support manager, and David Barnard, customer services manager, both supported by technical assistant Dan Tompkins. Via an added-value consultative sales approach, VDC customers have always had access to experienced advisors helping them overcome any technical issues. The new team just makes it easier for them to have a dedicated and named point person to deal with their enquiries. Niall Holden, founder and CEO of VDC Trading commented: “We’ve always…
It was hard to beat the magnitude of the star power at Glastonbury Festival but one dozen Claypaky Skylos fixtures held their own against headlining acts on the Pyramid Stage, including the UK’s last live touring performance of Sir Elton John. Placed on the ground and producing super-concentrated beams of lights, the Skylos searchlights showed themselves to be extremely versatile fixtures that are more than simple searchlights, creating dense, solid beams of light and ever-greater light output. This year Glastonbury attracted headliners Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses and Elton John, with Yusuf/Cat Stevens performing in the Legends slots. The festival…
CHAUVET Professional fixtures seemed to be everywhere one looked at Worthy Farm during Glastonbury Festival 2023. The company’s products were used to add extra colour to 17 of the festival’s stages. Included in the group were main attractions like the Pyramid, Greenpeace, Flying Bus and new Levels stages, as well as more specialised attractions like the Avalon Stage, nightclub-like Salon Carousel, The Hive Stage, Outside Circus Stage, and the San Remo Stage, an interzone for dreamers, visionaries and other revelers. CHAUVET Professional’s wildly popular Color STRIKE M was clearly one of the brightest lighting stars of the festival. This was evident…
HIVE launches the BeeBlade, a new product offering that is set to redefine the way media players are used across various applications. BeeBlade represents a game-changing approach to media playback, making it the most advanced and adaptable solution in today’s fast-moving media engine market. “I’m very excited about our new BeeBox and BeeBlade products, featuring our game-changing BeeSync technology. Developed in partnership with Intel, this cutting-edge technology enables seamless frame-perfect synchronisation across devices without the need for separate reference sync cabling and expensive HDSDI hardware,” explained Trey Harrison, Co-Founder at HIVE. “The BeeBlade sits inside a projector or display and…
Nicolas Champion has joined SGM Light as Managing Director of North America. With over 25 years of experience in both architectural and entertainment lighting, Nicolas is a trusted and well-known lighting professional. As Managing Director, Champion will work closely with North American key accounts and distribution partners as well as the SGM Light sales and customer support teams to develop and coordinate business in both rental and fixed installation markets. Champion has a very strong background through progressive roles in lighting and sales management, most recently as the Vice President of Sales for Altman Lighting. Champion also has prior experience…
Several years in the making, Harmony of The Worlds, composed by Satya Hinduja, began as a visionary notion of spatialising and immersing sound all around an audience. What started with an Orchestra of eight and just four singers, quickly tripled and grew again, artistically combining the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, a choir, and hundreds of pre-recorded sounds to totally immerse its audience in 360 degrees of musical wellness. The DiGiCo Quantum 7 was the only digital mixing console on the market with the flexibility and technical capabilities to handle such a project, and controlled by Sound Engineer, Mark Rogers. Harmony of…
The triumphs of Wrexham Town FC and the kudos of Hollywood glamour bestowed upon them by owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are well known and deservedly so. That Kings of Leon should bring some added grandeur to the end of the season celebrations with two nights playing to sell-out crowds of 20k+ was however, a case of blessed opportunism. “In terms of a stadium that’s never hosted a big rock show before, it was comfortable,” said Production Manager, Bill Leabody. “Going forward, staging shows there in the future will not be impossible, but a lot more difficult than what…
Sound Image will join the Clair Global Group. This partnership will enhance both organisations’ live production and systems integration capabilities and will result in a larger depth and breadth of service and product offerings for Clair Global and Sound Image clients alike. Sound Image CEO, Dave Shadoan, who has led the organization since the late seventies, commented: “As I looked ahead and considered my next steps, I knew that partnering with Clair Global would further safeguard a sustainable and prosperous future for our employees and our clients. It became clear that Clair was a good fit because of our mutual…
What do psych soul outfit Black Pumas and rapper-turned-gamer Logic have in common? They both rely on the Shure SM7B to connect to their fans when it counts most. First released in 1973, the SM7 was built to be the best professional broadcasting and voiceover microphone possible. Evolving into the SM7B, the dynamic microphone has come to dominate pro podcasting and streaming, while remaining indispensable in the world’s best recording and broadcast studios. The SM7 line has a storied history, trusted by the most innovative entertainers, artists, and creators for five decades. “In the history of audio, very few microphones…
Each Spring, the Cully Jazz Festival immerses jazz fans in a captivating blend of music and picturesque scenery in the heart of Switzerland’s wine country. The most important event in Swiss Romande’s vibrant cultural calendar, the festival was born in 1995 from the passion and dreams of two young visionaries, Daniel Thentz and Emmanuel Gétaz. Since then, the festival has grown from a humble two-day event, to one of Switzerland’s most influential jazz festivals spread across nine vibrant days. 2023 marks Cully Jazz Festival’s 40th anniversary, and the event now includes the entire village in its festival atmosphere. Year after…
Smode Tech, the company behind the real-time compositing and media server platform SMODE, welcomes two new employees to further strengthen Smode Tech’s commitment to delivering the highest quality service to its users internationally: Damien Gaillard joins Smode Tech as channel manager, while Jean-François Ballanger takes on the position of sales engineer. Damien’s main responsibilities will be developing relationships with Smode Tech’s international partners and help them develop in their respective markets as well as identifying new partnership opportunities globally. With a background in business and marketing, Damien has successfully applied his expertise across multiple sectors, showcasing exceptional adaptability skills while…
Yamaha launches the new DM7 series of professional digital mixers. The culmination of decades of Yamaha development experience, the DM7 series takes the best elements of previous digital mixing systems and combines them with innovative new features in a compact, powerful, ergonomic, flexible and expandable package. Comprising two consoles and a control expansion unit, plus additional software packages, the DM7 series is designed to deliver exceptional results with enhanced workflow for live music, corporate events, theatre, broadcast, streaming and hybrid mixing, where one console is used to independently mix more than one feed. An expandable, all-in-one digital mixer with a…
Canada-based Lighting Designer Alex Mungal of Alien Lites selected Claypaky Xtylos fixtures for the European tour of American rock band A Day To Remember (ADTR), which wrapped at the end of February in Antwerp, Belgium. Mungal designed and programmed the show for ADTR, which was on tour with Bring me the Horizon and Static Dress. The band has had a busy run lately with the month-long European tour that stretched from Portugal to Poland following a North American headlining tour that kicked off in Baltimore in July 2022 and wrapped in Las Vegas in October. ADTR also played an acoustic…
