Much to the pleasure of their loyal fans, the eclectic indie powerhouse returned to UK arenas for a seven-date stint which manifested as one of the most sophisticated and elegant productions of 2018. TPi’s Stew Hume met the innovative crew behind the enchanting High As Hope tour… https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijan19_digitallr/46 Photos: Luke Dyson and TPi www.florenceandthemachine.net www.willoperron.com www.timroutledge.co.uk www.premierglobalproduction.com www.fivepointsproductionservices.com www.clairglobal.com www.upstagevideo.com www.bpm-sfx.com www.beatthestreet.net www.brianyeardley.com www.xpeditiousunlimited.com www.rockpooltourcatering.com www.thepowershop.eu
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When British electro-pop trio Years & Years – Olly Alexander, Mikey Goldsworthy and Emre Türkmen – returned to the UK charts with their second album, Palo Santo, the band had a strong concept to deliver. The dystopian, fictional world populated by a majority android nation sees gender blending and sexual ambiguity in full force. TPi’s Kel Murray visited the live ‘dark cabaret’ show only to discover non-conformity and inclusion can rule as one. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpijan19_digitallr/32 Photos: Tony Woolliscroft, Roy Brown and Joe Okpako. www.yearsandyears.com www.onlyhelix.com www.cassiuscreative.co.uk www.fraystudio.co.uk www.sillismovement.com www.neoncircus.com www.unipix.tv www.negearth.com www.sseaudiogroup.com www.flybynite.co.uk www.phoenix-bussing.co.uk www.allaccessinc.com www.popcorncatering.com
Litec has just released a new video on A4i.tv dedicated to its MyT Folding Steroid Roof System, which was chosen for an extremely large Tribute Concert in Naples, Italy that celebrated the life and songs of Italian singer Pino Daniele. The video documents construction of the massive MyT Folding Steroid Roof System, which also featured spot and delay towers (constructed with MyT Folding Steroid’s modular components), and shows them in action during the evening’s performances. The highly publicized and nationally televised concert attracted an impressive crowd of more than 85,000 attendees and was broadcast to a television audience of millions.…
Learn from Luke about Avolites Synergy on its first tour ever, the Gary Numan tour Read the full story in the January issue of TPi.
Marcel Quiroz has become one of the most in-demand live-sound mixers in the Bay Area. He has established a solid audio foundation as a recording engineer in major regional studios, such as Different Fur and Hyde Street Studios. His ongoing work with reggae singer J Boog at the artist’s Wash House Studios led to a new career as a live-sound mixer. He noted: “I was really focused on the studio at first, but then I participated in some live-sound courses as part of the program at what is now the SAE Expression College in Emeryville.” That all led to an…
Studio Tanta, the newest and largest recording studio in Tokyo which opened in the Shibuya district in May 2018, chose Ayrton lighting products for its rehearsal studios. The successful installation includes 10 Ayrton NandoBeam S3 units, 6 WildBeam R fixtures and 4 Arcaline 2 100 battens which were permanently installed in Rehearsal Studio-C. Studio Tanta is an impressive 7-storey building which took five years to build from planning to completion. It has two recording studios, a rehearsal studio, two artists’ rooms, and a restaurant. Hibino Lighting Inc., Ayrton’s exclusive distributor for Japan, was responsible for the supply and installation of…
Painting with Light is both a creative and a technical partner of the ambitious new 40-45 Spektakle Musical production being staged at the Pop-Up Theatre in Puurs, Belgium, by Studio 100 and directed by Frank Van Laecke which is currently a huge talking and trending point. Painting with Light’s creative director Luc Peumans is the show’s lighting and video designer, and the scenic video content was also produced by the Genk based visual design practice. The company invested over €350,000 in the purchase of the 10 disguise gx media servers which are wirelessly controlled and delivering the video to…
For her recent DVD production Ivete Sangalo Live Experience in the Allianz Park, São Paulo, Brazil, lighting designers Paulinho Lebrão and Guillermo Herrero used 2 grandMA2 full-size consoles, 1 grandMA2 light and 4 MA NPUs (Network Processing Units) to control a set with more than 800 fixtures. Lebrão explained: “We have been using grandMA2 consoles since 2011, and the experience, knowledge and confidence we have in the system leaves us no doubt in the choice. When art director Gringo Cardia presented this project, the mission for us was create lighting that could show the big size, plus all the details…
The West London demo room of Kinesys was home to a Green Hippo Automation Masterclass with an international flavour. Welcoming attendees from Finland and the Netherlands, as well as the United Kingdom, Green Hippo partnered with Kinesys to deliver Masterclass III – Automation. The two-day course, which took place earlier this month, enabled delegates to take a deep dive into integrating moving elements with Hippotizer and SHAPE 3D projection mapping. Occupying the Kinesys base, conveniently located 20 minutes from Heathrow, students benefited from a venue fully-equipped with chain motors, rotators, trolleys and truss – this was a true hands-on experience where…
FOH and Monitor engineer Charles Izzo (Portugal. The Man, The Naked and Famous, Dawes) chooses products from Waves Audio, including MultiRack, SoundGrid Extreme and Plugins, for the Childish Gambino This is America Tour. Responsible for what Donald Glover, a.k.a. Childish Gambino, hears in his monitors night after night, Izzo commented on his setup: “I am using a Solid State Logic L500 console, which goes into 18 mixes of Shure PSM1000 IEMs, one Clair Cohesion wedge, one Clair Cohesion drum sub, and various mixes to other departments such as show director, lighting, video departments, etc. Running all those plugins through Waves MultiRack on my…
Over 840 Claypaky fixtures were used on the 16th Junior Eurovision Song Contest (JESC) final which was broadcast live from Minsk to more than 2.7 million viewers globally. The enormous production was skilfully orchestrated by Head of Production Ola Melzig with lighting designed by Alex Manzenko. The predominantly Claypaky rig for JESC included Claypaky Scenius Unico, Claypaky Mythos 2, Claypaky Scenius Spot, Claypaky Sharpy, Claypaky Axcor Beam 300, Axcor Profile 600, Claypaky A.leda B-EYE K20, Claypaky Stormy CC, Claypaky Sharpy Wash, Claypaky Sharpy Wash, Claypaky Shotlight Wash, and Claypaky Alpha Spot 1500. “We specify Claypaky products as they’re extremely reliable, and…
disguise has announced its expansion with new offices in Shanghai and Los Angeles, which comes at a time of exponential growth with new staff appointments, an expanding client portfolio and product innovation. disguise is the creator of collaborative 3D visualisation software and powerful hardware, used at the centre of live entertainment and experiences. With a focus on innovation and delivering the most powerful technologies, it works with some of the world’s most talented visual designers working in: concert touring such as U2, Rolling Stones, Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Ed Sheeran; Californian music and arts festival Coachella; several West End and…
Capital Sound recently completed one of their more unusual mini-tours when they provided sound reinforcement, including Martin Audio’s MLA, for three shows by Japanese ‘android diva’ Hatsune Miku. The ‘Vocaloid’ music sensation uses a computer generated voicebank developed by Crypton Future Media. This virtual persona is actually a 16-year-old blue haired girl, who is seen onstage as a 3D hologram projection. Her repertoire is entirely original and she has over 2.5 million followers on social media. The Expo 2018 Europe tour came to Capital via Jamal Chalabi of Proper Productions, with whom they work frequently. Since the London date was…
ADB Stagelight recently presented the Ocean for the first time ever in the world at JTSE in Paris. This innovative lighting console, designed for theatres, opera houses and multi-purpose venues, immediately attracted a great deal of interest among sector workers. The Ocean’s most striking feature, as well as one of its main strong points, is its high-resolution touchscreen, with a 70-cm-wide (27½-inch-wide) viewing area. It provides operators with full access to all functions and control of all parameters through a single screen, which greatly simplifies control desk ergonomics. Due to its ultra-stretched display format, the console and screen itself are…
At the end of 2017 Pete Tong, with Jules Buckley and the Heritage Orchestra, treated UK fans to a full-on live production of his acclaimed album, Ibiza Classics. Such was the reception that dates for this outing in the run up to Christmas 2018 were booked almost immediately. While the essential elements of last December’s tour remain the same including services from Video Design, changes have been made. “For me, what has made it different this time around is the change of musicians, with different players in the orchestra; their physical technique affects how it looks and feels and consequently…
To properly preserve the atmosphere of their latest album on a live tour supporting the release, Evanescence performed its shows accompanied by orchestra members that were individually handpicked in each city and brought together by the tour’s conductor, Susie Seiter. Furthermore, on the most recent second North American leg when violinist Lindsey Stirling joined as a co-headliner, featuring songs from her album, Brave Enough, and acted as an extra member of Evanescence for specific songs like Hi-Lo. LMG Touring, headquartered in Orlando, has worked with Stirling extensively in the past and served as the full-service audio, video, and lighting provider…
ETC, Inc. and Global Design Solutions Ltd. (GDS) have announced the development of their successful partnership. Since 2015, ETC has been manufacturing and selling GDS-designed products in North and South America. Under a new agreement this relationship is expanded. ETC has acquired the ArcSystem, BluesSystem and CueSystem product lines from GDS. There is no immediate change for customers of the two companies: ETC makes and sells the products in North America, and GDS remains as the maker and seller of these products in the rest of the world. In August 2019 ETC will take over manufacture and distribution of these…
The 19th Annual Latin Grammy Awards Show, held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and broadcast live on Univision, used four DiGiCo consoles for the show Two SD7 desks for front-of-house music and production, and two SD10 consoles for monitors, along with a total of eight SD-Racks, all supplied by Firehouse Productions, whose VP Mark Dittmar and system technician David Crawford designed the event’s sound system, with Luis Espinal also serving as a system tech. Front-of-house music mixer Ron Reaves and production mixer Andrew “Fletch” Fletcher both used SD7 consoles, while monitor mixers Mike Parker and Mike…
