Global sensation and world-renowned soprano, Sarah Brightman, delighted millions of fans worldwide with her highly anticipated tour. The iconic Grammy Award-nominated artist embarked on a magical journey, which kicked off in the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas and saw her journey through Mexico and across Asia, dazzling audiences with her powerful vocals and spreading joy through the power of music. Brightman’s final performance marked a triumphant end to a whirlwind tour that left fans both enchanted and in awe. The tour also marked a significant milestone for Lewe Redlin, Brightman’s Monitor Engineer of six years, as this was the…
Author: James Robertson
South Germany-based band H.A.S.A. (Heiner’s All Star Attraktion) recently updated their entire live sound inventory with an Allen & Heath SQ-6 digital mixer, two AB168 AudioRacks and five ME-1 personal mixers. Assisting with the incorporation of the ME-1 system into the band’s set-up was engineer Klaus Bröckel (whose CV features Miles Davis, Till Brönner, Klaus Doldinger and festivals including JazzOpen Stuttgart, Jazzfest Rottweil and Bayern 3 Dorffest Open Air amongst many others). As a long-term ME-1 devotee, Bröckel has introduced many artists to the personal monitoring solution and was well-placed to ensure the band enjoyed a smooth transition to the…
Martin Audio has appointed Wavefront Culture as its distributor in Malaysia. This strategic partnership will enable Wavefront Culture to distribute Martin Audio’s acclaimed line of products to customers across the Malaysian market. As part of this collaboration, Wavefront Culture will showcase Martin Audio’s FlexPoint, TORUS, and Wavefront Precision. For the installation sector, Wavefront Culture will supply several market-leading systems, including CDD Series, ADORN (including ceiling) speakers, SX Series, BlacklineX, O-Line, and TH series. Wavefront Culture is committed to the new partnership and plans to include Martin Audio’s full suite of products in their upcoming showroom. This dedicated space will provide…
Virscient, the wireless connectivity and audio specialists, have released LiveOnAir – a highly innovative technology that enables ultra-low-latency audio over low power wireless links. LiveOnAir changes the game for key applications in live performance (for example in digital wireless microphones and in-ear monitors), gaming, and other innovative audio scenarios. These use cases fundamentally require low latency to ensure an optimum experience, and existing technologies do not meet this need. Additional latency in live performance scenarios can result in a disconnect between performer and performance, with mixed/monitored audio poorly synchronised with real-time events. Similarly, in gaming applications, latency and audio quality…
British rock band Muse has hit the road with its North American tour, Will of the People, on which more than 150 Claypaky Xtylos enhance the band’s post-apocalyptic staging non-stop. The tour is named for the band’s most recent ninth studio album, which gave Muse its seventh consecutive No. 1 on the UK albums chart and topped Billboard’s Alternative and Rock Albums tallies. The “Will of the People” tour began in Chicago’s United Center on February 25 and concluded the U.S. portion of the tour on April 20 in Salt Lake City, after which it will move on to Europe.…
The 4-day Prolight+Sound (PLS Exhibition), the world’s largest stage lighting and sound technology exhibition, ended in Frankfurt, Germany on April 28 2023. Unilumin exhibited several of its flagship LED products, XR virtual production solution, and other integrated solutions to demonstrate Metasight scenarios at the exhibition. Highlights of Unilumin Booth 1. XR Virtual Production: The popularity of the Oscar-winning film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” starred by Michelle Yeoh shows that the new technological revolution in the film industry is booming, and that virtual digital film shooting is becoming the mainstream film shooting method, bidding farewell to the technology of green…
This week sees the first episode of Backstage with Backup, a new series of podcasts designed to let you know a bit more Backup Tech by talking to the people behind the charity, the industry friends it works with, and those who have benefitted from its support. Backup Tech is a UK registered charity that provides financial and wellbeing support to technical professionals, crew and production personnel and anyone working in the technical supply chain across the UK entertainment industry. In this first episode, Sarah James (Press & PR for Backup) talks to Backup Trustee and Autograph MD Scott Arnold,…
The fourth edition of ecolibrium’s Green Travel Guide for Festivals and Events is packed with new information, case studies and future transport trends. ecolibrium, the charity on a mission to move low carbon travel to the heart of live events culture, has launched a new guide for 2023. It provides updated understanding of festival travel impacts, with inspiration for changes that can be made to reduce impacts, and how to communicate initiatives and strategy to stakeholders. Download the ecolibrium Green Travel and Transport Guide for Festivals and Events here. The guide has been updated in line with new best practice…
The end of April 2023 saw HOLOPLOT welcome 22 school girls aged 10-16 to its HQ in Berlin to spend the day with the team as part of Girls Day, an initiative that encourages girls to consider careers in the tech industry. It is funded and supported by the responsible federal ministries, the Federal Employment Agency, social partners and representatives from the federal states, science, practice and business in Germany. HOLOPLOT was formed out of the belief that the face of audio can be radically transformed and applies this thinking to all areas of the business. The need for transformation…
Canadian progressive metal pioneer Devin Townsend recently completed a European and UK tour in support of his latest album, 2022’s ‘Lightwork’, taking in shows from Oslo to Milan, Lisbon to London. Throughout the tour FOH engineer Chris Edrich and monitor engineer Samuel Chadwick handled their mixes on Allen & Heath dLive C1500 control surfaces, sharing a CDM32 Mix Rack between the two. Supplied by STS Touring Productions and Pulse PA, the C1500s were chosen for their unique combination of small size, comprehensive feature set and excellent sound as Chadwick (who has previous experience touring dLive with Alter Bridge frontman Myles…
The 76th annual Tony Awards celebration, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theater Wing, will be held on June 11 at the historic United Palace in the Washington Heights district of New York. Two productions nominated for Best Musical — New York, New York and Kimberly Akimbo — employ main reinforcement systems of Meyer Sound loudspeakers. Both systems are the work of noted sound designer Kai Harada, and his personal contribution to New York, New York is recognized by a nomination for Best Sound Design of a Musical, an award he garnered in 2018 for A Band’s Visit.…
At one point in Akshay Kumar’s show, The Entertainers, the Bollywood legend seemed to be floating in the air. The harnessed star then picked up dancer Mouni Roy and ascended over the audience with her. The sellout crowds at the three stops on this US tour might very well have felt that they were air surfing too, such was the uplifting magical mood of this three-and-a-half hour show that featured music and dancing interspliced with plenty of dynamic crowd interaction. In addition to Roy, Kumar was joined on stage (if not in the air), by stars like Norha Fatehi, Disha…
Charlie Puth is living the dream of viral video maker turned mega music star. From TikToks in which he writes songs on the spot to his third studio album Charlie, his combination of humor, big feels, and raw talent has earned him a mantel-breaking number of accolades including five Grammy nominations. Suffice to say that when Charlie sings, people listen. When he tours for his huge and devoted fanbase, he listens to himself in a monitor mix that factors in his exact position onstage, how his head is turned, and the resulting changes in what he hears. Monitor engineer Josh…
Koy Neminathan has joined Elation Professional company as Director of Business Development. The accomplished industry veteran comes to Elation from lighting console manufacturer Avolites, where he worked for over 23 years in sales and business development, the last decade as Sales Director. Koy will work closely with designers to keep them abreast of Elation’s growing line of innovative lighting products while communicating market insight to the Elation product team. His extensive experience includes growing and managing a large distributor network, achieved through strong relationship building and an understanding of the needs and requirements of different global markets. Those qualities will…
PCE (formerly known as Pacific Coast Entertainment), a live event production company with a broad array of equipment and services for concerts, corporate events, galas, tours, theatrical productions and more, has kept its new grandMA3 light and grandMA3 onPC command wing busy since they took delivery of the units. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America. With offices in Huntington Beach and San Diego, California, PCE invested in the grandMA3 consoles about 18 months ago. “They were our first MA acquisitions,” noted Jon Hyrkas, Account Executive, Retail/Integration Sales at PCE. “As we started to…
Mixhalo, the ultra-low latency networking technology that unlocks high-fidelity, augmented audio for fans at live events, has announced L-Acoustics’ comprehensive spatial audio ecosystem, the L-ISA 3.0. will now come pre-loaded with Mixhalo’s proprietary wireless networking technology as part of L-ISA 3.0 release. Mixhalo is the first external application L-Acoustics will offer via L-ISA Processor II. Clients using L-ISA Processor II will now be able to leverage Mixhalo to deliver pristine, ultra-low-latency spatial audio directly to fans via their own phones and headphones. Because Mixhalo’s technology automatically and dynamically time-aligns with loudspeakers, it can complement a PA system perfectly, offering multiple…
Lewis Capaldi is currently touring the States, having recently completed his biggest European tour to date, visiting arenas in 32 cities over two months. Having played one of the last concerts before lockdown in March 2020, the Scot was out with a lighting package provided by Neg Earth, and new conceptual stage scenography orchestrated by Cassius Creative. This was constructed largely around GLP lighting solutions, notably a large grid of 102 powerful JDC1 hybrid strobes. Cassius has worked with the artist’s long-term production manager, Nick Lawrie, since that earlier arena tour and came up with a brutalist concept, the basis…
Santiano, a quintet from Germany, creates a captivating fusion of sea shanties, European folk, schlager, and modern pop music with a distinctively rustic feel. In 2023, the band celebrates their 10th anniversary with the release of a new album Die Sehnsucht ist mein Steuermann – Das Beste aus 10 Jahren (The Best of 10 Years) and embarked on an extensive anniversary tour. The band’s monitor engineer, Ravi Rai, has opted for KLANG’s immersive in-ear monitor mixing solution, for which he is using a DMI-KLANG card-equipped DiGiCo Quantum 338 digital mixing console provided by rental company GrandPA Beschallungs & Lichttechnik. As…
