In addition to the 11 new lighting fixtures and LED video panels announced in the run up to the show, ADJ used the 2019 LDI tradeshow that took place in Las Vegas to launch four extra exciting new products. The Encore Profile Pro range is a new series of professional LED-powered ellipsoidal fixtures designed for theatrical, broadcast and performance environments. The Focus Spot 6Z and Focus Wash 400, meanwhile, are feature-packed moving head luminaires that join the top ranks of ADJ’s extremely popular Focus Series. Joining the ADJ Focus Series as its new flagship, the Focus Spot 6Z harnesses the…
Author: James Robertson
The 1990s is a popular period for musical renaissances, and in Spain they love nothing more than a bit of Eurobeat, a pumpingly rhythmic dancey nostalgia that has rocketed the Love the 90’s festival into popular culture, celebrated with three extravaganza shows in 2019 staged in Madrid, Seville and Valencia! Lighting and show designer Eduardo Valverde from Madrid-based creative specialist Pixelmap Studios was this year’s creative director, and his brief included imagineering the stage layout, set architecture including LED screens and the lighting. Prominent on his lighting plot were around 150 Robe moving lights including Pointes, MegaPointes, LEDBeam 150s and LEDWash…
Lizzo has made her mark on the music industry: her chart-topping “Truth Hurts” was at the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks in 2019, while the music video for the song has currently amassed more than 110 million views on YouTube. Completing her music-industry conquest, Lizzo’s Cuz I Love You Too Tour has sold out all of its shows since it began this past April, with some venues demanding additional performances. All of these shows were mixed via two DiGiCo SD12 96 consoles at the front-of-house and monitor positions, provided by Clair Global, which is also…
Lighting and stage design studio M3 Studio in Bucharest, Romania selected a large complement of Claypaky fixtures for the latest tour by Andra, the best-selling Romanian pop and folk artist. Claypaky SharBars, Alpha Spot 800 QWOs, A.leda Wash K10s and Sharpys helped illuminate Andra’s 10 dates, scheduled from April to September across Romania. M3 Studio, known for providing visual creativity for bands, clubs and shows, was charged with designing a compact show that would be easy to rig in the short time intervals available at each stop on the tour. A mobile stage was chosen for fast deployment on the…
Since 1997, Britannia Row has masterfully deployed audio requirements to MTV’s Europe Music Awards. This year’s winners included Artist of the Year – Ariana Grande, Best Live Act – BTS and Best Song – Bad Guy by Billie Eilish, all of whom were honoured in a live televised ceremony staged in the Andalusian capital of Seville. MTV has trusted Brit Row to supply the event for over two decades, creating a strong level of trust and reassurance during planning, pre-production and the live show. Supplying an L-Acoustics PA rig, Sennheiser mics and IEMs, and a plethora of DiGiCo SD7s at…
Leading UK lighting control manufacturer Zero 88 launches a new website www.zero88.com complete with a highly visual contemporary design and a host of relevant product, project and general information that’s quick and easy to navigate via intuitive menuing that gets viewers to exactly where they need to be quickly and logically. It has been designed and initiated by the same team who worked on delivering the award-winning patented ZerOS User interface features and mobile app. The site is fully mobile-friendly and optimised for all devices – smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops. It is action-packed with high-quality photos and embedded product…
Beat The Street USA Inc, the latest undertaking by Beat The Street, will be on the road in January 2020. The company is launching to the USA touring market with a unique double-decker, 16/14 bunk crew and band bus offer, secured via an exclusive deal with Belgian supplier Van Hool. It has also added the latest X3 single-decker models from Prevost to the line-up. Double deckers are not yet used in the States for touring, but their additional capacity is well known to those US tour managers who use them with us in Europe and the UK. The US team,…
SSE Audio Group and its parent company Solotech have announced a new unified UK organisational structure aligned with Solotech’ s global structure. As of January 1st 2020, SSE Audio, Wigwam, Capital Sound and BCS Audio will be collectively known as the Solotech UK group under the new joint leadership of Managing Directors Alex Penn and Spencer Beard. Alex Penn, SSE Audio’s former Sales Director, will lead the Sales and Systems Integration (Sales and Installations), operations of Solotech UK, while Spencer Beard, formerly Managing Director of Manchester-based Wigwam, will lead the Live Productions (Hire) operations of the UK group. The move…
FOH sound engineer Owen Charles (Yungblud, Jay Electronica, MF DOOM, Dusky) chooses tools from Waves Audio, including the eMotion LV1 Live Mixer and Waves plugins, for the 2019 tour by Australian electronic/drum-and-bass act Pendulum. Since debuting in 2003, Pendulum have released three studio albums and have become one of the most acclaimed live acts in the world, thanks to their breakneck mix of Drum & Bass and aggressive rock elements. Charles explains how his Waves eMotion LV1 software mixer, where each of the mixer’s channels has its own plugin rack capable of running up to eight SoundGrid-compatible plugins, brings his…
Lighting and stage design studio M3 Studio in Bucharest, Romania selected a large complement of Claypaky fixtures for the latest tour by Andra, the best-selling Romanian pop and folk artist. Claypaky SharBars, Alpha Spot 800 QWOs, A.leda Wash K10s and Sharpys helped illuminate Andra’s 10 dates, scheduled from April to September across Romania. M3 Studio, known for providing visual creativity for bands, clubs and shows, was charged with designing a compact show that would be easy to rig in the short time intervals available at each stop on the tour. A mobile stage was chosen for fast deployment on the…
For nearly four weeks this past summer, the Swiss town of Vevey on Lake Geneva came alive when one million visitors participated in the 12th Winegrowers’ Festival. The Fête des Vignerons takes place once in a generation and pays homage to century-old traditions of wine-growing. Recognized by UNESCO on its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the celebration unites an entire region of winegrowers with the local community. The highlight of the festival is Le Spectacle, a three-hour show performed in a temporary arena featuring 5,500 amateur actors in costume, 1,000 choral singers, and hundreds of musicians. To ensure…
Prolight Concepts Group have continued to expand its elumen LED blinder line up and broaden its horizons by adding these fixtures to the mix. The IP rated Fury series are available in either 2 or 4 cell versions and come loaded with 90W COB LEDs, providing intense tungsten emulation. This provides the designer with a ‘hybrid’ blinder and strobe unit in one fixture, with the added RGB backlight feature giving no end of possibilities for both indoor and outdoor installations, stage, theatre, live or touring applications. Chris Beesley, Product Sourcing Manager said: “The combination of an energy saving, halogen emulating…
On November 13 2019, Björk kicked off the European portion of her Cornucopia tour deploying a d&b Soundscape Immersive sound system as the show scales up dramatically from its debut in New York’s new arts centre, The Shed, to a comprehensive run of large scale arena dates including London’s O2 arena. Cornucopia is Björk’s most elaborate stage production to date, incorporating stunning visuals, intricate stage movements and a fully integrated immersive sound design. Cornucopia’s sound was designed by Björk and FoH Sound Engineer John Gale, supported by Southby Productions, and Steve Jones from d&b, utilizing the d&b En-Scene object-based mixing…
Event production company GENETIC Productions is out with Morgan Wallen as the rising country music star opens as direct support on Luke Combs’ Beer Never Broke My Heart Tour, a North American stretch that wraps in mid-December with shows at 20,000-capacity Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. GENETIC has again supplied an Elation rig for the singer after having supplied Wallen’s inaugural headlining tour, Up Down, last year. GENETIC serves as the lighting and video vendor for the outing, working closely with designer Zac Coren. The lighting rig packs a punch with tight 3-degree beams from Elation DARTZ 360 LED moving heads…
James Thomas Engineering’s conical truss Multicubes have been designed to increase the strength of your truss structure corners, while offering six different truss connection points with integrated location holes for expanding your structure’s versatility. All multicubes are available in regular and heavy-duty versions, and are compatible with JT22 Quatro, JT30 Quatro, JT30H Quatro and JT40H Quatro truss. In fact, the heavy-duty multicube provides enough strength to reach the maximum loading capacity of your truss. Male and female receiver accessories are available for convenient, trouble-free connections. Discover the heavy-duty hinge design of JTE’s conical truss Bookcorners with 0 – 1800 adjustability…
The winners have been decided: Two Adam Hall Group products have been honored with the internationally renowned German Design Award 2020 – the Cameo ZENIT B200 and the LD Systems U300 series. While the battery-operated ZENIT B200 LED spotlight impressed in the “Excellent Product Design – Lighting” category, the U300 series’ radio systems stood out in the “Excellent Product Design – Entertainment” category. Once again a German Design Award recipient, the Adam Hall Group, based in Neu-Anspach, Hesse, is further motivated to continue pursuing its path of developing innovative event technology solutions in close cooperation with its customers. Both the…
After captivating audiences throughout South America and the Caribbean to establish himself as reggaeton’s reigning megastar, Colombian singer J Balvin has further expanded his global fan base on the current, four-continent Arcoiris Tour. To anchor audio production for the recently concluded North American leg, the tour relied on a Meyer Sound LEO Family line array system supplied by PRG Music Group. The Meyer Sound option was strongly favoured by John Buitrago, J Balvin’s FOH engineer for the past 11 years. For Buitrago, the LEO Family system provides a unique combination of accuracy, coverage uniformity and low-end potency. “I love mixing…
Thomas Gottschalk gathered a who’s who of 80’s cult stars at the TUI Arena in Hannover for Gottschalk’s Big 80s Show. Performances by Kim Wilde, Paul Young, Thomas Anders, Marc Almond and many more could be experienced on the set’s four show stages, with the concert broadcast by ZDF. Lighting cameraman / gaffer for the production was Michael Donecker. Frank Hofmann — better known as FH — from Scan Design Berlin was responsible for the show lighting design of a production that lasted for several hours. FH, who developed a penchant for lighting design early in life, today works predominantly…
