Singer, songwriter and guitarist Ali Handal, the latest artist to join Celestion's Partners in Tone programme, explains how she recorded her new album, Slow Burn, and why a single Celestion G12M-65 Creamback speaker housed in a lightweight 1x12 cabinet has become the centrepiece of her live rig.
Turnpike Reggae Festival returned to Germany for two days of roots reggae, modern reggae and dancehall in a welcoming atmosphere. For this volunteer-run event, MA Holtewert expanded its HK Audio system to improve sound coverage and reinforce low-frequency performance.
Eric López and Antonio Chico, Loquillo’s monitor and FOH engineers, explain how they rethought every microphone on the Corazones Legendarios tour. The result: an all-Shure setup with the Nexadyne series, Axient and PSM 1000, plus a new mic for Loquillo’s vocals.
This summer, exactly seven years after his first stadium concert, Ultimo performed for 250,000 people on the Tor Vergata plain, southeast of Rome. The show La Favola per Sempre sold out in three hours and became the largest ticketed concert ever held in Italy.
Rebellion Festival brought tens of thousands of punk fans together at Blackpool's historic Winter Gardens for four days, with more than 300 live performances across six stages.
Bobby Aitken has built the sound of “Pride” on Meyer Sound systems at Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre and the National Theatre’s Dorfman. As the musical moves to London’s Bridge Theatre, he is reshaping the design, with LEOPARD line arrays for the first time.
Jonny “Famous” Williams, front-of-house engineer for Sir Rod Stewart for the past two and a half years, has switched to a Solid State Logic Live L650, supplied by Sound Image (Clair Global Group), for the North American tour, with a rack full of SSL analogue processing.
On Hilary Duff’s the lucky me tour, monitor engineer Nathan Bond runs every mix, from musicians to the technical crew, on a DiGiCo Quantum338 fitted with a DMI-KLANG card that also works as a communications switchboard.
FOH engineer Eds John and monitor engineer Matt Lewis explain how they prepared for Richard Ashcroft's summer festival tour using DiGiCo Q338 and Q852 consoles and Fourier transform.engine.
Milano Show Rent, an L-Acoustics Certified Provider, supplied K Series systems for all stages at Italy's Nameless Festival, where the Red Bull Energy Zone became the first festival stage in Europe to feature an L-Acoustics DJ spatial sound system.
The Elden historical open-air theatre production, staged in the unique setting of Røros, Norway, relied on Outline P12 coaxial monitors for ten consecutive nights of performances, delivering power, clarity and reliability even under the venue's demanding weather conditions.
After restoring the PA system used by Pink Floyd for Live at Pompeii, Chris Hewitt of CH Vintage Audio has completed the restoration and relaunch of the Ground Control PA system used by David Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars era in 1972–73.
Parookaville celebrated its 11th edition from July 17–19 at Weeze Airport in Germany. The festival welcomed nearly 225,000 attendees and featured performances by more than 300 electronic music artists. The lineup included Armin van Buuren, Hardwell, W&W, The Chainsmokers, and Timmy Trumpet.
dBS Solutions provided sound reinforcement for the dance-focused Daresbury Festival, held at Walton Hall and Gardens in Warrington, Cheshire, with Martin Audio systems deployed across all three stages.
For many years, sports venues have used two audio systems: one for the announcer, music and the half-time show, and another, compliant with the EN 54 standard, for evacuations. This meant duplicating loudspeakers and equipment. With L-Acoustics, this duplication is no longer necessary.
The international More To Show team produced an ambitious event at the iconic Sixth Street Bridge in Los Angeles to present the new 4-door Mercedes-AMG GT Coupé, in collaboration with OSK agency.
The stage for 5 Seconds of Summer’s Everyone’s a Star! World Tour breaks away from the traditional rectangular configuration, adopting a ring shape measuring approximately 23 metres in diameter. The band performs on the upstage half in front of a curved video wall, while the downstage section forms a curved thrust extending out into the audience.
Luke Combs closed his My Kinda Saturday Night Tour with three consecutive concerts at Wembley, held between 31 July and 2 August 2026 in front of approximately 90,000 people each night. Guinness World Records recognised him as the first solo country artist to headline a concert at the stadium.
The number 13 may be considered unlucky by some, but for British pop icons Take That, their thirteenth tour, The Circus Live - Summer 2026, has proved anything but.
The summer of 2026 has highlighted the growing scale of lighting productions in Spain, ranging from festivals and international tours to stadium concerts, galas and stage productions.
Villafranca Festival presents a wide-ranging programme of live performances within the historic walls of Castello Scaligero, one of northern Italy’s most distinctive open-air venues.
An expedition between Hawaii and French Polynesia turned the ocean into a spatial capture laboratory: custom hydrophone arrays, protected monitoring and RF microphones to combine the sound worlds above and below the water.
On the M72 World Tour, Metallica relies on Wisycom's RF over Fiber (RFoF) technology to ensure reliable wireless performance at every show. Its infrastructure delivers the scalability, mobility and reliability required for a production of this scale.
Hailed as one of the world's largest live broadcast events, the 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest transformed Vienna's Wiener Stadthalle into a highly complex production environment during its two semi-finals and the Grand Final, held on May 16.
Artus is the first comedian to perform at Paris La Défense Arena, one of the largest indoor venues in Europe. Best known for his stand-up performances, he first rose to national prominence in 2011 through television and radio appearances.
This summer, the Montreux Jazz Festival celebrated its 60th edition, while Meyer Sound marked 40 years as the festival’s Global Official Sound Partner—a dual milestone the two organizations have dubbed 60/40: sixty editions of the festival and forty years of collaboration.
