Festivals are back. That’s the simple message that sprang loud and clear from the renewal of Horst Arts and Music Festival which took place recently at Vilvoorde in Belgium.
Rob Bettle for Sound Quiet Time and Carolyn Downing design sound for ‘Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World’. Produced by Kenny Wax of SIX fame, the new pop musical, ‘Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World’ opened in Liverpool in April and is currently in the midst of a nationwide UK tour.
In the heart of a thriving section of Birmingham, stands the Birmingham/Jefferson Convention Complex (BJCC) located in the Uptown Entertainment District. The multi-use complex boasts 220,000 square feet of flexible space which serves as a conference and entertainment destination for the city.
Having played host to some of British culture’s most iconic moments over the years, the BRIT Awards returned to London’s O2 Arena complete with performances by Adele, Ed Sheeran, Bring Me The Horizon, Little Simz, Liam Gallagher, Sam Fender, Dave, Anne-Marie, KSI, and Rising Star Award recipient, Holly Humberstone.
With an evolved sound and a seventh studio album to share with their fans, You Me at Six (YMAS) have recently returned to the road with a live show two years in the making and a streamlined audio package courtesy of Britannia Row Productions.
Founded in 1993, The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity was originally created as a one-off event to raise money for medical equipment, raising over $1.5m that year.
The godfather of electronic music, Jean-Michel Jarre recently premiered his latest opus ‘Oxymore’ in a series of headline performances at the inaugural edition of Radio France’s innovative Hyper Weekend Festival in Paris.
When three-time Grammy Award-winning country duo Dan + Shay hit the road in March of 2020 for their first official headlining US arena tour, they played three consecutive sold-out shows.
Cirque du Soleil has reopened its enthralling spectacle, LUZIA, at London’s Royal Albert Hall for a seven week run. The show transports audiences to an imaginary Mexico where light quenches the spirit and rain soothes the soul.
Although everyone from The Doors to Lenny Kravitz has famously claimed in their songs that “rock is dead,” you’d have a hard time convincing the sold-out crowds that attended any of the recent Danny Wimmer Presents (DWP) music festivals.
On February 13, 2022, the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. As one of the most highly anticipated sports events of the year, Super Bowl LVI had a record viewership of over 112 million.
Justin Vernon and his band celebrated the tenth anniversary of Bon Iver, Bon Iver with two YouTube Theater concerts that drew rave reviews for their sound and intimacy.
While the COVID pandemic compelled performing arts companies to stretch their horizons to reach audiences, Michigan Opera Theatre went further than many during the period; for instance, presenting programs in the Detroit Opera House parking garage, among other nontraditional venues for opera.
The Japanese city of Chiba, which stands on Tokyo Bay and is famous among other things for having the world’s longest suspended monorail system, recently hosted the first two days of “uP!!! Special Live Holic extra 2022” (supported by Space Shower TV) in its huge Makuhari Messe complex.
Mexico’s Day Zero Festival marked its 10th year in style with Funktion-One sound systems -from distributor and rental partner Loto Audio - on all three stages.
Brit Floyd, billed as “the World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show,” decided to use a Solid State Logic L200 digital mixing console at front-of-house. He returned to the road this summer following a yearlong hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Since 1988 The Australian Pink Floyd Show have recreated with uncanny accuracy the look and sound of Pink Floyd’s later world tours, complete with lasers, inflatables and a large circular upstage projection screen.
Located in the eastern Dutch town of Hengelo, the Metropool is a long-established live music venue featuring a huge range of acts and genres.
Before any entertainer ever sets foot on its stage, Club Regent Event Centre is already equipped to put on an amazing show with its computer-automated flexible seating system, which can adapt in minutes into over a dozen seating configurations for any kind of show.
On the outskirts of Cincinnati, the city of Blue Ash came to life this summer with the sounds of Carmen, Tosca, and The Barber of Seville reimagined for Cincinnati Opera’s Summer at Summit series held outdoors at Summit Park with support from L-Acoustics L-ISA immersive technology.
Changing audio mixing systems is a big decision for live engineers. It can be fraught with difficulty, especially if the specifications don't match the hands-on experience. But, as Foals front of house engineer Nigel Pepper discovered, Yamaha’s RIVAGE PM series completely lives up to its promise.
For over a decade, Minsk Arena has been the epicentre for all things sports and culture in the Belarus capital. The venue’s main space is an ice arena dedicated to hockey and skating which can also be converted to host other sports events, as well as concerts, conferences, and forums.
