Few artists enjoy the same iconic reverence as Gladys Knight. A seven-time Grammy Award winner with seemingly boundless talent spanning music, film, and television, her effortless and soulful style first broke through as the frontwoman for Gladys Knight & the Pips.
Every year in late October, DJs, artists, dance music fans and industry professionals flock from around the world to the Netherlands’ capital for Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE). Taking over the city for five days, ADE is the world’s leading conference, festival and cultural playground for electronic music.
700.000 people attended The Experience, an interdenominational gospel concert in Nigeria that has become the largest music event in Africa.
Zhang Jie (张杰), also known as Jason Zhang, is a musical phenomenon in China. He started out on the My Show TV talent contest in 2004 and has since released 12 studio albums. His latest Future Live tour has filled stadiums across the nation, including a show at the Beijing National Stadium (Bird's Nest) for 80,000 fans.
At a concert of the Queen tribute band "MerQury" in Merkers, Thuringia, the Line Array System HDL 30-A from RCF proved its quick and easy install and the delivery of perfect sound even under extreme conditions.
Stereophonics released their 10th album last year, Scream Above the Sounds, which comes almost 20 years after the Welsh rockers first stormed the BRITs back in 1998, and won the award for British Breakthrough Act. The band's longevity speaks for itself: eight million albums sold in the UK alone, six number one records, a BRIT Award, three Kerrang!
Show da Virada is Brazil’s greatest end-of-year event, a televised special broadcasted on New Year’s Eve on Rede Globo. This year’s special featured some of the nation’s biggest music stars and hosts, including Ivete Sangalo, Wesley Safadão, Luan Santana, Simone & Simaria, Raça Negra and Thiaguinho.
Prominent Czech sound engineer Jiri Jehlar always insists on the best sound for every production that he works on. One of the first front of house engineers in the Czech Republic to use digital mixers, Jiri was so impressed with the Yamaha RIVAGE PM7 digital mixing system that he has invested in one.
At Coachella 2018, the sheer engineering expertise of Powersoft Audio was manifest amidst an unprecedented display of super-low frequency soundwave propagation for thousands of excited music fans.
Over the past decade, Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon has emerged from the woods of Wisconsin as one of modern music’s most inventive songsmiths. Although his group’s musical path may have started out sounding something more akin to folk music, Vernon’s trajectory over the course of his last couple of records has explored everything.
Pukkelpop is Belgium’s second largest festival and prides itself on its ‘alternative’ label. Featuring performances by nearly 100 different artists on eight stages over four days, this year three Yamaha RIVAGE series digital mixing systems were in use, along with Nexo PAs.
When platinum selling Glaswegian pop-rockers Del Amitri took a break in 2002 their members dispersed for more than 10 years. A reunion show involving founder members in 2013 at Glasgow SSE Hydro attracted 8000 fans and began a journey that has seen the band return to touring.
Seattle’s native sons return for first “Home Shows” in five years, raising nearly $11 million to combat homelessness, then head off to play sold-out “Away Shows” at stadiums in Missoula, Chicago, and Boston with Rat Sound’s L-Acoustics K1 system.
Adlib first supplied audio kit for the hugely talented and enigmatic American singer, songwriter, rapper and actress Janelle Monáe in 2008 at that time she was a hotly tipped future star, flying high on the just released Grammy-nominated and critically acclaimed EP Metropolis: The Chase Suite.
Adlib was delighted to be the audio supplier for the incredible – and apparently final – Giant Spectacular show staged in Liverpool, produced by the iconic street and outdoor theatre company Royal de Luxe, who are based in Nantes, France.
This summer saw Canadian chanteuse Céline Dion tour the Asia Pacific. Kicking off in Tokyo and Macao, where she had last performed ten years earlier, the tour moved on to new territory for the five-time Grammy Award winner, including Jakarta, Taipei, Manila, Bangkok and Australia, before concluding in Auckland, New Zealand.
The fast growth in popularity of Amsterdam’s Oranjebloesem festival called for a louder, higher quality and more directional sound solution in one of The Netherlands’ most built-up cities. Peak Audio constructed a d&b GSL system to achieve just that.
From its early 1990s origins as a touring festival to its 2005 revival in Chicago, Lollapalooza has blossomed into a global festival phenomenon. This year, crowds gathering at Lollapalooza’s two largest stages—the Grant Park Stage and Bud Light Stage—heard their favorite songs better than ever thanks to L-Acoustics K1/K2 loudspeaker systems.
In July 2015 an ambitious plan was hatched to get the attention of Foo Fighters and convince them to play a gig in Cesena, Italy, by gathering a thousand musicians to perform their song Learn to Fly. The video of the event went viral and Foo Fighters duly performed in the city four months later. But that was just the start.
Held in the port town of Barcarès on France’s southern coast, Electrobeach is the country’s largest electronic music festival, featuring more than 100 DJs and hosting around 100,000 people over its three days. For this year’s event organisers broke new ground by employing Funktion-One sound systems on all four of its stages.
Tomorrowland, held over two scorching weekends this July in the Belgium town of Boom, is one of the world’s foremost music festivals. Its organisers, We Are One World are always on the hunt for imaginative ways to unite hundreds of thousands of fans from around the globe at this unique event.
It had been more than 20 years since the EMAs descended on London, but it certainly did not look or sound that way at the SSE Arena on November 12, 2017. Hosted by Rita Ora, the production was in the safe hands of long-time MTV audio supplier, Britannia Row, whose specification this time around was dominated by DiGiCo.
