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.
AURUS platinum, the flagship of Berlin-based manufacturer Stage Tec, made its debut as a FOH console in China. At the end of July, a cross-over concert with music by Zhang Hong Guang, one of China's most popular composers, was performed in front of an audience of 18,000 at the Cadillac Arena in Beijing.
The parent company of the Mackie brand, LOUD Audio, LLC has concluded the sale of Eastern Acoustics Works to RCF Group, a leading Pro-Audio company with its headquarters in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
As much of western Europe has basked in high summer temperatures, many thousands of happy revellers have been enjoying the annual crop of outdoor festivals. Sound engineers lucky enough to be using Yamaha’s RIVAGE PM7 digital mixing system at these events have been very happy too.
Multi-Platinum, Grammy-nominated artist Logic, among the top streaming artists in the world with streams running into the billions, is on the road with The Bobby Tarantino vs. Everybody Tour, a 33-date summer amphitheater and arena run produced by Live Nation with support from rising hip-hop artists NF and Kyle.
A vibrant village of custom-created performance spaces and entertainment zones, Farr Festival recently returned for another successful edition – thanks to the superlative sounds of Funktion-One systems used across the festival site.
With his song Riptide a huge international hit, sold-out stadium tours with Taylor Swift, and a current tour that is covering the US, Australia, South America and Europe, Australian singer songwriter Vance Joy’s story is one of continuing success, which comes with the need for a world-class monitor engineer.
Audio Feed’s Funktion-One systems delivered high quality sound to all stages at Bulgaria’s high-altitude festival-with-a-view. Nestled high in the Rhodope Mountains that line Bulgaria’s border with Greece, Meadows in the Mountains (MITM) is an annual festival that provides an experience both musically and geographically outside the mainstream - and off the beaten track.
Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Sponsor, Norwest Productions, deploys L-Acoustics system for sporting ceremonies and venues, achieving even SPL and high intelligibility at Gold Coast’s biggest ever sporting event this decade.
It takes someone special to fill the shoes of a showman like Freddie Mercury, and although there is no replacing such a talent, Adam Lambert is quite sensational as both a vocalist and frontman in his own right – enough so for Queen founder members, Brian May and Roger Taylor, to tour relentlessly with him as a trio for the last seven years.
The story of the film La La Land is so unlikely that it almost had to come out of a college dorm room. Damien Chazelle and Justin Hurwitz were Harvard roomies when they first started working on an idea for a jazz musical about both a struggling musician and an aspiring actress, and it took years to convince someone to finance it.
There’s nothing funny about the comedy business: when everything is riding on the setup and the punch line, the sound has to be absolutely perfect. That’s why the top-earning comics on tour today—names like Amy Schumer and Kevin Hart—have looked to Frederick, Maryland based Showtime Sound LLC and its president/CEO, Scott Tydings, to make sure that their audiences “get it.”
In October 2017, former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher released his debut solo album, As You Were. The record went straight in at number one in the UK, and went gold in its first week, outselling the rest of the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart combined. It has since been certified platinum.
