Held in the aptly-named Belgian town of Boom, Tomorrowland is one of the biggest electronic music festivals on the planet. The 2016 event attracted 60,000 people on each of three days in July, with almost 600 cabinets of L-Acoustics loudspeakers specified for no less than eight areas, including the huge Main Stage.
If you seek inspiration and perhaps a dose of humility, you might visit Montreal's magnificent Marie-Reine-Du-Monde Basilique Cathedrale (Mary Queen of the World Cathedral Basilica). The interior may not be quite as grand as the Vatican's St.
Located on 12 acres in the Link Valley community of southwest Houston, Emery/Weiner School is an independent Jewish day school serving grades 6 through 12. Its campus offers many impressive features, including state-of-the-art science and computer labs, art and music studios, a proscenium theater, and a new, full-length football field, Caress Stadium.
Rachel Platten exploded onto the mainstream last year after her 'Fight Song' ranked 6th in the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached the UK Top 10 Singles chart. Her label-debut album 'Wildfire' then achieved Gold status and to round things off, ‘Stand by You’, the second single from the album topped the Adult Pop Songs charts in February this year.
In 2011, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds released their debut album and embarked on an understated tour of theatre sized venues. Since then the band hasn’t stopped and 2016 has seen it embark on a world tour, with an L-Acoustics audio system provided by Britannia Row Productions.
Hugely popular in their native Denmark and with success in recent years in Europe, four-piece pop-soul band Lukas Graham has enjoyed a recent rise to global success, with their single 7 years hailed by Billboard magazine as one of 2016’s biggest global hits. Their current world tour is proving equally successful, as is the extremely compact DiGiCo S21 mixing console they carry in their travel kit.
Concert by Ringo Starr marks the Englewood, NJ, performing arts center change its model from renting to owning its own sound system.
DiGiCo SD Consoles Touring with Luke Bryan, Little Big Town and Dustin Lynch Mix the Debut Live Music Event at U.S. Bank Stadium, the New Home of the NFL Minnesota Vikings.
Daktronics fields a Dante audio network to support the largest video display in college football.
Argentina-based MIDAS and KLARK TEKNIK rental company, Perrone Sonido, has been conducting in-depth training with sound engineers to build on MIDAS’ presence in the country. The rental company, led by Carlos Maria Perrone, has just recently hosted a two month series of training seminars in the country’s capital of Buenos Aires.
Throughout 2016, Yamaha’s flagship RIVAGE PM10 digital mixing console has been seen on an increasing number of events and tours, giving engineers the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the state-of-the-art system. In late July it was specified by Swiss rental company Hyperson SA for Paléo Festival Nyon —Switzerland’s biggest music festival —where it was the star of a show which also featured several other Yamaha digital mixers.
The Slovakian government holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union from July to December 2016, a role which rotates between member states every six months. Yamaha TF1 digital mixing consoles have been chosen for the vital role of mixing the local and broadcast audio for ministerial meetings, leader summits and press conferences.
As one of Thailand's oldest institutions of higher learning, Bangkok's Thammasat University has long inspired its staff and students to honor the school motto and "be the finest."
MIDAS’ flagship console, the PRO X, was put to use as America’s largest pops orchestra, The Philly POPS, opened festivities for Wawa Welcome America, Philadelphia’s citywide Fourth of July celebrations.
Natasha Khan, aka Bat for Lashes, is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her monitor engineer is Arron James Smith, who has been working with her on the promo tour for her new album The Bride, a three date run of churches and cathedrals in the UK and her appearances on Europe’s summer festival circuit. His console of choice is a DiGiCo S21.
Zero Gravity, a popular beach club, bar and restaurant situated on the perimeter of Skydive Dubai, unveiled its much-anticipated 2,000m2 expansion in March, including a 39m glass-fronted infinity swimming pool, 800sq/ft (75m2) multi-use stage and one of the world’s first permanent installations of L-Acoustics X Series.
This year's Exmouth Festival saw the UK debut of Proel's brand new Axiom AX800A compact line array, used for the very first time at a live event after the first units of the new product began shipping this month.
This spring, three times MOBO award winner Beverley Knight completed a tour of UK theatres. DiGiCo SD10-24 digital mixing consoles, supplied by audio rental company Capital Sound Hire, graced both her Front of House and monitor positions.
UK-based singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding is currently in the middle of an extensive tour that kicked off in Europe in January with Adlib Audio and includes two North American legs extending into late June, with European and US festival dates plus shows in Australia and New Zealand keeping her on the road through mid-October.
In May of 2011, a catastrophic F-5 category tornado ripped through Joplin, killing 158 people and leaving a mile-wide swath of devastation in its wake. Joplin High School was one of many buildings destroyed, its students and faculty forced to scatter among multiple temporary homes while the community has rebuilt.
On Saturday 2nd July, L-ISA live was deployed at Berlin Waldbühne for a concert of the most famous Disney film melodies performed by the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin.
When renowned club owners Mudassar Muneer and Anand Yadav set out to build a brand new 500-capacity nightclub, they knew they wanted to bring the very best elements of international clubbing to Hyderabad’s posh HiTechCity. With the mission of giving the city a genuinely outstanding social hub, they brought their many years of travel experience, seeking out the world’s best clubbing experiences back to India.
