Tears for Fears was one of the UK bands who helped define the sound of 1980s pop-rock with classics like “Shout”- and this year they are back on the road in style, kicking off 2019 with a sold-out UK and European arena tour for which lighting designer Alex Reardon, from LA-based creative design practice Silent House, delivered a stunning lighting scheme.
The 2019 Olivier Awards marked the official launch of a brand-new audio system at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Completed at the end of last year, installing this game-changing system at the world’s busiest venue in its busiest year, and doing it with no interruption to its schedule, was no small task. But it was one that audiovisual production supplier SFL met with professionalism.
Scottish synth-pop trio Chvrches went on a stepped-up UK tour in support of their latest album, Love is Dead. Glasgow-based concert audio supplier, FE Live, designed a d&b audiotechnik KSL System to deliver the group’s journey through pop, indie and EDM to audiences in venues of varying capacity.
Almost 140 years ago Edison invented the light bulb, giving the entire world the gift of light. And now Showtec presents a classy way to dim it. Introducing the Showtec Edison Dot E1, Edison Star E6 and Edison Bar E6, three stylish retro-like fixtures equipped with E27 sockets.
Drawing more than 2.5 million visitors to Houston’s NRG Stadium over its three-week run, this year’s RODEOHOUSTON® was a record-breaking success on multiple counts.
The legendary German pop rock group “PUR’ is known throughout Germany for their string of #1 hits from the 1990’s and 2000’s. They’ve ridden this wave of success for decades and still maintain a strong following with a constant touring schedule throughout the country.
20 years ago the former central railway station in the German spa town of Baden-Baden was repurposed as the ticket office and foyer for a brand new venue, Festival Hall Baden-Baden, the country’s largest venue for opera, ballet and live classical music. Thanks to its state-of-the-art acoustics, Festival Hall Baden-Baden is renowned for its excellent sound.
Lawo is pleased to present for the first time in Germany a new series of AoIP stageboxes at Prolight + Sound 2019 as part of the well-established A__line family of AoIP devices: the WAN-capable, A__stage series of live-performance interfaces, with premium features such as discrete Class A Mic preamps, advanced digital A/D FIR filtering, and SMPTE 2022-7 Seamless Protection Switching (SPS), providing two discrete, redundant network links to ensure network connection stability.
Pioneer Pro Audio is on tour. The loudspeaker manufacturer recently took elements of its range out on the road to give stakeholders a close-up, hands-on experience of system performance, during a series of all-day events across Europe.
Las Vegas-based H.A.S. Productions has once again expanded its VUE inventory with the purchase of 24 additional al-12 line array elements. The new systems join a sizable VUE inventory comprised of al-12, al-8, and al-4 line arrays, as well as hs-Class subwoofers, VUEDrive Systems Engines, and a broad selection of both a-Class and h-Class high definition systems.
Installation company ISKRATRADE chose an entire WORK PRO audio system to ensure that a new swimming pool complex in Croatia delivered the very best sound and speech intelligibility.
The Arlette Gruss Circus is well known for its love of technology and reinvention, constantly keeping their shows fresh and new … so this year, when they changed up their old Big Top for an even more spangly new one, they also embraced a new Robe RoboSpot system.
Brown Note Productions’ newly established installed-sound division brings first L-Acoustics project to the state, providing full-range, rider-ready sound to this classic venue, accommodating a new generation of touring music and theatrical productions.
Twenty-four Astera AX1 Pixel Tubes were utilised for one of 20 stunning site-specific lighting installations created by individual artists for the first UMBRA Light Festival in Vitoria-Gastiez, Spain.
Legendary rockers KISS launched their farewell “End of the Road” world tour in Vancouver in late January and use a multitude of Elation DARTZ 360™ effects as key visuals in the dynamic, multi-sensory show.
MILOS gives lighting designers a new lease on creative freedom with a worldwide first – Ultimate Hinge.
Broadcast Solutions GmbH, together with Bangladesh Betar state broadcasting provider, implemented the first two FM radio stations with digital production technology in the country outside the capital Dhaka.
