The 17,368 capacity “Pino Zaccheria” stadium, the home field of Foggia soccer team located in Italyʼs south-eastern Apulia region (nicknamed the “Red and Black Devils of the South”), recently underwent an in-depth upgrade in order to meet the latest specifications for the country’s Serie B (the equivalent of the second division).
Widely regarded as ‘The King of Latin Pop’ and one of the most successful and popular Hispanic / Latin recording stars of all time, singer / songwriter and record producer Enrique Iglesias strutted his high octane stagecraft for the latest European section of his “Enrique Live” tour, complete with a slick, eye-catching visual design by creative director Travis Shirley.
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.
The 29th edition of the Golden Melody Award (GMAs) staged in the 15,000 seat Taipei Arena presented a golden opportunity for Robe’s RoboSpot remote follow spotting system to show its flexibility and scope – the first time it’s been used in Taiwan.
Taking place at the Boston Opera House in May, TEDxCambridge 2018 brought together 2,500 people to hear seven distinguished speakers share innovative new ideas during one inspirational evening.
Lighting designer Thomas Dechandon of the 4eleven collective created a stunning show for French superstar pop-rock band Indochine’s recent tour, including over 200 Robe moving lights on the rig – with MegaPointes, Spiiders, LEDBeam 150s – plus a 6-way RoboSpot remote follow spotting system that was run by three operators.
Updating the audio system in traditional churches to successfully host a wider variety of worship styles is a problem faced by many systems integrators. It’s a problem that Alcons Audio pro-ribbon systems are well-equipped to solve, as the latest in a number of recent US house of worship (HoW) installations proves.
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.
Countless parties take place on May Day in Germany and this year one of the best took place in Cologne as hometown band Brings rocked Lanxess Arena with a high-energy Polka Party. TSL Production of Cologne supported the event as the full-service technical provider and used a full complement of Elation lighting gear to support the howling rock ‘n’ roll show.
Since opening in late-2011, Huntington, New York’s The Paramount has quickly established itself as the premier live venue on Long Island, one of the country’s top-20 media markets. In fact, Pollstar magazine just ranked The Paramount as the #5 top club venue for worldwide ticket sales throughout 2017, and Billboard ranked it as part of their top-30 “Hottest Clubs” list in 2014.
Penn Elcom GmbH in Germany has moved to a new 8,000 square metre premises in Elten, north Westfalen just 10 kilometres from the previous warehouse – and over double the size!
Barcelona based lighting designer Ezequiel Gomez has enjoyed working on Spanish Singer David Bisbal’s latest “Hijos del Mar” tour which has already played Spain and Latin America and is poised for more of the same in 2018. He chose Robe for the majority of the moving lights with Spiiders, Pointes and LEDWash 300s as key fixtures on the rig.
Equaphon, Powersoft’s distributor in Argentina and Uruguay, was called to carry out one more successful sound installation project for a discotheque. The Banana nightclub has been working since April this year and it is located beside the Río de la Plata river in Buenos Aires.
NEP Belgium run their first unit of the Broadcast Solutions developed Streamline OB Van family. Unit 18, the newly added production vehicle, is an S8L and represents a new variant, the German system integrator added to its Streamline Family of OB Vans.
Joshua Cutts is someone who knows how to make things – stages, sets people – look beautiful, and 2018 was the fourth time he has lit the Miss South Africa beauty pageant event, which this year selected the country’s delegates for the two highest profile global beauty contests - Miss Universe and Miss World.
One of the world’s most recognized electronic music events, Miami Music Week, brings hundreds of thousands of people to experience a week-long marathon of festivities that feature almost every major artist in the electronic dance music scene. Last year alone, more than 1,200 artists performed at roughly 300 events hosted at 85 venues.
Cove Manila is Southeast Asia’s newest entertainment space, an amazing 9,000-sqm, $200 million entertainment venue touted as the largest indoor beach club in the world. Located in Okada Manila, a five-star integrated resort in the Philippines capital, Cove Manila also includes a luxurious nightclub that’s putting the country on the map as an EDM stop for top DJs.
