Kinesys Helps Westlife 20 Tour Fly Live by Thomas Richard - August 12, 2019 Popular Irish singing group / boyband Westlife reformed and hit the road again this summer in what one of the most popular and successful reformation campaigns. The first UK arena leg of the Twenty Tour culminated in two phenomenal shows in Croke Park stadium in Dublin, packed with 170,000 wildly
Robe Jazzes it Up in Ghent Live by Thomas Richard - August 12, 2019 Mainstage artists at the 2019 Ghent Jazz Festival were illuminated by 86 Robe moving lights – including 35 brand-new T1s – in a slick production lighting design created by Bart Weyts of L&L Stage Services, the company providing technical production - lightning, audio and video - for that stage. The event
DJs Party with dBTechnologies’ VIO at Tropical Festival Live by Thomas Richard - August 11, 2019 The Tropical Beach Festival in Landau is the biggest House & Electro Festival in German area, Palatinate. To get the crowd in the right beach feeling, several tons of sand were poured onto the asphalted venue providing the right ambience for the more than 5,000 visitors to the "City Beach". Also,
A Summer Story Festival Goes Spectacular with Claypaky Fixtures Live by Thomas Richard - August 11, 2019 “A Summer Story” has become one of the epicentres of electronic music in Spain. This year’s festival, the 5th annual, featured performances by more than 70 artists and was produced by Disorder Events. It showcased gigantic screens and spectacular lighting combining tungsten and LED technologies and required the most powerful
COUNTRY STAR CRAIG MORGAN GOES ALL ALLEN & HEATH Live by Thomas Richard - August 11, 2019 Craig Morgan's FOH engineer Robert Harmon test drove Allen & Heath's dLive S5000 and refused to give it back. With a career spanning 19 years, 12 songs that have made Billboard's country charts, and word of a new major label record deal in the offing, country artist Craig Morgan is on
TiMax spatialises Spitfire Sisters at The Space Live by Thomas Richard - August 11, 2019 The latest production from Space Productions, the in-house company at off West End performance venue The Space, tells a story never really told, against a dynamic and eye-opening immersive sound design by the company’s Keri Chesser, who added impressive realism and intense drama using TiMax. A five-star review of the production
Jean-Christophe Aubrée Lights Indochine Stadium With 794 GLP Fixtures Live by Thomas Richard - August 11, 2019 The French production designer Jean-Christophe Aubrée has taken over the lighting for two major stadium shows, featuring legendary French band Indochine (aka Indo). It was a comfortable position for Aubrée, to find himself in. Having previously worked with other well-known artists, and formerly operated in an assistant design capacity with Indo,
d&b Soundscape Stage wows WOMAD 2019 Live by Thomas Richard - August 11, 2019 The 2019 UK incarnation of the art and music festival, WOMAD, once again featured the d&b Soundscape (watch), delivering an enhanced live sound experience that equally served the huge dynamic range of program, the touring front of house engineers, the artists, and the musically inquisitive audiences . The WOMAD d&b Soundscape
PR LIGHTING OUT IN FORCE AT ZARATE ‘FRIENDSHIP’ PARTY Live by Thomas Richard - August 11, 2019 PR Lighting fixtures were out in force when a group of associates (and event planners) known as the Burkina took over the Zarate Yacht Club on the outskirts of Buenos Aires in Argentina to celebrate the country’s annual ‘Friendship Day’. The ensuing ‘Fiesta Burkina’ saw 3,000 people revelling under the lighting
RCF at Electro Festival in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany Live by Thomas Richard - August 11, 2019 Thanks to the building association of the same name, the name "Schwäbisch Hall" has reserved a permanent place in the collective memory in Germany. That there is also a self- proclaimed "up-and-coming cultural” city behind it is demonstrated by its strong cultural orientation. One "brick" of this orientation is also the