The Isle of Wight (IOW) Festival is the first major event that sets the UK Music festival season into motion. In its early years, it played host to such leading lights as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell. Since the festival’s revival in 2002, it has stayed true to its heritage of drawing some of the biggest acts in the music business. Headliners have included everyone from The Who, Robert Plant and the Rolling Stones to Paul Weller, Stereophonics and Pearl Jam.

For the third year in a row, Icon Broadcast Group, a production company based in the Netherlands handled the live operations for VESTROCK festival, engaging the audience through social media.

For dance music aficionados, Ultra Music Festival and its related events are global hot tickets. Billed as the world’s premier electronic music festival, it attracts elite dance DJs and artists such as Martin Garrix, Hardwell, Avicii, Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, Deadmau5 and Eric Prydz who perform to thousands of people at 18 events across the world, from Croatia to Tokyo.

Robe was one of the first manufacturers to start producing multi-purpose or hybrid fixtures with the launch of The Pointe in 2013, followed by its signature BMFL range of fixtures, the first of which hit the market in September 2014. Both BMFLs and Pointes being seen on a wide variety of tours, shows and events worldwide … they are being specified by leading lighting, visual and show designers and invested in by rental companies of all sizes.

German rock titan Udo Lindenberg has started his “Keine Panik!” (“Don’t panic!”) 2016 German tour. Fans love the 70-year-old chart topper. More than half a million people have attended his concerts in the past three years, and in 2016 the stadiums and halls are packed again! It was not surprising that, in the run-up to the tour, an additional concert had to be scheduled at almost every venue. satis&fy, leading international provider of cutting-edge event, media technology and scenic design solutions from Karben near Frankfurt am Main, Germany, was responsible for the sound on Udo Lindenberg’s “Keine Panik! Tour 2016.” The company is international in scope, employing over 500 people. satis&fy’s fleet of vehicles and store of materials is one of the biggest and most up to date of German live event companies.

Having completed the design of Coldplay’s all new, Wigwam built control system, digital design specialist Alex Hadjigeorgiou, along with Account Manager, Chris Hill, have taken the technical design lead for the fibre infrastructure on the band’s latest trans-Atlantic tour, A Headful of Dreams.

For the fiftieth time, the Montreux Jazz Festival invited the international Jazz scene to the little town on Lake Geneva. This jubilee, which took place from July 1-16, was celebrated with a fully packed programme including major talents from today and yesterday. The programme reads even more like the who’s who of Jazz and related genres than ever before.

On 27^th August 2015, audio specialist Sennheiser presented an extraordinary concert at London’s Central Hall Westminster, featuring performances by Grammy award-winning artist Imogen Heap and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie orchestra conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer. The concert was part of an exclusive event that kicked off Sennheiser’s “Reshaping excellence” campaign, celebrating Sennheiser’s 70-year history of innovation and offering a very first look at the audio specialist’s next milestone audiophile product. The concert – including two world-firsts – was mixed in truly cutting-edge fashion by Tonmeister Gregor Zielinsky to demonstrate the immense potential of 3D immersive audio.

The Metropole Orchestra is an institution. Originally public, the orchestra used to play as the national jazz and pop orchestra for the Netherlands Radio, Television and Broadcast Company. Composed by professional musicians, the band has played with numerous famous artists since its creation in 1945.

In the mid-‘70s, Live Sound became Audio-Technica’s passion. But it was a long, hard journey from the early days of its performance microphones 30 years ago to the widespread use of Audio-Technica’s state-of-the-art wireless mics on concert stages across the various genres of the music industry today. The earliest Live Sound line targeted performing musicians looking for a great value in an affordable microphone for vocals and instruments. But like other Audio-Technica users, they often got much, much more.

Out once again on tour with Muse, lighting designer Oli Metcalfe is the first LD to use the new High End Systems Hog 4 control system. During a recent string of shows in the UK and Europe, Metcalfe had the opportunity to swap out his Full Boar console for the new Hog 4 desk. Metcalfe's design is already turning heads for its creative implementation of video surfaces across a giant articulating pyramid that symbolizes the system of power and global politics; his approach to networking and control is similarly cutting-edge.

During his "Berlin Calling Tour" Paul Kalkbrenner performed on 17 April 2010 in the Jahrhunder Halle in Frankfurt. Pfadfinderei, an internationally renowned design collective, was responsible for the visualization of Kalkbrenners performance on the stage. For the lighting effects Max Schöntag was in charge. A team of cameramen around Max Penzel recorded the event in High Definition.

Schoeps offers microphone arrangements for almost every available surround recording technique. Many surround microphone arrangements can be assembled with our standard microphones. Special accessories then allow for optimal usage of these microphones.Since there is essentially an infinite variety of ways to design a surround microphone arrangement, only a selection will be presented here:
• Double MS
• IRT Cross
• KFM Surround
• OCT Surround
• ORTF Surround

One of the world’s favourite opera masterpieces – Aida - is among the most popular works by Giuseppe Verdi. In October Aida was performed in a very original form on the stage of the Moscow International House of Music (MMDM). It was the first time the famous opera, which has been performed for 140 years, was accompanied by unique large-scale projections created by 360Project Company. Svetlanov Hall of MMDM was full of the spirit and icons of Ancient Egypt. The installation included two Christie Roadster S+20K, two Christie HD10K-M alongside slide projectors.

Music attracts millions. Recent tours of Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi drew morethan two million visitors each. But music alone is not enough for a memorable experience.Stage, lighting and video are almost as important if you want to create a memorable show for5O thousand plus audiences. A band like U2 for example plays in the biggest stadiumsworldwide. For every new tour, they need to wonder what they can do to dazzle the audienceeven more. By incorporating a whole range of high tech visualization tools into their shows,they succeed in creating a wow-experience for their fans, time and time again.