London based LD Rowan Norris of Darkside Lights has been working with Feed Me, one of the intriguing aliases of highly talented DJ Jonathan Gooch - the artist whose individual sound flips between dubstep, electro-house and a bit of d’n’b have earned both critical acclaim and a serious fanbase.

Lighting and visuals designer Dan Robinson has just finished his third tour with talented UK singer and musician John Newman, which ramped up production values with the help of XL Video who supplied an LED screen / mini-cam and control package plus crew.

Lighting designer Saxton Waller selected 22 Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K10 LED-based moving lights for two sold-out STS9 concerts at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, the lead up to the band’s cross-country fall tour.  The fixtures and console were provided by Brown Note Productions, Inc. in Thornton, Colorado.

It’s all about glitz and glam in Robbie Williams’, Swings Both Ways Tour, which started in May and ends this September. The stage design is theatrical in every possible way. The lighting design, by Mark Cunniffe, is the perfect accompaniment to an inspired stage design and features a substantial rig by HARMAN’s Martin Professional, which is also the first major outing for lighting supplier NEG EARTH’s new stock of MAC Quantum Wash.

MGM Resorts International and Live Nation teamed up this fall to produce the inaugural Route 91 Harvest country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip over October’s first weekend. Staged on a huge lot across the famed boulevard from MGM’s Luxor, the three-day event featured some of the biggest names in country music, including nightly headliners Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert and Jason Aldean, plus more than two dozen other classic artists and fast-rising newcomers.

Production company Capital Sound fielded its full MLA system for the first time at the Royal Albert Hall to honour a special one-off performance by Paul Rodgers and his authentic Memphis R&B band; this comprised musicians who had worked on his album The Royal Sessions, recorded at the start of the year.

A.leda B-EYE K20, Sharpy and Alpha Profile 1500, provided by Spanish rental company Cinelux, were responsible for illuminating the premiere of ‘Pequeños gigantes’, a Mediaset TV show.

With a stellar reputation for managing audio at major events throughout the country, Firehouse Productions once again pushed HARMAN’s JBL VTX loudspeakers and Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers to its limits to reinforce the sound for the 2014 Global Citizen Festival. Famous world-renowned artists and bands such as Jay Z, The Roots and DJ Tiesto performed at this show, delivering an event that matched the passion of individuals supporting this movement.

It was a challenge for the technical crew of Fuji Television Network Inc. (Fuji TV) and Fuji Media Technology Inc. (fmt) to find the right fixture to light a set built in the globe-shaped observation room located on the 24th floor of their building. In the end, they discovered that ETC’s Selador® Desire® D60 Daylight luminaires were the perfect fit.

Rising Star is the latest reality TV singing competition to take France by storm. Currently aired live every Thursday night on M6, France’s most profitable private national TV channel, the show is derived from an Israeli concept where it was a massive success. In contrast to other TV singing competitions which feature a panel of celebrity judges, Rising Star features a panel of celebrity experts who offer opinions and commentary, but candidates rely almost exclusively on viewer votes in real time via a free smartphone app to determine whether or not they achieve the next stage.

More dreams are coming true in the fabulous world of Painting with Light as Luc Peumans has created another memorable lighting design for the current Albert Verlinde Entertainment production of “Dreamgirls” – a lively, action-packed musical story full of Motown rhythms and legends based on the rise and phenomenal success of The Supremes during the 1960s and 1970s.

EXPO AV-INSYNC (EAI) were chosen to provide full technical production for the first ever FREQ’ender dance festival in Singapore — and the company wasted no time in specifying its Martin Audio MLA system for the two day event.

At Danish DeeJay Awards this year, he took home three awards among these the much-coveted title as Danish Favourite DeeJay of the Year. Kongsted has indeed been on a roll the last few years. As a DJ/producer he is also the lighting designer of his own shows – most recently introducing a new concept “Kongsted in Koncert”, where his new hit track R.E.D. was recorded as a music video.

More than 20,000 music fans witnessed the Red Bull Culture Clash at London's Earls Court where four music crews battled it out amidst lighting controlled by Avolites Sapphire Touch and Tiger Touch II consoles and networked by Avolites Titan Net Processors.

XL Video supplied full video production - LED screens, cameras / PPU, media server control and crew – to Flourish Creative who produced Google’s high profile Brandcast event at the Evolution event in Battersea, London. The annual event was part of the inaugural IAB UK’s Digital Upfronts and showcased some of the coolest, cleverest and most creative stuff happening on YouTube to 1100 invited guests.