One Direction is the boy band of the moment and is presently in the midst of a global tour that began in South America and has now landed in the UK and Europe.   This is a full-on stadium tour with all the production values that accompany it: Manchester’s Etihad Stadium, Wembley - they don’t come much bigger than this.  The hardware for Paul Normandale’s lighting design comes courtesy of Lite Alternative and the followspots, chosen as the first option for both FOH and on truss, are Robert Juliat fixtures that come with the reassurance of premier customer service from exclusive UK distributor, Ambersphere Solutions.

Controversial popstress Miley Cyrus is performing her hit world tour ‘Bangerz’ under the super sharp, vibrantly coloured beams of the Clay Paky Sharpy and Sharpy Wash 330.

Billed as ‘A Very Special Evening With The Dave Matthews Band’, the group’s latest US shows are giving fans two distinct sets from DMB with no opening act, a first for the group. The tour is also debuting High End Systems’ revolutionary new SHAPESHIFTER automated luminaire to enthusiastic fans across the US. With production support by TMS, LD Fenton Williams and programmer / co-production designer Aaron Stinebrink are putting SHAPESHIFTER through its paces as the fixture serves as their eye candy ‘workhorse’ during the second set.

Czech rental company TD Promo supplied Robe moving lights for three popular Czech bands this spring – all of whom toured simultaneously throughout the Czech Republic with some shows also in Slovakia.

Multi-talented theatre-lighting professional Luc Peumans of creative design practice Painting With Light has produced the set, lighting and video for rock'n'roll feast for the eyes Grease: The Arena Spectacular, specifying the exceptional power of 35 Philips Vari-Lite VL3500 Wash luminaires to flood the stage with stunning and vibrant colours.

When Studio 100, producers of the hugely acclaimed and highly successful 14-18 Spektakel Musical wanted to move a 2000 seater audience tribune up and down a 150 metre long performance space throughout the show … they called Hans Willems of Wicreations!

One Direction recently kicked off their latest stadium tour, Where We Are, to celebrate their third album, Midnight Memories. Working with designers Ray Winkler and Ric Lipson of Stufish, Brilliant Stages delivered a series of staging elements designed around a central theme of a skatepark.

Liverpool based technical solutions specialist Adlib supplied an L-Acoustics K1 sound system and leading Systems Engineer Tony Szabo for the recent UK and European legs of Nine Inch Nails 2014 European tour.

Prodigy took their unique full-on maelstrom of mega-loud psycho-rock-rave to Israel, making some seriously deafening noise as the knife-edge excitement of their live show experience shook the Trade Fairs Centre in Tel Aviv to its foundations, complete with a lighting spectacle designed by Andy Hurst featuring over 120 Robe moving lights which helped to completely blow everyone’s minds!

Seasoned lighting designer Debbi Fowler made excellent use of an arsenal of of Clay Paky lighting fixtures to illuminate world famous Motown man Lionel Richie during his open-air gig at The Media City Amphitheatre, Dubai.

“The annual CMT Music Awards telecast is one of the best of its kind, and in some ways the best music awards presentation of all. Last night’s production proved me right once again,”* enthused media critic Ed Martin about the 2014 event.

West London based lighting and visuals rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment renewed its long term working relationship with the world famous Glastonbury festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, supplying lighting to three of the most ambitious, visually spectacular, innovative and popular area on site – Arcadia, Block 9 and The Glade.

Country music star Dierks Bentley is currently out headlining his 2014 RISER TOUR through the fall with VER Tour Sound supplying the audio reinforcement system featuring HARMAN’s JBL VTX line arrays and Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers. In addition, Christie Lites is providing a full Martin rig for the dynamic lighting system, highlighted by MAC Quantum fixtures.

Critically-acclaimed indie pop four-piece The 1975 have been driving fans wild on their world tour, including a sold out show at London's majestic Royal Albert Hall where the power and brightness of 12 Philips Vari-Lite VL3500 Wash FX luminaires provided spectacular illumination for the Manchester-born boys.

It shows some ambition when a young company takes delivery of its first full size line array, completes system training for its technicians, then nine days later loads into a festival main stage with their new PA. Ovidiu Grunca who owns Set Up Company, the Romanian PA provider in question, was unrepentant.