The Outlook Festival is staged over four days in the beautiful and slightly desolate environs of Fort Punta Christo just outside Pula, the main city on Croatia’s bustling Istrian coastline, known for its mild climate, smooth sea and unspoiled nature.

Following the recent success of their highly successful solo tours, international superstars Beyoncé and Jay Z have combined their talents to deliver a musically scintillating and immaculately choreographed ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ themed stadium tour, ‘On The Run’. The tour, which recently completed a 20-date North American leg before heading off to Europe earlier this month, explores the vast and dynamic repertoire of the duo while highlighting their creative synergies, flawless fashion sensibilities and unique on-stage chemistry.

Media production company HiLights Egypt has specified high grade automated beam movement from PR Lighting for the first season of a new game show franchise, Minute To Win It — originally conceived as an American prime time game show, divided into a series of 60-second challenges.

When Boise, Idaho-based Lighting Designer Brock Hogan was asked to design lighting for the recent co-headlining Matt Nathanson and Gavin Degraw U.S. and Canada Summer tour, he specified Robe ROBIN LEDWash 600s as the main stage washes.

Robe moving lights were right at the heart of the action at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival and particularly at The Pleasance, where 46 fixtures – a mix of Pointes, 600E Spots, MMX Spots, MMX WashBeams, MMX Blades and LEDWash 600s - were dotted around the larger of the 23 pop-up full-on venues operated by The Pleasance for the duration of the Festival.

Lighting and rigging specialists dbn were asked by Glasgow-based arts organization Cryptic to collaborate on creating ‘Sound To Sea’, a very special night-time nautical extravaganza presented in partnership with Glasgow Science Centre, and in association with Walk The Plank, All Or Nothing and The Royal Navy, staged at the Canting Basin on the River Clyde in Glasgow.

Held in the Chinese south-western city of Wulong Chongqing, this grand event included a line-up of famous musicians such as Wu Bai, Chang Chen-yue, Landy Wen and Qin Yong, a leading singer from the seminal Chinese rock band, Black Panther (Hei Bao Yuedui). Six other bands from Chengdu and Chongqing also performed at this festival. In order to provide a better experience for the audience, the organiser set a limit of 5000 capacity on each day.

When the famous Rock in Rio Festival returned to Lisbon (Portugal) this summer, and crowds of up to 350,000 swarmed to the Parque da Bela Vista, they zeroed in on the main Palco Mundo stage, the façade of which was spectacularly lit by 120 GLP impression X4 LED heads.

Martin Audio’s award-winning MLA (Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array) PA system enjoyed its busiest weekend of the year, with two huge simultaneous London events either side of the capital.

Belgian commercial TV channel VTM (Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij) celebrated 25 years of success in an amazing son et lumière spectacular staged on the beach at Nieuwpoort, which was attended by 17,000 people who were dazzled by the visual impact and audacity of the production.

Splendit is a Belgian lighting and sound rental company based in Liedekerke and headed by Marijn Broeckaert, who has a great passion for the industry and is also an LD / programmer in his own right.

Long-term Sennheiser users Kings of Leon have spent most of 2014 on tour throughout Europe and the USA, promoting their latest album Mechanical Bull. Accompanying them at every show has been their trusty package of Sennheiser microphones and in-ear monitors.

Blackburn UK based lighting and visuals specialist HSL renewed its long standing working relationship with Massive Attack supplying a floor package to the European leg of the band's 2014 summer tour which kicked off in Sofia and Istanbul and played a series of headline shows and festivals.

Taking its inspiration from the 2013 Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium, which saw the first deployment of Blueprint Events’ SGM LT-200 3D mappable LED pixel tubes, Chris Morgan’s company has now delivered what he believes to be the largest SGM tube matrix ever seen in the UK — at the high profile Creamfields 2014 in the north of England, over August Bank Holiday weekend.

West London based lighting and visual rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment supplied over 550 moving lights plus hundreds of other lighting fixtures, rigging and trussing – including for the video elements - to the North and South open air stages at the 2014 Creamfields EDM extravaganza, staged at Daresbury Estate, Near Warrington.