Forty five years after they first hit our television screens, a comedy super group reunited. Monty Python Live (mostly) brought together five of the six original Pythons – John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones - for ten sell out dates at London’s O2 arena this summer. DiGiCo consoles were deployed at both FOH and monitor positions for something completely different…

The demands that a large musical variety show can place on a lighting rig are great so when Smoky Mountain Opry in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, sought to replace their aging lighting rig they turned to the versatility and reliability of Elation Platinum Spot 15R Pro and Platinum Wash ZFX Pro luminaires to provide the dynamic color and effect needed to support the high-energy 2-hour spectacle.

XL Video renewed its highly productive long term working relationship with Massive Attack, supplying LED screens and d3 media servers for the band’s recent festival tour which featured a video concept co-designed by UVA and Icarus Wilson-Wright in conjunction with the band’s 3D (Robert Del Naja).

Country artist and songwriter Jerrod Niemann and his production team recently partnered with Nashville-based Elite Multimedia Productions by designing a lighting package for his shows as the direct support for Keith Urban’s Raise ‘Em Up Tour.

Creating new and breath taking lighting designs, enjoyed by audiences of hundreds of thousands attending the world’s biggest and best dance events including Sensation, Tomorrowland and Tomorrowworld is by no means a small challenge for any lighting design company.

Montreux Jazz Festival takes place annually on the glorious setting of Lake Geneva. It has played host to the who's who of music since its inception, almost half-a-century ago, with acts as eclectic as Miles Davis and Marcus Miller, to Alicia Keys and, this year, Pharrell Williams,  and they always come back for more! DiGiCo consoles a key component across the Festival’s audio system, with Pharrell also bringing in his own SD7.

Over 100 Robe moving lights made a serious impact as part of Tom Kenny’s lighting design for the 2014 Teen Choice Awards (TCA).  The show, produced by Bob Bain, Greg Sils and Paul Flattery was staged at the Shrine Auditorium, adjacent to the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, California.

Belgian celebrity and TV host Marcel Vanthilt took his popular summer ‘pop-up’ magazine show concept to two cities this year – Roeselare and Knokke-Heist  - both of which staged Hotel M for a number of weeks throughout the summer.

The Benelux countries are rapidly making a name for themselves as a hotbed of musicals produced on a giant scale. As “Soldaat van Oranje” continues to wow Dutch audiences in a former aircraft hangar, a new production, “14-18”, is now doing the same in a similarly vast Belgian venue – De Nekkerhal in Mechelen. The production brings the grim reality of Flanders fields to life with an incredible level of intensity and immediacy for the audience, a spectacle helped greatly by Sennheiser’s flagship Digital 9000 wireless microphone system.

The talent section "Isso Eu Faço!" - part of popular Brazilian TV network Record’s games show “Hora do Faro" - featured a lighting design created by Diego Lima using 20 x Robe Pointes, 12 x MMX WashBeams and 12 x LEDWash 600s all from Robe’s ROBIN series, under the supervision and responsibility of RP Lighting, professional lighting rental and services company.

Lighting and visual designer Luc Peumans says that the powerful yet discreet VL3500Q Spot luminaires were the "perfect choice to highlight the action on set" for his latest theatrical production 14-18 Spektakel Musical, which saw audiences immersed in the heroism and struggle of the First World War on an incredibly large scale.

Blackmagic Design today announced that a full ATEM live production workflow was used during the French music festival Vieilles Charrues to support on stage performances from internationally renowned artists such as the Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen, Elton John and The Black Keys.

Set during the First World War, 14-18 - The Musical is a very ambitious musical theatre production. With the 1900-strong audience sat on a moving bleacher within a vast set, an innovative audio design was key to its success. A DiGiCo SD5 digital mixing console was the logical choice for co sound designer Guido Olischlager.

An Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system recently managed FOH on a tour marking the 40th anniversary of the release of Rick Wakeman’s landmark concept album, Journey To The Centre Of The Earth.

As the American Idols LIVE! Tour 2014 charges through the final leg of its highly successful summer tour, North American audiences have been treated to a broad range of talented male and female contestants performing a diverse selection of material. The new Sennheiser Digital 9000 system has delivered stellar performance every step of the way, capturing each nuance of the vocal performances in stunning detail and clarity.