46,320 parameters, 138 universes 1,380 moving lights, 1,500 spot (conventional, LED, effect), 10kms of data cable, 12kms of power multicore cable, 6kms of power cable – numbers like these hint … that it was Eurovision Song Contest time again!

Over 150 Clay Paky fixtures were used on this year’s popular Melodifestivalen tour with the Sharpy Wash 330 being singled out as a ‘mind-blowing’ fixture by lighting designer Fredrik Jönsson.

Elation gear has become a staple of the Coachella Festival as it has grown to become one of the largest and most successful music festivals in the U.S. This year, Coachella hosted more than 500,000 people over the festival’s two weekends with headliners Muse and Arcade Fire, along with a list of surprise guests and more than 180 other acts, delivering another memorable event.

XL Video is again providing full video production – including projection, LED screens, media server control and full camera / PPU package – to the critically acclaimed Arcade Fire “Reflektor” world tour, for which set and visuals have been carefully sculpted by Show Designer Richard Stembridge.

On 10 May, the final of the 59th Eurovision Song Contest was broadcast live to an audience of approximately 125 million in the Eurovision countries and Australia. The world’s biggest live music contest was a fantastic spectacle, with imaginative introductions for each country that competed and many musical highlights among the 26 songs of the final.

Glastonbury is regarded as the mother of all festivals and has arguably the most iconic of stages. The Pyramid Stage showcases the world’s greatest talent and therefore needs to sound loud, proud and faultless, but it also needs to meet the strict criteria set down in stone by the licence. Attempting to quantify exactly what makes Glastonbury so special is always difficult, but this year there is one further magical ingredient being added to the mix: Martin Audio’s ground-breaking MLA, courtesy of RG Jones Sound Engineering, will grace the Pyramid Stage.

The Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular is a BBC Worldwide production based on the ever popular Doctor Who television series. Celebrating over 50 years, Doctor Who is one of the most widely broadcast drama series on the planet.

Lighting Designer Martin Kubanka knows how to make many things look beautiful with his stunning lighting and visual designs, and this coupled with the Miss Slovakia beauty pageant as the subject matter and 150 Robe moving lights on the rig made this 2014 edition of the event extra special.

Scott Willsallen, director of Auditoria Pty Ltd (Australia), was Audio Director and Designer for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic games at Sochi’s 40,000-seat Fisht Olympic Stadium, at which DiGiCo consoles played a major part.

TNDV has five mobile production trucks and several flypacks crossing the country every week, with production teams working across multiple cities and locations on any given day.  Occasionally, the stars align and several TNDV productions converge on the same city on the same date.  This was the case in April, when the company sent its two largest trucks and a flypack to Las Vegas for three shoots, each with very diverse production requirements across live TV, post and professional AV environments.

This year popular British TV series ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ evicted each voted out participant along a ‘catwalk of shame’ under the piercing, bright spotlight of the Clay Paky Sharpy.

For the second year running Pretoria South Africa based Blond Productions are supplying full technical production – lighting, video and sound – including Robe moving lights – and design for the popular South African TV talent competition, Clash of The Choirs.

When Austrian drag act Conchita Wurst was crowned the winner of the 59th annual Eurovision Song Contest in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, it brought to the end a spectacular show, in which SGM’s pioneering LED lighting reigned supreme.

Live music lighting designer Nick Whitehouse is currently out on the road for a year long tour with pop superstar Justin Timberlake and he has chosen to specify Philips Vari-Lite's VL3000 range of luminaires as the backbone of his stylish and dynamic design.

As Sri Lanka’s premier sound and lighting provider MOS Sound & Light recently provided full production services for a major concert by Greek composer/keyboardist Yanni — using fixtures from their PR Lighting inventory to create stage dynamics.