XL Video is supplying a large customised curved LED screen for James Blunt’s current “Moon Landing” world tour, together with cameras and PPU, projection and crew. The 9.5 metres high by 9 metre wide Pixled F-15 screen was specified by the tour’s show’s Production Designer Paul Normandale, who together with Lighting Director Glen Johnson and XL Video, started working with Blunt in 2005. This fourth world tour is by far the largest to date in terms of production.

Perhaps only through the eclectic, eccentric, artistic prisms of Grammy Award winner David Byrne and 10-time MTV Video Music Awards winner Fatboy Slim could Imelda Marcos and her weird, near-mythical and ultimately tragic life be told in music. In an earlier iteration, Here Lies Love, which officially re-opened May 1 at Public Theater’s LuEsther Hall on New York City’s Off-Broadway circuit, has already received the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical, an Obie Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics, and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Music, Lighting Design and Projection Design.

Heavy metal veterans Black Sabbath have pounded through the UK on the first leg of their much-anticipated reunion arena tour. Dramatically lit by LD Baz Halpin and programmer Michael Keller, Halpin specified the penetrating, precision beams of Philips Vari-Lite VL3500 Wash FX and VL3015LT Spot luminaires, supplied to the tour by Chicago based theatrical lighting and trucking operation Upstaging.

Euro Media France has just achieved a major first during the « La Grande Battle » show produced by Banijay and broadcast by France 2.

Over 500 Robe fixtures were in action for the stunning Opening Ceremony lightshow designed by Patrick Woodroffe to celebrate the official re-opening of the refurbished 56,000 capacity Estádio Beira-Rio (Riverside Stadium) in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Avid announced that its live sound systems were selected to record and mix headline performances at Moogfest, an annual five-day technology, art and music festival featuring some of the world’s most influential electronic artists. Moogfest, which celebrates the visionary and creative spirit of Bob Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer and founding father of electronic music, took place on 23-27 April in Asheville, North Carolina

The 2014 Metro FM Awards were staged at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Conference Centre in Durban, South Africa in March celebrating 20 years of democracy as a country through music and the very best of the urban genre, with 19 Awards and a star-studded line up of eight A-list live performers. It was broadcast live on the South African Broadcasting Corporations’ SABC 1 TV channel.

Moscow’s Arena Club played host to the famous Welsh band, Bullet for My Valentine, on March 6 with HARMAN’s Martin Professional lighting fixtures and the M1 Console, provided by Moscow’s Euroshow Rental Company. Robert Coleman, the lighting designer for the tour and Moscow show, deployed Martin to bring out the most of his creative ideas.

Established lighting designer Richard Rhys Thomas of the Royal Albert Hall turned to the high-quality colour and reliability of Clay Paky fixtures to implement his richly layered lighting design for the Mountbatten Military Festival of Music at London’s Royal Albert Hall (RAH).

NEP, provider of the largest fleet of mobile units and global production studios, has selected a tapeless workflow from EVS, the leading provider of live video production systems, to support its global live music and entertainment festival production.

Ed Warren is well known for his innovative and different lighting and visual designs and is lucky enough to work with a list of equally interesting and inventive artists, one of which is UK electronic act, Metronomy.

XL Video is assisting maverick rockers The Stranglers celebrate a remarkable 40 years in the music industry which kicked off with some serious attitude in 1974 at the height of punk nihilism… and developed into an enduringly successful career balancing the tightrope of acclaim and commercial success.

In order to provide English folk/punk singer-songwriter, Frank Turner, with an intricate lighting solution on his most recent tour around the world, Shaun Moore, Lighting Department Director at Nitelites, implemented HARMAN’s Martin Lighting fixtures. Moore deployed 14 MAC Viper Washes, 24 MAC Viper Profiles, 48 MAC Aura’s and 20 Atomic 3000s.

During the i Light Marina Bay 2014, a biennial event that was held from the 7th to 30th March in Singapore, visitors to the Marina Bay were able to witness a beautiful projection mapping event.

Brazilian singer, composer and dancer Anitta started her artistic career in 2010 and was rocketed to stardom in 2013 with her funky hit “Show das Poderosas” (Show of Powerful Girls).