Rock band Rush just wrapped its Clockwork Angels Tour in the US in support of its eponymous album, and Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures went along for the ride.  Rush began its US tour last September on the heels of a successful European leg.  Dates in Phoenix and Dallas were recorded for a DVD release later this year.

Leading Italian television lighting designer Salvo Perrini used nearly 200 Robe moving lights on the most recent series of ‘Reazione A Catena’ (Chain Reaction) for national TV channel RAI.

XL Video UK have again supplied all Video elements to the Icelandic band Sigur Rós for the latest UK and European festival leg of their World tour, supporting their new Kveikur album. XL has been constantly involved with supplying the band’s visual requirements for the current 18 month worldwide tour.

Creamfields 2013 saw 58,000 enthusiastic EDM fans enjoy a superlative line up of the very best dance music on the planet amidst fabulous weather, celebrating the 15th edition of the UK’s favourite dance music extravaganza at the Daresbury site Halton, near Runcorn, its base for the last eight years.

Having used GLP’s impression X4 LED heads in the design of Fleetwood Mac’s current touring set, production designer Paul ‘Arlo’ Guthrie has turned to 16 of the small impression X4S for the current theatre (and festival) shows by veteran rock singer, Chris Isaak. These are mounted on five vertical pipes — four on the centre bar and three each on the others.

The bold stage and presentation aesthetics for 2013 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, took inspiration from the ultra-cool MTV Moon Man Award statue that received a special 30th anniversary makeover this year by New Jersey street-artist KAWS.

Kinesys motion control and a Kinesys LibraCELL load monitoring system are both in action on the current Kings of Leon tour which has just finished its UK leg.

An Allen & Heath iLive system with 18 ME-1 personal mixers were employed for a special 21st anniversary show of UK band, Tindersticks.  Part of a European summer tour, the band performed a special set at the Blue Balls Festival in Lucern, Switzerland, where a 17 piece string section played alongside the regular 6 piece band.

Live video specialist Central Presentations Ltd. (CPL) supplied a full camera, vision mixing and control package to the Lion’s Den stage at the 2013 Boomtown Fair – the UK’s Maddest City - festival at Matterley Estate near Winchester in Hampshire.

Liverpool based ADLIB was delighted to supply complete visual & sound design and equipment packages to four high profile Arenas at Creamfields 2013 – the UK’s favourite electronic dance music festival.

"Echostage is becoming an epic venue. There's no other site like it near Washington DC," OHM Productions owner Jeff Darby is proud to be providing audio for the newly renovated club. "This team really cares about providing an experience for everyone involved. They wanted to take it to the next level. Part of that was mastering the sound in a very dynamic space."

Leading Nashville, Tennessee based lighting rental company and solutions provider Bandit Lites Inc. has invested in a substantial number of Robe’s newest moving lights as specified by Creative Director and Production Designer Seth Jackson and Lighting Designer Nathan W Scheuer for the current Selena Gomez ‘Stars Dance’ world tour, which kicked off this week in Canada.

Respected Berlin-based lighting designer Martin Kuhn has harnessed the punch and power of Clay Paky’s bright, pure beam Sharpys, intense sparkling Alpha Spot QWO 800 STs, and Alpha Beam 700s for Berlin’s Summer Rave 2013.

On Monday, August 19th 2013, at 10:15pm, Simon Gosejohann and his brother Thilo appeared in the new comedy show "antisocial network," broadcast by the German channel ProSieben.

The Finnish equivalent of 'roll up, roll up', doesn’t really translate into English, but that aside the language of circus is nothing if not international; even the horses seem to understand. "Good point said BonBon the clown, or Lasse NØrager as he's known to his family. "Communicating with animals is one of the most important things that happen under the big top. That's why we paid it so much attention when we considered purchasing a PA system for Sirkus Finlandia." NØrager, besides his talent for visual humour, doubles as technical advisor.