Bangladesh-based Glow Lights & Effects only set up in business in 2011, but by the following year they were starting to service many events out of Dhaka — frequently using the PR5000 Spot and Beam lights from Chinese manufacturers PR Lighting.

Respected lighting designer Rob Sinclair is using Clay Paky’s extraordinarily compact yet super bright Sharpy Wash 330 as the workhorse fixture for the lighting of the visuals-led Pet Shop Boys Electric World Tour.

Clay Paky’s bright yet compact Alpha Spot HPE 700s and Alpha Wash 700s alongside its cutting edge beam shaper Alpha Profile 1500s are being used to light the pop idols of tomorrow on the Czech and Slovak Nova TV show ‘SuperStar’.

There was a job to finish: the 2011 tour Vasco Rossi, the Italian rock star from Emilia, interrupted owing to health problems. The seven concerts in two large stadiums (four in Turin and three in Bologna) were all sold out, which goes to show once more that the Vasco Rossi myth has not been tarnished at all by recent events.

Drawing an immense following since its debut in September 2012, reality television singing competition “The Voice,” or “La Voz,” in Spain, has become a social phenomenon. To help accentuate the live performances, live drama and the jury of popular Spanish singers: Rosario Flores, David Bisbal, Malú and Melendi, Madrid-based full-service rental, sales and installation company Citylight installed a complete HARMAN Martin MAC lighting rig.

Leading European lighting and visuals designer Manfred Ollie Olma of Cologne, Germany based mo2 design tried out 12 of Robe’s brand new Pointe moving lights for a recent episode of “Die Ultimative Chart Show”, recorded at Nobeo 8 Studio in Hürth, near Cologne. The programme is broadcast weekly on RTL.

For three days and three nights 135,000 Glastonbury revellers had the pleasure of seeing their favourite headline acts, lit by some of the best rock and roll lighting designers in the world, play the famous Pyramid Stage.

Radio City 96.7, Liverpool’s hit music station, once again filled the Liverpool Echo Arena at their annual Summertime pop extravaganza – Radio City Live.

dbn once again supplied stage and architectural lighting plus LED screen to the latest ‘Live At Jodrell Bank’ shows, which featured two stonking nights of performance headlined by the Australian Pink Floyd and New Order at the fabulous Jodrell Bank Observatory site, in the shadow of the charismatic Lovell Telescope.

Chinese Idol, the Chinese reality/singing competition modeled after American Idol, marks the start of every show with an animated opener that takes the TV viewer on a journey of synchronized sound, moving design, text and images. The dazzling branded opening sequence as well as the dynamic live on-air and in-studio graphics are produced and delivered using Ventuz real-time 3D presentation and broadcast graphics software.

Brazilian singer and composer Luan Santana is one of the most famous and successful artists in his home country. His first live album was a bestseller throughout 2010, shifting over 500,000 copies. It remains among the best-selling albums in Brazil. After additional successful albums, Luan Santana produced a DVD at the Parque Maeda o Vivo in São Paulo.

The 2013 CMT Music Awards  was staged at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee and featured a spectacular lighting design by Tom Kenny.  The fan-voted awards show featured a stunning rig which included 24 of Robe’s newest moving light fixtures, the Pointe, along with a variety of Robe’s other ROBIN series moving heads.

The Rolling Stones have wrapped the U.S. leg of their “50 & Counting” world tour with grandMA2 consoles along for the still-wild ride. The Stones sell-out 50th anniversary tour is their first in six years. They opened the U.S. leg in LA and concluded their 18 dates in Washington, D.C. The legendary band performed on a stage set featuring a giant set of psychedelic lips and a tongue-shaped walkway that riffed on their iconic logo. Patrick Woodroffe was the lighting designer and Ethan Weber the co-lighting director.

TNDV, a Nashville-based mobile television production company, provided broadcast audio mixing and recording, as well as video gear and expertise, to High Five Entertainment for its HD production of country music Superstar Toby Keith’s Oklahoma Twister Relief Concert.

Grammy and Brit Award-winning UK folk rock phenomena, Mumford & Sons, continue their action packed touring schedule, having just finished a string of Canadian and US shows… where Robe LEDWash moving lights were once again a prominent feature on the lighting rig designed by New York based LD, Ed Warren of Next Level Lights.