Lighting designer Miguel González, of Madrid-based Colorcode Studio, chose the new Vari-Lite VL10 BeamWash fixture to enhance his design for the Mexico leg of Spanish star Enrique Bunbury’s recent world tour. Running since 2017, the Expectativas tour was Bunbury's most ambitious production to date.

CLAIR Global sends FOH Engineer Chris Michaelessi and Monitor Engineer Bob Lewis out
with newly upgraded SD7 Quantums and 32-bit Mic Pre-Amps, and there’s no looking back
 

At a recent a stadium show in Seoul, South Korea, the LA Philharmonic Orchestra took the music of celebrated composer John Williams to whole new level, incorporating giant screen projection and a truly epic soundscape provided by L-Acoustics L-ISA Hyperreal Sound technology.
 

Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas just kicked off his solo “Chip Tooth Tour” with an all Elation lighting rig specified, designed and programmed by Benoit Richard.
 

Eurovision Song Contest 2019: extraordinary showcase of the Made in Italy thanks to the great singing show of our compatriot, second placed in the final, and to the high-quality performance of the DTS products demanded for the lighting plot. Over 400 fixtures to light up the main hall and the Greenroom: "In DTS we are really proud for this new challenge that made us better known throughout Europe, showed our energy and focus on growth and improvement."

The Eurovision Song Contest 2019, globally one of the most widely-viewed entertainment extravaganzas, was hosted by Israel at the Expo Tel Aviv and boasted over 700 Ayrton fixtures in its massive lighting rig.  Set designer, Florian Wieder, and Tel Aviv-based lighting designers, Ronen Najar and Dakar Azulay created individual looks for each of the 41 competing countries.

Kansas City’s award-winning arena gets a powerful and versatile new PA from DSS
 

MA Lighting was once again the control solution of choice for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest staged at the Tel Aviv Expo Centre, Israel, which featured a stunning lighting design created by Ronen Najar and Dakar Azulay. Twenty-six countries battled out the final whittled down from 41 original entries, watched live by a worldwide audience of around 200 million enthusiastic fans plus 7,500 in the arena, Hall 2 at the Expo Centre. No less than 15 grandMA2 consoles graced the FOH technical area, controlling 71,061 parameters and a mix of over 2,500 light sources and LED fixtures. 

Some of the most renowned and sought-after artists and bands come together each year on this day to raise their voices for children. This year the PxP Festival took place on Saturday, 1 June 2019—International Children’s Day. We can’t wait to celebrate this special day with you all as we work together to help build a more peaceful future for the younger generation.

Dejero, an innovator in cloud-managed solutions that provide Emmy® video transport and Internet connectivity while mobile or in remote locations, assisted Musion 3D, a leader in ultra-realistic, life-sized, interactive 3D holographic video shows and effects, in successfully transmitting a life-sized, interactive human hologram for a live performance across Vodafone’s 5G network. Dejero provided EnGo mobile transmitters and receivers to deliver video links from a studio in Bucharest, from which the hologram of a 10 year old guitarist was beamed live to a stage over a Huawei router and Vodafone 5G link.

Universal Pixels provided video packages for Spice Girls in Dublin, Snow Patrol in Bangor, and The Chemical Brothers in London across an action-packed Spring Bank Holiday weekend. The video specialist supplied over 1,450m2 of LED screen, multiple 3G camera packages, disguise GX2 servers, and a total of 26 crew over the three shows.
 

DPA’s d:facto 4018V Vocal Microphone plays a starring role in the staging of SIX the Musical - and not just because it conveys the crystal clear audio that sound designer Paul Gatehouse was looking for.
 

Le Moulin Rouge, the famously emblematic cabaret of Parisian nights and entertainment since 1889, recently renewed its followspots and chose Alice, the latest in Robert Juliat's generation of LED followspots.
 

Popular UK band The Kooks have just completed the latest UK and European leg of an ongoing world tour in support of their fifth studio album, Lets Go Sunshine, which dropped late last summer and hit a Top 10 in the UK.
 

Award-winning lighting and visual design practice Painting with Light (PWL) was commissioned by interactive media and attractions specialist Alterface to light the new Popcorn Revenge dark ride at the Walibi Belgium theme park. This showcases Alterface’s new innovative ‘erratic ride’ concept, an environment combining multiple projection techniques, spectacular HD video, 3D mapping and 3D shooting plus special effects in a ride that follows a non-linear path. Wireless-controlled ride cars are routed ‘randomly’ through a selection of different rooms over their three-minute journey, allowing guests to return to Popcorn Revenge multiple times and receive a completely different and equally exciting visual and sensory experience each time.