Usher, Diddy, Macklemore and Bun B is just a short list of acts that Allen&Heath consoles were used to stream the experience at this year's South by Southwest music conference,  one of the world's largest music conferences, just concluded in Austin, TX and Allen & Heath digital consoles were used to stream the experience live to millions of fans around the world.

LA pop rock band Maroon 5 has begun its “Overexposed” world tour and grandMA2 is along for the ride. Maroon 5’s new North American tour is in support of the band’s eponymous studio album released last summer. Since its debut in 2002, Maroon 5 has sold over 10 million albums in the U.S.

It was a tour whose initial dates sold out in just ten minutes. A tour which nobody thought could ever happen. But March 2013 saw the impossible become reality… and Yamaha digital mixing consoles played their full part in reuniting the classic line up of Status Quo - otherwise known as the ‘Frantic Four’ - on stage for the first time in over 30 years.

English indie rock band Bloc Party are currently in the midst of their biggest, most ambitious tour to date. The ‘Four’ Tour completed 2012 in Mexico and, so far, 2013 has taken them across the USA then on to Europe, via Japan.  The end of February saw the band playing to a 19,000 strong audience at Earls Court before March escorts the tour down to Australia and the Far East.

As boy band sensations One Direction (1D) embarked on the much anticipated 117 date Take Me Home world tour, the tried and trusted production team of Production North, Lite Alternative and Wigwam were brought in to turn the cityscape arena concept of creative designer, Elizabeth Honan, into reality.

Swedish singer songwriter Petra Marklund, who also performs under the name ‘September’, has been touring the country’s concert halls this spring with one of the most dynamically unique stage sets imaginable — fabricated largely from more than 3,000 SGM LED Balls (LB-100) ingeniously rigged as an overhead, interactive spatial canopy.

Devon, UK, based drapes, starcloth, LED and visual effects specialist S+H Technical Support is again supplying its innovative LED Video Floor product to the latest UK series of BAFTA Award winning games show, The Cube – via producers Objective Productions.

Wireless Solution Sweden AB, manufacturer of the award-winning W-DMX™ wireless DMX technology, worked with Ampco Flashlight Rental, based in Utrecht the Netherlands, to use the new Wireless Solution W-DMX G4 system to control dozens of moving lights, LED fixtures and conventional lighting fixtures at the FIS Alpine Ski World Championship 2013 Opening Ceremony in Schladming Austria on Feb 4th 2013.

The Sanremo Music Festival 2013 recently took place at the Teatro Ariston, in the picturesque Ligurian town on the Mediterranean, and was broadcast by Rai 1, Italy’s national broadcaster.

Leading UK lighting and visuals rental company HSL is supplying all lighting equipment to the current series of the Googoosh Music Academy, which features a spectacular lighting design by Steffan Jones.

One of the most popular live bands in music history, The Allman Brothers Band is currently in the midst of its annual residency at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. For this year’s 11-show stretch, Lititz, Pennsylvania-based Clair Global is providing two HARMAN Studer Vista 5 SR digital consoles for front of house and monitor mixing.

The Knight of Illumination Awards' Concert Touring and Events category recognising excellence in lighting design in Concert Touring Stage and Arena, Live Events and Video Electronic Content is buzzing with more entries than ever only one month after launch.

Clay Paky’s increasingly strong relationship with Mumbai-based Jagmag Electric Co. is resulting in the full range of Clay Paky fixtures being utilised at many of the most glittering events across India’s major cities.

High End Systems' new flagship Hog 4 console made its debut in Japan when Kome Kome Club's 'Super Natural Carnival' arena concert tour kicked off in early February. Formed in 1982, Kome Kome Club is widely recognized and revered as the only Japanese pop musical group to achieve commercial success by blending soul and funk musical styles.

The first Robe ROBIN MMX WashBeams fixtures to tour the UK went out on ‘Strictly Come Dancing – The Live Tour’, which played a month of UK arenas following the latest of the BBC’s hugely popular hit TV series. The glittering 2013 tour line up included reigning Strictly champion and Olympic gymnast, Louis Smith, dancing with Ola Jordan.