grandMA2 has gone country playing key roles on the “Brothers of the Sun” Tour, with Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw, and at the fan-favorite CMA Music Festival, which held concerts at Nashville’s LP Field.

Bexel, a unit of the Vitec Group’s Services Division and a leading worldwide provider of broadcast services and solutions, supplied a state-of-the-art custom equipment package for ABC’s new interactive real-time reality competition, The Glass House.

Spanish lighting designer Oscar Gallardo has turned to an energy and cost-saving MAC Aura lighting rig supplied by MFO S.L. Productions for Joan Manuel Serrat and Joaquin Sabina’s current tour.

Ibiza 123 is the first music festival to be held on the island, and played host to a diverse line-up of artists featuring global superstars Sting, Elton John and Lenny Kravitz; live performances from chart stars Labrinth and Tinie Tempah; plus sets from some of the hottest DJs on the planet including Tiesto, Fatboy Slim, Chase & Status, Luciano, and David Guetta!

The two companies that made event history by developing the digital artistry and technology behind the London 2012 Opening Ceremonies ‘human-powered’ video screen signed a global partnership agreement on Saturday 28th July. The partners are both behind the digital magic that enveloped the audience at Friday night’s performance and plan to build on their joint offering to create immersive experiences for events worldwide.

Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures are hitting the road with the North American summer tour of iconic rock band Motley Crue, which is co-headlining tour dates across the country with KISS.  A complement of approximately 90 Sharpys have joined the Motley Crue / KISS lighting inventory.

Italian based lighting designer, Aldo Visentin is using his own Jands Vista S1 lighting console running the next generation Vista v2 software, plus two Vista M1 Wings, to control lighting for Italy’s most beloved tenor, Andrea Bocelli.

The Eurovision Song Contest recently completed its 57th year, held at The Baku Crystal Hall in Azerbaijan, a brand new multi-purpose indoor arena with a capacity of 23.000 spectators. The Baku Crystal Hall was commissioned by the City of Baku specifically for this event and construction was completed in a mere eight months. A perfect venue to host Eurovision, the show that continues to captivate audiences worldwide and its fans are proof of this.

PR Lighting effects are being used heavily on the latest series of Algerian TV game show Takdar Tarbah (which translates as You Can Win).

PA company, Production Hire was contracted to provide sound reinforcement for the live band element of the Rock of Ages film premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square recently.

Twenty-five years to the day that Rick Hansen and his “Man in Motion World Tour” returned to Vancouver, a journey in which he circled the world in his wheelchair to raise awareness and money for spinal cord injuries, the Canadian Paralympian held a special anniversary show to inspire a new generation of activists.

An army of Clay Paky fixtures brightened up kid’s faces across the Benelux as pop sensation K3, kicked of its EYO tour at the Sportpaleis in Antwerp and the Ahoy, Rotterdam.

On Saturday, July 7th, 2012, the second season of the successful game show 17 Meters (The Whole 19 Yards) was launched on the channel ProSieben.

The Russian city of St. Petersburg welcomed the long-awaited premiere of “City Lights,” an original ice show based on the famous 1931 Charlie Chaplin film. Produced by Russian ice dancer Ilya Averbukh, “City Lights” is a grand production that features stunning Martin lighting effects and no less than seven Olympic and eleven world figure skating champions.

Dutch classical superstar Andre Rieu, affectionately known as the 'King Of Waltz', is one of the top-grossing touring artists in the world this year. As usual, the highlight of his live performance calendar is the series of concerts he gives in his home town of Maastricht in the Netherlands, but this year was special – the 25th anniversary of Andre and his Johann Strauss Orchestra performing together. Fans flew in from all over the world to fill the Vrijthof Square for these summer evening concerts, and demand was such that the shows were filmed for DVD and live broadcast to cinemas worldwide.