The new season of MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” (ABDC) premiered on July 29th with lighting designer Victor Fable turning to a lighting rig from Elation Professional to light the recently revived dance reality show competition. Victor served as lighting designer for the first 5 seasons of the show, which had a 7 season run that ended in 2012, so when the dance competition was resurrected this year for season 8, they knew exactly where to find an experienced television LD who also knew what the show was all about.

Lighting designer Benoit Richard, of Millennium Lighting Design, Inc, chose his first use of Ayrton MagicDot™-R fixtures for the video shoot of NBC’s spectacular NFL Sunday Night Football Open, employing 60 units in his design.

Meskie Granie is a festival tour that showcases the music of some of the most inventive, interesting and experimental Polish alt rock and electronic artists ‘of the moment’. This year the six date tour headlined by the 2015 Męskie Granie Orchestra and featuring a different supporting line-up in each city, culminated in Zywiec where it was enjoyed by over 10,000 live audience and streamed over the internet to a further 265,000 fans.

Next to Normal has been one of the most successful musicals on Broadway in recent years. It is a discontinuity: a small revolution in the world of musicals. It has arrived in Italy thanks to the far-sighted planning and production of the STM (musical theatre school) in conjunction with the Compagnia della Rancia (Rancia musical theatre company).

HSL is supplying lighting equipment for the popular Bill Kenwright production of ‘The Glenn Miller Story’, currently touring the UK tour with veteran entertainer Tommy Steel in the lead role. The show features another stunning lighting design by top theatre LD, Nick Richings. The show has been an instant success, playing to packed audiences and also earning great critical acclaim and rave reviews.

Held annually since 1998, Prêmio Multishow (the Multishow Brazilian Music Awards) is hosted by cable TV channel Multishow. Broadcast live across the country, the 2015 event took place on 1st September and featured six DiGiCo mixing consoles.

Fall Out Boy just wrapped “The Boys of Zummer Tour” (sic) co-headlining with Wiz Khalifa, and once again Clay Paky fixtures were along for the exciting cross-country ride.  A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky products in North America.

Formed in London in the late 1970s, Spandau Ballet are an English band, part of the ‘new wave’ of  UK pop inspired by the New Romantic movement, who became one of the most successful groups to emerge during this era. Their debut single "To Cut a Long Story Short", which reached No. 5 in the UK in 1980, was the first of ten UK Top 10 hits, including a No. 1 single "True", a No. 2 single "Gold", and two No. 3 singles: "Chant No. 1" and "Only When You Leave". The band split in 1990 and reunited in 2009.

Cobham Tactical Communications and Surveillance, the RF specialist company, and Videosys Broadcast, a leading Cobham reseller of broadcast solutions for film, television and A/V, has announced that Broadcast Rental, an international full service rental house in Hilversum, the Netherlands, used a combination of Cobham’s Solo7 Nano TX transmitters and Videosys camera control technology to support coverage of the 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards by Hilversum, Holland-based facilities, technical, and creative services provider, United.

Promoting their latest album Cama Incendiada, multi-Grammy winning Mexican band Maná is currently on a two year world tour, taking in the US, Europe and South America. Wanting ’the best’, the tour’s engineers specified a pair of DiGiCo SD7 consoles.

Central Presentations Ltd. (CPL) brought expertise, innovation and full technical production – sound, lighting and video - to the recent high profile ID Live roadshow by L’Oréal, working for producers Bright Productions.

Finnish band, Sunrise Avenue, led by frontman and Voice of Germany judge, Samu Haber, performed to a sold-out Wuhlheide in Berlin this summer as part of their recent Fairytale – Best of tour.

The 2015 Dance Afrique Festival staged at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai was a sizzlingly hot celebration of African music headlined by international superstar Akon from Senegal and also featuring Congolese musician Awilo Logombia and singer / songwriter Flavour from Nigeria.

Since 1985, Rock in Rio has been one of the world’s most successful music festivals. In its spiritual and historic home of Rio de Janeiro, it continually sells out its 700,000 capacity. This year, with a heavyweight line up that included Queen + Adam Lambert, Rod Stewart, Elton John, Seal, Katie Perry, Rihanna, John Legend and Motley Crew, what better choice of master console than a DiGiCo SD7?

For the sixth Brazilian edition and the 30th anniversary of the original Rock in Rio, production company Gabisom Audio Equipment debuted its new MLA system on the Palco Sunset stage which featured artists such as Korn, John Legend, Magic, Deftones, Steve Vai and Al Jarreau across the mix of rock and pop line ups.