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UK - The Three Festivals Tall Ships Regatta 2018 saw a fleet sail from Liverpool to Dublin and then on to Bordeaux. Marking the fifth time Liverpool has hosted a Tall Ships event, extensive celebrations were very much captain’s orders and Stage Sound Services who, complete with Green Hippo tech, was on duty to deliver a brace of projection-mapped light shows.
Taking place during late May Bank Holiday weekend, the two events brought the power of projection mapping to huge audiences. In Birkenhead’s Hamilton Square, the Stage Sound Services team, working with the creative at Illuminos, used a pair of Hippotizer Karst Media Servers to help map a spectacular show - inspired by Birkenhead’s people, places and history - on to the Town Hall.
The same team also put on another example of projection mapping in Liverpool’s Cunard Building - one of the three graces of Live

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Israel - Ninja Warrior is a sports entertainment competition that features hundreds of competitors who attempt to complete a series of obstacle courses of increasing difficulty in a bid to make it to the national finals and become a ‘Ninja Warrior’. The format originated in Japan and has since been sweeping audiences off their feet in hundreds of countries.
After gaining immense popularity worldwide the television format has finally landed in Israel, with the Israeli version hosted by Asi Azar and Rotem Sela.
The exhausting obstacle course was built at the Haifa Port in two weeks with a team of over 80 professionals using 4.5 tonnes of trusses. The rigging and obstacle course were built by the production riggers who arrived from the US and accompany the production worldwide.
Gil Teichman from Lighting Design Systems was in charge of lighting and sound.
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USA - The snow kept falling and falling. And falling. Reaching two feet, the weight of the snow was too much for the roof to bear at Calvary Fellowship, Downington. Ruptured pipes irreparably flooded the 1,100-seat sanctuary at a cost of over a million dollars in damage. “Luckily nobody was hurt,” says a thankful Lee Wiggins, head pastor at the church.
The renovation was major, and it changed the physical design of the space. Improvements were made at all levels, which rendered the budget to complete important final details relatively low. “Money was an issue but we all felt we still needed to offer our congregation the best possible worship experience, especially the level of quality of the audio production that delivers our sermons,” points out Pastor Lee. “So we called Clair Brothers.”
Clair Brothers was faced with a number of challenges in their effor

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France - For the main celebrations for the French National Day in the centre of Paris on 14th July, pyrotechnics company Groupe F contracted Belgian firm Laser System Europe to stage a spectacular lighting and video display. In turn, they went to PR Lighting’s IP catalogue, drawing heavily on the Aqua range.
These annual celebrations traditionally kick off with a formal military ceremony, followed by a huge military parade down the Avenue des Champs Élysées and flyover by military aircraft. This is followed by a spectacular fireworks and laser / light and video show at the Eiffel Tower on the Champ de Mars, which starts at 11pm and lights up the sky for the next 30 minutes, to the amazement of crowds reaching some 700,000 people.
Laser System Europe were working at the event for the first time, projecting the same show onto two faces - one the Champ de Mars and th

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UK - Old Barn Audio (OBA) has completed its fourth high-profile project for the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, equipping the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London with a customised Martin Audio CDD-WR PA system.
The £30m centre was opened in June 2014 and comprises two outdoor hockey pitches and four indoor and six outdoor tennis courts. The primary hockey pitch has a capacity of 3,000 which can be increased to 15,000 for major events.
In terms of both prestige and value the contract ranks high in OBA’s portfolio. The requirement was to make the Centre ready for a number of high profile international events, starting with the Hockey Women’s World Cup this summer, after which the PA system will be reconfigured and extended.
OBA project manager, Neil Kavanagh said his company entered into a fiercely competitive

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USA - Rock band Slightly Stoopid is bringing the party to the people with their Schools Out for Summer Tour. Known for their signature blend of reggae, punk, rock and punk sound, the band tours extensively every year, with Pollstar ranking them in the top 20 summer tours for the last two years.
Bandit Lites is once again providing the lighting package for the band, who dropped their ninth studio album, Everyday Life, Everyday People mid-July. Lighting designer Scott O’Connor wanted to design a rig that was simple and clean, but bold.
This summer’s production evoked the look of a backyard house party, giving the audience the sensation they’ve dropped in on an epic summer bash.
Bandit Lites supplied a lighting package consisting of festoons (a feature O’Connor shared as his favourite look), Martin MAC Viper Profiles, Martin MAC Auras, GLP X4S

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Australia - With soaring ceilings, cavernous naves, and smooth surfaces of stone or stained glass, cathedrals can present unique acoustics challenges. St John's Cathedral in Brisbane, Australia is no exception, having been bestowed the distinction of having one of the longest reverb times for a chapel in the southern hemisphere, ringing in at a whopping 7.2 seconds - delightful for Gregorian chants or pealing bells, but a sound reinforcement conundrum.
The solution was an L-Acoustics distributed 5XT system, installed in November 2017, which has since been providing the congregation with crystal-clear audio at the renowned Brisbane landmark, while preserving the architectural integrity and beauty of the heritage-listed structure.
St John’s Cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of Brisbane, which was created in 1859. Built as a mixture of French and English Vic

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Europe - As much of western Europe has basked in high summer temperatures, thousands of happy revellers have been enjoying the annual crop of outdoor festivals. Sound engineers using Yamaha’s Rivage PM7 digital mixing system at these events have been very happy too. Leading German FOH engineer Olli Voges explains how the new system ensured that the only high pressure he’s experienced has been in the weather.
Olli has worked with Yamaha digital consoles since the early 2000s. As well as his work at live concerts, he is an experienced engineer on the biggest live television shows. This summer he is out on the European festival circuit, mixing a number of well-known German rap and electronica acts, including Casper, Sido, Kool Savas and 187 Strassenbande.
Caspar is on a full festival tour, mainly playing as headliner / co-headliner, which started with the twin Rock

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France - Paris cabaret venue Moulin Rouge has invested in two DiGiCo S21s purchased through DiGiCo’s French distributor DV2.
The historic venue, based in Paris’ Pigalle district, opened on 6 October 1889 boasting chic interiors, large dance floor and picturesque garden resplendent with a large elephant statue.
In the spring of 2018, Paris sales and installation company Synoptic Broadcast provided the S21s - one as the main console and one as a backup - at the request of Moulin Rouge sound engineer, Bruno Ravary, who wanted to replace the existing desks with a compact format console that would fit into the amount of space available.
“I decided to change to DiGiCo simply because I went to a concert where a friend was using an SD10 and I liked the sound,” explains Ravary. “But we’ve also worked with the SD9 and SD11 for the recording of a TV Show, so we

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USA - Indie pop/folk rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise are touring with High End Systems SolaFrame 750s as the focal point of their production. Described as Kings of Leon meets Modest Mouse, the North Carolina band is selling out venues on their 2018 tour, How to: Friend, Love, Freefall.
Cour Design’s Erik Anderson and Gordon Droitcour of Nashville designed the show, specifying the SolaFrame 750 LED automated fixtures from tour vendor 4Wall Entertainment for its wide range of features in a compact unit. “We have been very happy with the SolaFrame 750s,” says Anderson, citing speed and multi-functionality on a small club tour as key reasons for their spec. “They are doing a whole lot of work, since overall this production is quite minimal.”
As this was the first tour with production for RKS, Anderson says the design key was to balance the aesthetic and

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UK / USA - On a weekend when Mars traversed the Moon, the d&b Soundscape delivered otherworldly sound, transferring listening experiences for audiences whether wide awake or fast asleep.
Following a successful weekend at the Klassik am Odeonsplatz open air classical music festival in Munich, the d&b Soundscape spanned both the globe and a universe of musical styles. While Max Richter performed Sleep in Los Angeles, the WOMAD Festival took place in an unusually sun bleached English countryside looking more like Southern California.
This was Max Richter’s first outdoor and largest performance of Sleep, an eight-hour lullaby performance that runs right through the night. Under the Moon, stars and eclipse, the piece had the audience safely tucked up in bed in Downtown LA’s Grand Park for a performance of the score for piano, strings, and vo

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UK - O2 Academy Bristol is the latest Academy Music Group (AMG) venue to receive a complete new audio system design, specification and installation in conjunction with Liverpool-based Adlib.
Academy Music Group’s divisional manager, Helen McGee and O2 Academy Bristol’s technical manager, Mickey Spillane worked with Adlib’s John Hughes and Roger Kirby to specify an L-Acoustics Kara PA system.
The final design was based on offering all visiting artists a high specification, in-house system, as with other recent new audio installations within the group.
The main auditorium, at 24m wide and 14m deep, has an audience area split over two levels. The balcony, while offering excellent vantage points for a standing audience, places them relatively close to the stage, making this an interesting space to fill evenly with sound.
The positioning of the main PA

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France - Held in the port town of Barcarès on France’s southern coast, Electrobeach is the country’s largest electronic music festival, featuring more than 100 DJs and hosting around 100,000 people over its three days.
For this year’s event, organisers broke new ground by employing Funktion-One sound systems on all four of its stages - in the process reducing power draw for the main stage to a 10th of that required last year.
To meet the needs of such a large-scale event, Funktion-One specialists from across France and beyond came together to work on the festival. Heading up the project was Concept Group, based in the south of France, who in turn brought together Solution One from Montpellier, Remote from Paris and Think! AV from the Netherlands - each providing the equipment and expertise required to ensure this year’s sound systems would surpass all those th

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Lithuania - Located in the Baltic coastal resort town of Palanga, the eponymous concert hall has just been outfitted with an Outline audio system designed to handle the demands of a contemporary performance space.
The Palangos Concert Hall was completed in 2015 with a capacity of 2,200 seats, its near-circular design providing both intimacy and space for a range of productions including concerts, festivals, TV projects, theatrical performances, conferences and other events.
Specified and installed by Outline’s Lithuanian distributor No Noise LT, UAB under the guidance of their CEOs Kestutis Dulinskas and Linas Kazlauskas, the system draws extensively on Outline’s product portfolio but features their latest product, the Superfly compact line-source module.
The brief from the client was very specific, demanding powerful but unobtrusive sound reinforcement tha

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USA - Hailed as “biggest hip-hop and rap festival in the world”, Miami’s fourth annual Rolling Loud drew a sold-out crowd of 70,000 enthusiastic fans over three days this past May to hear L-Acoustics loudspeaker systems drop the bomb, bass-heavy beats of their favourite artists.
Hosting performances by more than 140 of the genres’ top stars - including headliners J. Cole, Travis Scott, and Future - the festival featured eagerly anticipated sets from Lil Uzi Vert, Migos, Post Malone, N.E.R.D., Meek Mill, Wiz Khalifa, Lil Wayne, Young Thug, 21 Savage, Lil Pump, Rick Ross, The Diplomats, Lil Yachty, and scores of other artists.
The festival took place at Miami Gardens’ Hard Rock Stadium, after outgrowing last year’s Bayfront Park location. 3G Productions’ Miami office was once again tasked with providing sound reinforcement for the festival’s two l

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UK - Retford based Rope Assemblies has been praised for its professionalism and expertise by ScottWhitbystudio for its role in helping create The St Paul's Gateway as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
The contemporary gateway structure creates over 400 mirrored images of St Paul's Cathedral as pedestrians arrive out of St Paul's Underground Station. The design features hundreds of highly reflective anodised aluminium poles suspended vertically from a simple lightweight structural canopy. In the middle of the structure, users will find a reflective oculus and dome of poles which have been derived using the same mathematical geometry Christopher Wren used when designing the dome of St Paul's Cathedral.
Osman Marfo-Gyasi, studio project leader at ScottWhitbystudio comments: "We were initially approached by the Cheapside Bid Alliance alongside the London

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UK - With the exceptional summer in the UK, festival season has been basking in a bumper year.
For the first time, this year, Gunnersbury Park in West London has seen part of the festival action, hosting Lovebox and Citadel festivals which took place in mid-July. Pearce Hire continued working with their client MAMA Festivals (a Live Nation company) as long term contractor at these festivals, supporting the festival re-location with their temporary power infrastructure and site lighting services.
Jake Vernum, project manager for Pearce Hire, explains: “At Pearce Hire we relish a challenge, and know the team at MAMA Festivals incredibly well - this being our eighth year working with them on these festivals. With a well-established format for Lovebox and Citadel, we needed to ensure that we played our part in providing a seamless transition

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New Zealand - Bay Audio Visual recently upgraded their lighting inventory with Martin by Harman RUSH MH 7 Hybrid fixtures, which were supplied by Show Technology.
Bay Audio Visual is an AV production company that works on a range of indoor and outdoor events from the Coromandel to the Whakatane regions, including concerts and conferences, rentals, sales and installations.
In order to service their wide range of clients, Bay Audio Visual needed to update their inventory with a flexible and affordable fixture capable of creating lighting effects for everything from corporate events to live concerts. To achieve these goals, Bay Audio Visual reached out to Show Technology, who suggested Martin Professional RUSH MH 7 Hybrid fixtures for their versatility, power and dynamic effects capabilities.
"The versatility of the RUSH MH 7 really appealed to us," said Jordan Ba

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Belgium - Thomas Boets has been creating spectacular production designs incorporating lighting, set and video for Belgium’s high-profile gay techno party La Demence for several years, and has known the phenomenon’s mastermind Thierry Coppens for over 20.
Regular La Demence parties are staged throughout the year including three large weekenders that currently include a ‘main night’ in the 11,000 capacity Palais 12 at Brussels Expo centre. This challenges Thomas to produce an epic look and ambience as a suitable backdrop to 12 hours of techno and non-stop raving.
The most recent one coincided with Pride Weekend and Thomas populated his lighting rig with around 200 Robe moving lights.
Assisting Thomas in glamming and glittering up the lumens were 24 x Robe LEDBeam 150s, 48 x LEDBeam 100s, 24 x BMFL WashBeams, 18 x Spiiders, 48 x Pointes and 48

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UK - Currently playing to packed audiences at Trafalgar Studios in London’s West End, Tracy Letts’ black comedy Killer Joe is the queasily gripping play that’s got everyone talking. Full service technical production company Hawthorn is supplying lighting equipment to the production which sees Orlando Bloom take to the West End stage for the first time in more than a decade.
Killer Joe follows The Smith family who plot to murder a wealthy matriarch and claim her insurance money. They hire Joe Cooper (played by Orlando Bloom), a detective who doubles up as a part-time hitman, to go through with the job, but the plan takes a turn when Killer Joe meets the family’s innocent daughter.
Hawthorn have worked closely with the show’s lighting designer Richard Howell to supplying lighting equipment to his specification.
“All of the action plays out

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UK - A host of Blackpool’s famous entertainment venues have upgraded to Avolites consoles and dimmers to supercharge their new season shows.
Perhaps best known are the Blackpool Tower Ballroom, which has enhanced its control ability with a Tiger Touch II and The Winter Gardens, which has purchased Quartz and Tiger Touch II consoles.
The Blackpool Tower Ballroom hosts the hit show Legends, which features tribute performances to icons including Elvis, Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury.
Oliver Wilkinson, from entertainment lighting specialist ArranPaul, supplied the Tiger Touch II (TTII) to Legends and designed and programmed the show, which is run nightly by in-house operators.
“This is an energetic, fast-paced show, along with some beautiful dramatic moments and solos - it’s certainly not a ‘flash and trash’ experience,” says Wilk

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USA - Lighting designer Justin Townsend is using Elation Professional lights more and more since his first experience with them on the Broadway musical A Night with Janis Joplin. The multi award-winning and Tony-nominated LD was recently one of the first designers to use the new Artiste Picasso LED moving head, employing them along with the company’s ZW37 LED moving head on the record-breaking premiere of the musical Jagged Little Pill, featuring the music of Alanis Morissette.
The world premiere of Jagged Little Pill ran for 79 sold-out performances - 5 May to 15 July - at American Repertory Theatre’s Loeb Drama Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the longest run of any production at the theatre. The show, which incorporates music from Morissette’s 1995 Grammy Award-winning album such as Ironic and You Oughta Know, is an original story tha

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UK - FOH engineer Mark Kennedy has been out on the road with an SSL once more, this time for Robert Plant. Kennedy has selected an SSL L500 live console, supplied by Solotech and Britannia Row Productions.
The current Robert Plant tour, according to Kennedy, has an 'organic' approach that works well. It is by no means a silent stage, with 15 monitor wedges plus side-fills in use, and in-ear-monitoring has been put aside. "It's a very real show," says Kennedy. "There's no playback, and quite a few acoustic instruments: Banjos, mandolins, acoustic guitars... And almost everybody sings."
His approach to the console and mixing the show has been back-to-basics: "I turn everything off and start with a blank slate - the simplest set-up I can create. Then as I need to I turn features on - apart from the normal channel processing, I use the SSL’s Bus compressor, reverbs, dela

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USA - R&B rising star R.LUM.R, played That Tent at this year’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, beneath an Elation lighting rig supplied by Genetic Productions.
Most known for his breakout 2016 single Frustrated, the former classical guitarist is a multi-talented artist whose debut EP Afterimage showcases his passionate vocals and insightful lyrics.
Genetic Productions served as the design firm, crew provider, and gear provider for R.LUM.R's Bonnaroo performance, a setup that included Elation Artiste DaVinci and DARTZ 360 moving heads along with IP65-rated Paladin hybrid lights and ACL Curtain battens.
Genetic has been working with R.LUM.R for about four months now and Bonnaroo was their first live performance with him. “We worked with R.LUM.R and his management team to integrate a new design that utilized custom-
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