“Weird Al” Yankovic Hits the Road with DiGiCo SD5 Consoles

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by Thomas Richard - July 6, 2019

As to be expected, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s latest North American tour features the artist performing his signature hilarious parodies of hit songs recorded over more than four decades. This time, however, he’s being backed up not only by his usual talented band, but also by a full local orchestra at

Jonas König Delivers Brilliant GLP Light Show for The BossHoss Black Is Beautiful Tour

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by Thomas Richard - July 5, 2019

Over the past 15 years, country and western-oriented band, The BossHoss, seems to have built its reputation effortlessly, year after year. This Spring ‘The Magnificent Seven of Rock’ returned with their eighth studio album ‘Black Is Beautiful’. And from mid-March to early April 2019, the so-called ‘Spree Outlaw’ saddled up

d&b SL-Series fills De Kuip stadium with Marco Borsato dynamics

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by Thomas Richard - July 5, 2019July 5, 2019

Superstar Dutch singer Marco Borsato performed his anthemic back catalogue to 240,000 fans over five nights at Rotterdam’s De Kuip stadium in May. His dynamic songs and enthusiastic performance style required full spectrum coverage across the entire roof-less stadium, leading the production team to the d&b audiotechnik SL-Series. Borsato is a national

The Empire Strips Back in America

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by Thomas Richard - July 2, 2019

Hugely successful Australian burlesque Star Wars parody “The Empire Strips Back” has just completed its most extensive North American tour to date, also visiting Canada for the first time, complete with a suitably boisterous lightshow designed by Peter Rubie, featuring 30 x Robe Spiider LED wash beams as the core

K-array Provides an Invisible Solution for Romeo and Juliet at LIPA

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by Thomas Richard - July 2, 2019

The brainchild of entrepreneurial educator Mark Featherstone-Witty and music legend Paul McCartney, the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) received the top Gold rating in the Government's most recent Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Awards, and can boast an impressive list of successful artists, creatives and technicians among its alumni. LIPA has

Elite Multimedia Productions jumps in the ring with Impact Wrestling

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by Thomas Richard - July 1, 2019

Featuring captivating characters and adrenaline-pumping action, Impact Wrestling is a 2-hour weekly television production touring to packed houses across North America. In an environment where the action takes place both in and out of the ring, the production team must be able to create an expansive design in a number

Magical Sound by DAS Audio for Criss Angel´s MINDFREAK

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by Thomas Richard - July 1, 2019

DAS Audio worked with mind-blowing producer, director, and artist Criss Angel - and his sound designer Aaron Beck - to design a state-of-the-art audio system for the brand-new illusion spectacular CRISS ANGEL MINDFREAK at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino Las Vegas. The aim of the system design was to provide an

Ayrton Ghibli enter A State of Trance with André Beekmans

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by Thomas Richard - July 1, 2019

A State of Trance (ASOT) is the weekly radio show of award-winning ‘Trance Royalty’, DJ Armin van Buuren and the largest trance network in the world. Every year the 50th episode is celebrated with an enormous live concert in The Netherlands, with smaller satellite events in other countries around the

SHM Reunites While Sam Tozer Overturns the EDM Paradigm with GLP

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by Thomas Richard - June 30, 2019

Despite having worked with two members of the legendary Swedish House Mafia (SHM), Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso, in a one-off show in San Francisco, when the time came for a reunion, Vision Factory production designer, Sam Tozer nevertheless had to pitch for the gig. At the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium gig

How to produce hip-hop – big beats, cool rhymes with RCF at beatcon conference

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by Thomas Richard - June 28, 2019

Hip-hop is booming on a global scale. During the first edition of the hip-hop producers conference “beatcon” in Düsseldorf (Germany) and gathering in workshops, panels and live performances, the pros of the hip-hop producers scene passed on their knowledge about hip-hop. Beatcon took place for the first time this year and