‘Immense’ Vero VX delivers on Gottwood Festival’s main stage Live by Thomas Richard - July 6, 2019July 6, 2019 Image by Rob Jones for Khroma Collective Gottwood marked its 10th anniversary with a carefully crafted programme of the finest underground electronic music. The festival’s organisers are committed to giving its community the best possible sound and, with that in mind, called in Audio Feed (with a little help from its
NEWTON Sings The Blues With Joe Bonamassa And Adlib Live by Thomas Richard - June 8, 2019June 8, 2019 On blues-rock titan’s current world tour, Joe Bonamassa’s System Engineer Michael Grabarczyk is one of many audio professionals who now rely on Outline’s extraordinary new NEWTON FPGA-based processing platform. Bonamassa played a three-night residency at London’s Royal Albert Hall as part of his European spring tour, for which Adlib provided
Hayden Borgars Lets GLP’s JDC1 Loose on Hoodie Allen Live by Thomas Richard - May 9, 2019May 9, 2019 Hayden Borgars has covered a broad spectrum of shows during his career as a lighting designer, including various music genres, corporate, dance and theatre. Most recently he joined forces with American rap artist, Hoodie Allen (real name Steven Markowitz) for a British and European tour, at venues ranging from the 700-capacity
Robe Shouts It Out for Tears For Fears Live by Thomas Richard - April 15, 2019 Tears for Fears was one of the UK bands who helped define the sound of 1980s pop-rock with classics like “Shout” and “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” - and this year they are back on the road in style, kicking off 2019 with a sold-out UK and European arena
Versatile Claypaky Fixtures Deliver for Classical Spectacular Live by Thomas Richard - March 29, 2019 Classical Spectacular, one of the UK’s most popular classical music showcase, returned to the Royal Albert Hall over the weekend to celebrate its 30th Anniversary at the venue, backed by an enormous production featuring an indoor firework display, rifles and cannons. Esteemed lighting designer Durham Marenghi has selected a variety
WORK PRO’s LightShark Lighting Console Goes On Tour With ‘Adele’ Live by Thomas Richard - March 8, 2019 WORK PRO’s versatile LightShark DMX-based hardware lighting console is making life on the road much easier for PA and lighting company Black Cat Audio, which is currently deploying the console on the international theatre show Someone Like You – The Adele Songbook. UK-based Black Cat Audio has been providing lighting
JSES LTD Uses Elation On Festive Bowling For Soup UK Shows Live by Thomas Richard - February 26, 2019February 26, 2019 UK-based LD Jon Smith has worked for the last 7 years with one of the more brash and humorous pop punk bands around, Bowling for Soup. In late November and early December 2018, the band played a string of festive UK gigs dubbed the “Almost Christmas” tour with Jon using
Claypaky Packs A Punch For Davido @ London’s O2 Arena Live by Thomas Richard - February 18, 2019 Nigerian music star Davido wowed 20,000 adoring fans with his epic production at London’s O2 Arena, lit by show designer Anthony Hazelden using Claypaky’s Mythos and A.leda B-EYE K10 fixtures. Briefed with creating a production on the same scale as a Nicki Minaj or Drake concert, Hazelden took to WYSIWYG to
Claypaky Provides Warm Washes For The Vaccines’ UK tour Live by Thomas Richard - February 18, 2019 London’s iconic Roundhouse was ablaze with warm hues and dynamic aerial effects as English indie-rockers The Vaccines completed the second leg of their sell-out Combat Sports tour backed by Claypaky A.leda B-EYE K20s. Lighting and production designer Dan Williams was the mastermind behind the look and feel of the tour, working
CHAUVET Professional Helps SXS 20 Realize Vision @ SWOTY Live by Thomas Richard - February 9, 2019 Since it began 1995, the Spectacle Wearer of the Year Awards (SWOTY) has been characterized by a relentless drive to push the creative envelope. The brainchild of Specsavers founder and Kidscape patron Dame Mary Perkins, the annual gala honouring the UK’s bespectacled movers and shakers is loads of fun and generates