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No German band can be compared to the Scorpions in terms of history, success and international popularity. The group, formed in 1965, made history during the decades that followed: 18 albums, an almost infinite list of awards and innumerable tours. Today the group has embarked upon its latest world tour.

Boomtown is a pop music festival which takes place in Ghent (Belgium) every year during the “Gentse Feesten”. With MLA they’re not only using a great sound system, the MLA system is also an asset in sound control. It’s a winning solution at city festivals where noise pollution is an important topic.

Leading Netherlands based production and rental company Ampco Flashlight Rental BV (AFR) has made a another substantial investment in Robe moving lights with the purchase of 80 x DL7S Profile LED fixtures and 80 x LEDBeam 1000s, delivered via Robe’s Benelux distributor, Controllux.

UrbanVoices has been held in the French city of Nantes each July for the past six years and features a 1000-strong choir of Nantes singers from seven to 89 years old. This is spectacular in itself, but this year the audience experience was further enhanced with the use of L-ISA Live, the latest sound reinforcement concept introduced by L-Acoustics founder Christian Heil.

Mandylights were responsible for the production design, production management, stage management, lighting design and operation. Lighting gear came from Crystal Productions, Resolution X and Mandylights themselves.

The most powerful RGBW wash fixture, designed for spreading magnificent colours over the long throw distances is presented in this new Ayrton video. WildSun™-S25 is the colour-mixing cousin of Ayrton’s WildSun™K25 wash light. The new full colour model packs 217 highly efficient single RGBW LED emitters into a compact moving head and punches out 60,000 lumens of light.

UK Lighting Designer, Tim Routledge, is the mastermind behind the lighting design of one of the biggest stadium-touring shows in 2016; Beyoncé’s Formation World Tour. After a ‘Summer Shootout’ held in London, using SGM units at Carfest and The White Rose at London's O2 Arena, Tim literally saw the light in SGM’s fixtures and consequently specified 602 Q-7s and 22 G-Spots for his design for the upcoming Formation World Tour.

INFOSPORT+, a themed TV channel offered by the CANAL+ Group, France’s leading pay-TV Group, recently installed 50 neutral white LED Robert Juliat Tibo profiles in its brand new broadcasting studio where they are in daily use on sports live news broadcasts. Due to the re-orientation of the INFOSPORT+ editorial line, a new studio was created by French designer, Philippe Désert, which led to new lighting requirements. Engineering project manager, Jean-Marc Delage, decided on Robert Juliat Tibo neutral white LED profiles, on the advice of French lighting director, Frédéric Dorieux.

105 arena shows, multiple nights in virtually every venue (including six at Madison Square Garden, London’s O2 and the Los Angeles Staples Center) and every show sold out far in advance - Adele’s Live 2016 tour is big on both numbers and positive critical reviews. In order to achieve that focus, sound provider Black Box Music provided an L-Acoustics K2 system.

Eighth Day Sound, headquartered in Highland Heights, Ohio, with offices in London, Sydney and Los Angeles, has taken delivery of an additional 120 Adamson E-Series and 72 S-Series loudspeakers. The purchase is designed to meet the growing demand for Adamson sound reinforcement systems world-wide.

APG, the French manufacturer of high end professional loudspeakers and inventor of the modular line array, is pleased to announce that it has hired two new engineers, thus reinforcing its core business. The announcement is in line with the objectives set by the company when it joined forces with Active Audio in April 2016.

The lighting Designer Steven Douglas found a new way to show The Killers’ logo of a ‘K’ by using 68 MagicDot-R. Being able to mount the MagicDots closer together because they are so small and do not move outside of the radius of the head itself, the concept is a workable design.

“Les Feluettes” (“Lilies”) made its world premiere at the Opera de Montreal recently playing to full houses during its four-night run. Lighting designer Martin Labrecque utilized seven Clay Paky Scenius Spots for the new production.

Lighting for the tour has been designed by Cory FitzGerald with the rig including Robe Pointes plus two BMFL Spots which are being utilized as rear follow spots. It’s Cory’s first work for Bieber. he wanted to make the lighting as flexible as possible to create “a wide diversity of looks and help transform the space.

When the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo came to the Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand in February 2016, production supplier, MJF Lighting, decided the scale of the production warranted new followspots and invested in four Robert Juliat Merlin 2500W HMI followspots specifically for the spectacular show.