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Rosco’s Miro Cube 4C makes its West End debut discreetly accentuating the architectural details of the Grand Saloon Bar.

Hellfest is not as frightening as it sounds! For three days, 40,000 rock and metal fans gather in the French western countryside (Clisson, just outside of Nantes) for this annual festival. Headlined by Def Leppard, Kiss, and Volbeat, this year's event saw Nexo's new STM system make its Hellfest debut on the two main stages.

Derrick Saunders died on Friday 16 August. He had been battling with a long illness for the last 18 months. Derrick was one of the best-known personage in the UK's professional lighting industry, as sale and marketing director of Pulsar light.

With the help of Skyrock, Universal, Stade de France Prod. and, above all, thanks to the Stade de France production manager Olivier Matabon's will and energy, we invite you to experience Urban Peace 3 from the inside – from the preparatory meetings to the progress made on site up to the four and a half hour show to be held September 28, 2013.

DiGiCo's five year involvement in the Montreux Jazz Festival has made such a positive impression on audio supplier Tonspur AG that the company has been appointed DiGiCo's exclusive Swiss distributor.

Over the past five years, the Free Press Summer Festival (FPSF), staged at Eleanor Tinsley Park just west of downtown Houston, has quickly grown into one of Texas’ most eagerly anticipated music festivals. The event ultimately drawing nearly 100,000 concertgoers to enjoy 90 national and local artists performing on six stages over two days.

It wouldn’t be the Fourth of July without the “Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular”. This free outdoor concert marked its fortieth anniversary for 500 000 people and a live TV from the Charles River Esplanade. Robert Juliat Cyrano followspots, able to compete with the sun, helped light up the annual event

On request of the Quebec City Summer Festival, Unison Structures, a Quebec company specialized in the manufacturing of aluminum trusses and architectural elements, achieved the largest freestanding mobile stage designed so far in North America, called Hi -Roof.

The Rolling Stones have wrapped the US leg of their 50 & Counting world tour with grandMA2 consoles along for the still-wild ride. The band performed on a stage set featuring a giant set of psychedelic lips and a tongue-shaped walkway that riffed on their iconic logo. Patrick Woodroffe was the lighting designer and Ethan Weber the co-lighting director. Upstaging supplied the lighting equipment.

A bespoke automation system has been designed by Kinesys to open and close two large set doors integrated into the rear video wall backdrop on Robbie Williams’ current ‘Take The Crown’ stadium tour.

With effect from 1 June 2013, Thierry Dupont is responsible for providing technical assistance on behalf of Robert Juliat to lighting professionals throughout the world. Thierry Dupont comes with more than 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry, with assignments in France and the UK.

The concert production industry has lost one of its most influential figures this week, with the death of the legendary concert stage designer, Mark Fisher. Fisher's designs encompass many of the largest, most innovative, most complex and most memorable touring concert productions : Pink Floyd's The Wall, U2 ZooTV, PopMart and the record-breaking 360°, The Rolling Stones Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge, Bridges to Babylon and A Bigger Bang. Mark Fisher also designed stage sets for Tina Turner, George Michael, Jean-Michel Jarre, Robbie Williams, AC/DC, Madonna and Lady Gaga…

After simultaneous acquisitions last Year of TomCat in the USA and Litec in Italy, Milos Group announces the purchase of UK lighting/speaker stand and truss lift manufacturer Mobil Tech International.

The final in-the-round performance of his 2013 trek took place at San Antonio’s Alamodome in front of a record-breaking sold-out crowd of more than 73,000 fans. Onstage Systems furnished for touring sound reinforcement, its full inventory of K1 enclosures augmented with additional cabinets from fellow Rental Network provider Clearwing Audio for an impressive total of 120 K1.

Traveling through France for a two-month tour, singer, songwriter, musician and producer Benjamin Biolay entertains thousands of fans every night, lit up with the help of nearly 2,000 HARMAN Martin VC-Dot LED’s for a stunning backdrop.