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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.

After several years of growth Adamson is pleased to announce an expansion of its management team at their global headquarters in Port Perry, Canada. Benoit Cabot is promoted to Director of R&D while Marc Weber joins in a director capacity to launch a new Product and Brand management division. They join Director James Oliver to continue the strengthening of a young leadership team that has been instrumental in the increased visibility of the brand.

ETC has appointed Enrico Nobile as European rigging sales manager, a new position devised by the company to fuel the growth and development of its rigging division in Europe. Nobile will be based out of ETC’s Rome office, with much of his time spent in the sales territories of ETC GmbH and ETC Ltd, working in collaboration with distributors, dealers and integrators.

In Germany, in the North Rhine Westfalia region, Sound Linear has completed two very different sound reinforcement installations using Nexo’s GEO M6 compact line array system. One indoor, one outdoor – one a house of worship, the other a volkstheater; the projects showcase the quality of the M6 for SPL coverage and speech intelligibility.

SGM has announced the appointment of David Keighley as new executive vice president of SGM, effective 1 July. Keighley has an impressive track record in the lighting industry both as a lighting designer, tour manager and production manager and as executive vice president and chief of operations of Syncrolite, managing director and CEO of PRG Europe and managing director of Light and Sound Design.

For this year’s Eurovision Song Contest finals in Sweden’s capital city of Stockholm, a major lighting scheme was in the works. The venue for the ESC finals, the Ericsson Globe Arena, is the world’s largest hemispherical building. It’s dome has a diameter of 110 m/360 feet, and to light the dome only, 200 P-5 LED fixtures from SGM were installed.