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Green Day with Chaos at the Emirates

This was their first stadium show in London since 2010

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - The Emirates Stadium, the North London home to Arsenal Football Club was the venue for an unforgettable night on 1 June with American rockers and Grammy Award winners, Green Day. This was their first stadium show in London since 2010 and formed part of the Uno, Dos, Tré, Tour. The video element of the show was supplied by Chaos Visual Productions who are continuing a packed schedule of events this summer.

The band, who, despite their mainstream successes still adhere to their punk ethos, chose not to deviate from their stripped down look to the stage allowing the video crew to concentrate on the band members (and audience members) playing on stage. Video director, Blue Leach was given pretty much carte blanche to interpret his vision of the show onto the two 29S

AC-ET projections at BRDC Grand Prix party

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd provided spectacular video projection for the British Racing Drivers' Club's (BRDC) dazzling annual British Grand Prix party at Silverstone racing circuit.

Staged every year on the eve of the F1 Santander British Grand Prix, this year a party was held for the first time at the BRDC Farm, which is adjacent to the celebrated race track.

AC-ET's technical manager, James Bawn, decided to bring the façade of the space's Georgian building to life. For this he used dynamic, high-speed racing footage from the BRDC's own film archive. To achi

Rick Wakeman performs at his Ultimate Experience show in Cheltenham (photo: Lee Wilkinson)

Audio-Technica helps Wakeman deliver

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Rick Wakeman and his English Rock Ensemble recently performed two special shows with the 65-piece Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra and the Gloucester Cathedral Choir, which saw an array of Audio-Technica AT2020 and AT2031 microphones used for brass and woodwind duties.

The Rick Wakeman Ultimate Experience shows featured more than 90 artists on stage performing selections from Wakeman's best-loved albums - The Myths And Legends of King Arthur, Journey To The Centre Of The Earth and The Six Wives Of Henry VIII - at The Centaur venue at Cheltenham racecourse

Hyde Park system engineer Toby Donovan with the FOH Optocore rack

Capital Sound Optocore extended for Hyde Park

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - When the Rolling Stones arrived at London's Hyde Park on 6 July to perform the first of two concerts at the AEG-Barclaycard British Summer Time 10-day season, they were safe in the knowledge that their glorious oeuvre of classic rock favourites would reach the 65,000 or so fans situated in proximity of any of the ten delay towers courtesy of an Optocore redundant fibre distribution system.

Capital Sound had been awarded the sound reinforcement contract by promoters AEG Live/Loud Sound - Royal Parks' new tenant - and the London-based production company deployed the Optocore system

Hog4 training videos released

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Following the successful HOG4 launch and due to high demand, High End Systems is releasing a series of Hog4 training videos.

In tandem with the large number of worldwide training classes undertaken both by High End Systems and its extensive distributor network, the initial 12 videos will allow everyone to learn how to use a Hog.

The videos have been split into easy to watch segments meaning that beginners as well as experienced users will benefit from them. They are also in a logical order allowing for the user to move from one element of the Hog software to another with ease.

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