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Pearl Jam blast out with SGM X-5s

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - SGM's pioneering X-5 white LED strobes are fast finding favour on the touring circuit - on both sides of the Atlantic and over a wide range of performance.

One of the recent adopters has been Seattle band Pearl Jam, products of the city's rock explosion at the beginning of the 1990's.

Their lighting designer Kille Knobel (who has also worked with fellow Seattle rock band Soundgarden) has been with the band since the early part of the millennium - and this latest tour (which visits Europe in June), is her first outing with the X-5 strobes. It is the band's most extravagant production to date - and has been conceived with stadiums and arenas in mind.

"We knew this production would play mainly in arenas, but also a fair number of stadium, festival and outdoor shows,&qu

Taiwanese alt rockers Mayday play Wembley

XL Video on Mayday parade at Wembley

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Live Nation approached XL Video to supply a large video production for a recent epic one off show at London's Wembley arena by award winning Taiwanese alt rockers and superstars, Mayday.

The project was co-ordinated for XL by Paul 'Macca' McCauley who worked in close collaboration with Andrew Craig from Live Nation's London office and his counterpart from their Asia Pacific operation, who liaised with the artist's production and management.

"I have done a few of these high profile UK one offs with various Asian superstars in recent years," comments Macca. "They a

HSL has the X-Factor Live

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Blackburn-based lighting and visuals rental specialist HSL continues its busy Spring season supplying numerous tours including the X-Factor Live UK arena tour, which is out for seven weeks allowing fans of the popular TV series to see a selection of the 2013 series finalists - including the winner Sam Bailey - perform live.

Lighting for the show - which is produced by Syco Music with technical production co-ordinated by Production North - was designed by Peter Barnes. Lighting director and operator on the road is Jonathan Rouse and all the lighting equipment and its necess

Martin lights St Petersburg Paralympic celebrations

Details: 14 March 2016

Russia - To celebrate the historic 2014 Paralympic Games, rental company Euroshow provided Martin lighting systems for a special programme featuring an ice show at Russia's Yubileny Sport Palace in St. Petersburg. The programme was held before the final stage of the Torch Relay.

Lighting designer, Alexey Yevstifeyev, who deployed Martin fixtures based on their functionality and brightness, proposed the lighting concept of the show to feature creative lighting and midair effects, consisting of 20 MAC Viper Profiles, 12 Atomic 3000 DMX, 20 RUSH MH3 Beams, 48 MAC 101s and 20 MAC 2000 Was

The Week in Lighting & Sound

Details: 14 March 2016

Dawn Raid - Tickets for Kate Bush's first live shows in 35 years sold out in less than 15 minutes. The singer said she was "completely overwhelmed by the response". "Thank you so much to everyone," she added. The Before the Dawn concerts, which take place this August and September, mark the singer's first return to the stage since The Tour Of Life in 1979. Demand was so high that the singer's own website, as well as some ticket-selling sites, crashed as people tried to log on.

Late News - A new Michael Jackson album, featuring eight new tracks

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