‘The Easter 2015 Rabbit Race’ produced at MMC Studios in Cologne, Germany, was the first commercial live event ever that was broadcast live and simultaneously by nine of the biggest German private TV stations, and also via live web streaming on the Internet. At the same time, it was the world’s first live sports event for a prime time commercial break. For the organizer, Media Markt, the biggest German electronics retailer, the project was a complete success. Additionally, the rabbit race was awarded a Golden Lion at this year’s Cannes Lions festival.

Brazil’s biggest pop star Luan Santana has filmed his latest DVD ‘Luan Santana – Acoustic’ at a sold out show, with the production and lighting designed by Ludmila Machado and Marcos Olivio of Spectrun Design. Together, the creative duo employed an array of Clay Paky fixtures to deliver crucial looks for the event, with the video becoming the second most watched in YouTube history. HPL Light Company is the Clay Paky official distributor for Brazil.

Lighting designer Tom Campbell is using an Avolites Tiger Touch II on Anna Calvi's summer festival tour using V9 to create a subtle and evocative production.

Lighting designer, Tim Routledge, has employed a quantity of Ayrton MagicBlade™-R and MagicPanel™-R LED fixtures on Take That’s Live 2015 tour, which is currently travelling the UK in promotion of their seventh studio album, III, before crossing to mainland Europe in the autumn.

Top international pop artists, Take That, are currently promoting their seventh studio album, III, on their Live 2015 tour with seven Robert Juliat followspots playing major roles in highlighting the artists and the many theatrical antics that surround them.

The Script performed in front of a jam packed crowd of over 80,000 people at Croke Park in June, for their biggest show of the year. Mirrad's Jamie Thompson and Dave Cohen made full use of Avolites Titan range, with two Sapphire Touch consoles, two Tiger Touch II consoles, a Quartz, four Titan Net Processors, and ART2000 dimmers.

Fifty Robe Pointes added to the fun and excitement of the Opening Ceremony kicking off the 2015 Copa America international football tournament for South America’s national teams which is being staged in Chile.

Verstehen Sie Spass, the popular, prime time German ‘Candid Camera’ style TV show, is making heavy use of GLP’s impression technology for its new series.

Dutch trance music DJ and producer Armin van Buuren’s radio show A State of Trance (ASOT) has been going strong since 2001 and its 700th episode on June 6th was celebrated in style with a huge live show in Mumbai, India, lit by Elation Professional’s new Platinum SBX™ moving head along with the popular Platinum Beam 5R™ and ELAR 180 PAR™ fixtures.

dbn Lighting returned to Heaton Park in Manchester to supply lighting to five out of the eight stages and video to two of those - for the popular Parklife Weekender music festival with which they have been involved since its inception in 2010. The crew - which peaked at 24 technicians, programmers and operators - was led by dbn’s Pete Robinson, and they started their various get-ins across the site on the Wednesday. There were a few logistical curved balls thrown into the mix for good measure, including a Friday night concert by the Courteeners which was slotted in by promoters SJM on Stage 4. While dbn were not lighting this ... the licensing restricted access to other areas which therefore had to be ready ahead of time.

Prolific multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and record producer Todd Rundgren has just released his hot new “Global” album, and is one of the highly innovative artists in the current portfolio of Lighting and Visuals Designer and touring Lighting Director Martin Thomas.

Madame Zingara’s unique South African travelling theatrical experience is reinventing itself in bigger, better and more opulent surroundings than ever before. The installation of the custom built, triple story speigelpaleis, known as the “Queen of Flanders” on Cape Town’s Grand Parade offers the creative energies of the Madame Zingara team even more scope to dazzle and astound their audiences. “The Celebration” is the culmination of 15 years of the dinner cirque’s fantastical journey and looks set to live up to every bit of hype around it.

The crowd gasped when Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl toppled offstage during a show on June 12 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Grohl, however, quickly showed the single-minded perseverance that has led him to success in music and documentary filmmaking. Shortly after being helped off stage for medical attention, he was back in front of the crowd—seated this time—singing and playing guitar while a doctor held his leg in place.

Italian superstar Vasco Rossi is currently engaged in his summer Live Kom 15 stadium tour which is completely sold out, and will see the legendary singer play to nearly 1 million fans, with another stunning lighting and show design by his long term LD, Giovanni Pinna.

Some 90,000 people descended on Rock am Ring in Mendig in western Germany last month for the festival’s 30th anniversary in a brand new location. Attendances hit record levels to see headline acts Slipknot, Foo Fighters, Motorhead and In Flames amongst others. With over 150 bands playing over three days, festival-goers were spoilt for choice. Southside, which took place in Tuttlingen in southern Germany, featured over 100 bands but with a distinctly more “alternative pop/rock” flavor. This time, around 60,000 fans turned out over three days to enjoy the music and a mix of sunshine and rain. DirectOut was on hand for the duration of both festivals to ensure seamless audio transmission from the stage to OB van for regional public broadcaster SWR.