“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” debuted to rave reviews and top ratings, and Clay Paky fixtures are part of the mix giving a new look to late-night television.

On Sunday evening, the Recording Academy handed out awards for excellence in the music industry at the 61st Grammy Awards. The conventional categories were recognized and awarded. Just eight days earlier, two unconventional forces joined to pull off the first-ever live virtual concert in the popular Fortnite game. And what happened “there” will disrupt the business of live music and more.

grandMA2 full-size consoles are heading out on the road with Tim McGraw as the country superstar kicks off his “Two Lanes of Freedom” 2013 tour in support of his new namesake album. McGraw’s tour will play 30 cities across the USA. It follows his successful joint “Brothers of the Sun” tour with Kenny Chesney, last year’s highest-ranking country tour in Billboard’s list of the top treks of 2012.

To support her Ultimate Collection compilation album, singer-songwriter Anastacia is spending the spring and summer on an extensive European tour, which includes multiple festival dates. A comprehensive package of Sennheiser wireless microphones, instrument microphones and wireless monitoring is travelling with the tour.
 

Anastacia, a long-time user of Sennheiser, has re-emerged for her Resurrection Tour, with her voice sounding better than ever following her courageous battle with cancer. Once again, Sennheiser proves to be the perfect choice for her voice, as she delivers intimate and exciting performances night after night with an all new setlist and a special Q&A session where she talks about her experiences in overcoming cancer.

Andreas Gabalier, or the 'Elvis of the Alps', like his fans call him, has finished his successful 2015 tour. LD Fink Andreas (Light.TheSign) and LD Michael Mayler created the fantastic lighting, video and stage design for this spectacle, which included 100 automated lighting instruments from High End Systems. Twenty-nine SHAPESHIFTERs were used, along with 36 Intellaspot, 18 TechnoArc and six SolaSpot Pro 1500, and Axon Media Servers. Fink and Mayler wanted to make something very different and they decided to stay away from a design that implements a big video screen in the center at the back of the stage. The idea was to build a couple of elements that can be moved up and down, and combine a video screen with different blocks of lighting instruments. The whole set is bordered by a lit truss frame with a summit in the center, to illustrate the mountain from Gabbler's new album 'Mountain-Man'.

Called ‘The Concert Event of 2012’ in Austria, the country’s newest superstar Andreas Gabalier is conducting his first tour of his native land. Though he’s dressed in traditional leather suede pants, plays an accordion and sings “Volksmusic,” he’s packing in crowds on his “Volksrock’n Roller Tour” 2012 with a rig full of High End Systems, a Barco company, products.

Pop-rock singer / songwriter Andres Cepeda is one of Colombia’s most popular artists, loved for his multi-genre repertoire, humour and dynamic style. He recently played a month of sold-out shows at the 1300 capacity Teatro Major Julio Mario Santo Domingo in the north of Bogota. His long term lighting designer Nestor Gaitan – universally known as “Cariňosito” (which roughly translates to Care Bear in English) – lit the show, and was delighted to be able to use the theatre’s 12 x Robe MiniPointe moving lights which are part of the house lighting rig.

Swedish PA company, Parashoot, has completed a European tour with Norwegian singer songwriter, Ane Brun, using Allen & Heath’s new dLive system to manage FOH and Monitors.

Brazilian singer, composer and dancer Anitta started her artistic career in 2010 and was rocketed to stardom in 2013 with her funky hit “Show das Poderosas” (Show of Powerful Girls).

Today Anna Valley announced their purchase of over 500 square meters of 3.9mm Unilumin LED, making the AV and entertainment technology company one of the biggest, if not the biggest, supplier of single-batch high-resolution LED in the United Kingdom.  The purchase was motivated by increased demand for super-sized screens for projects like “X Factor: Celebrity 2019” where 200 square meters of Anna Valley’s new stock was used to create the digital backdrop for the live final at the SSE Arena, Wembley at the weekend.       

The UK’s landmark Nottingham Castle reopens in June following a £30 million refurbishment which started in 2018. Part of the new look is a stylish Anolis exterior LED lighting scheme illuminating all four sides of the building, comprising 17 x Anolis Divine 160 fixtures which was designed by Ian Forrow of IJF Lighting and commissioned by On Event Production from Castle Donnington.
 

Die Fantastischen Vier - AKA iconic German rappers Fanta 4 - hit the road again on “Vier und Jetzt” their biennial tour campaign for 2016-17, reaching out to an ever loyal fan base which spans several generations and stretches across every corner of the country! Once again an equally fantastic lighting, set and visual design was created by Gunther Hecker working in close collaboration with Marc Lorenz.

Around 400 Robe fixtures were on site in various areas at the 2013 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in Pilton, Somerset UK. Glasto is the largest and best known ‘greenfield’ festival in the world with a capacity of 175,000 and a truly eclectic line up of live music and entertainment over three action-packed days.

Adlib supplied full production – lighting, video including LED screens and cameras, audio and rigging – to DF Concerts for the 2019 Glasgow Summer Sessions in Bellahouston Park that featured three dynamic gigs over two consecutive weekends, attracting over 100,000 people who rocked up to see headliners The Cure, Foo Fighters and The 1975.