Rammstein, known for their spectacular pyro and fire-fuelled shows, full-force industrial metal sounds, uncompromising sometimes controversial lyrics, their thrilling, hair-raising hi-energy live performances and adversarial commercial success … release their much-anticipated self-titled new album. Entertainment engineering specialist WIcreations is delighted to be working with the band and their talented production team on the current three-month stadium and festival tour around the UK and Europe including Russia and Latvia.

WIcreations provided StageCo with specialist automation services to move four massive towers onstage at the epic Vasco Rossi concert and spectacle in Modena – the Italian rock superstar’s only scheduled live appearance in 2017 - attended by 250,000 rapturous fans on a blisteringly hot summer’s day in Modena Park.

When Studio 100, producers of the hugely acclaimed and highly successful 14-18 Spektakel Musical wanted to move a 2000 seater audience tribune up and down a 150 metre long performance space throughout the show … they called Hans Willems of Wicreations!

Engineering and automation specialists Wicreations is supplying flying and rigging solutions to the ‘Ice Age Live – A Mammoth Adventure’ tour produced by Stage Entertainment Touring Productions, which continues to enthral audiences worldwide now on its latest third leg of an extensive touring schedule that started in 2012 and is currently scheduled until 2017.

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.

Wigwam Hire has enhanced its Optocore-based ‘OptoRack’ data returns system in preparation for the upcoming Coldplay European Mylo Xyloto arena tour, and next summer’s stadium dates.

There are legendary performances and there are legendary performers, and every so often, those two things cross for a night of epic music. Bandit Lites had the honor of providing the lighting package for Willie: Life & Songs of an American Outlaw.  
 

Lighting and video content design ceremony Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) announced the winners of the 9th edition during a prestigious ceremony at London's iconic Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith on Sunday 18th September.

In Europe, Robbie Williams is a legend; he regularly fills stadiums and his productions are some of the most anticipated on the continent. One of his dreams was to do a Vegas show, and to make every detail of Williams’ show perfect, Production and Lighting Designer Sean Burke, principal at Holes in the Dark, needed reliable wireless DMX technology. “When the wireless stuff came up, I did a bit of research on it, looked around, and saw that Baz [Halpin, of Silent House Productions] used RC4 Wireless products on the last Katy Perry tour. I know the crew chief, and he said they didn’t have any problems with it,” confides Burke. That was enough for him to entrust RC4 Wireless with the job for Williams’ “Live in Las Vegas” show. Matt Bakken, the Master Electrician on the show, adds: “When a lot of people in the touring industry use wireless, they use equipment from RC4; to me, if your wireless is working in a stadium with 25,000 plus people with cell phones, that’s good enough for me.”
 

It has become tradition to celebrate New Year ’s Eve at the Marina Bay in Singapore – in fact, each year it attracts 100,000 people to this festivity. For 11 years it has been Esplanade’s job, together with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore, to organise and facilitate this massive event – last year alone it included 8 minutes of firework displays and 20,000 “wishing spheres” along the river. Each sphere was signed by several people during previous months, with messages expressing wishes and hope to the upcoming year.

For this year’s VELUX EHF4 Champions League Finals in the Lanxess Arena on June 3 & 4 Elements Entertainment GmbH again produced the entertainment program. This company hired Production Resource Group AG for the technical realization, which in turn chose HDwireless from Mechernich for the substantial wireless video transmission.

When Toshiya Homma, prominent Japanese sound designer and CEO of Tokyo-based Flic Pro Co., Ltd., is called on to design the sound for popular musicals in Japan, he turns to Wisycom, designer and builder of the most sophisticated RF solutions for broadcast, film and live production. Homma’s company, Flic Pro Co., Ltd., was established in 1996 to manage sound reinforcement systems in theaters operated by Toho Co., Ltd. all over Japan.
 

Wireless Audio System Engineer Victor Lang recently helped The Voice of Germany improve its wireless in-ear monitoring coverage with new Wisycom solutions. With a reliable RF signal that extends from the stage all the way to the back of the audience and backstage into the green room, Lang turned to the Wisycom’s MTK952 Wideband Dual transmitter, MPR50-IEM Wideband Receiver and MAT288 Matrix Combiner.

When Jim Dugan, owner and CEO of JetWave Wireless, and his team were called upon to provide wireless coverage for CBS’ broadcast of the preview of the National African American Museum, he knew they could rely on Wisycom to deliver flawless RF coverage through the 350,000-square-foot building. JetWave Wireless, an industry leader in large scale wireless entertainment and television production, exclusively used Wisycom products to support the entire broadcast.
 

Belgian engineering, animation and rigging specialists WIcreations has enjoyed an incredibly busy summer supplying a selection of their standard rental products like WI Towers and WI Touring Track to a diverse variety of music festivals and live events.
Here is a small selection of some of the highlights and the ways in which WI can provide solutions for a myriad of scenarios which require lighting, sound and video to be in specific places, or lifted and moved precisely at exactly the right time.