Taking advantage of the power and flexibility of Crown’s I-Tech Series amplifiers, Sirius Showequipment AG of Niederdorfelden, Germany provided Audio Analysts with over 100 of Crown’s I-Tech amplifiers for use on the Bruce Springsteen tour throughout Europe. The European leg of the 23-stop tour began with three shows in Dublin, Ireland on May 22nd, 23rd and 24th followed by four shows throughout the U.K.

grandMA celebrates PartyGuide's 10th birthday. PartyGuide.ch - often abbreviated to "PG" - is the largest and oldest leisure portal in Switzerland. The 10th birthday celebration was a ‘hot’ event staged in the Festhalle BEA Bern, attracting a huge crowd of partygoers.

The Abu Dhabi Formula 1 (F1) weekend saw a plethora of related events and entertainment taking place around the city. This program was known as “Yasalam”, the final element of which culminated in four nights of after-race concerts on Yas Island over the race weekend. Held at Ferrari World, Abu Dhabi, the headliners were Beyoncé, Jamiroquai, Kings of Leon and Aerosmith.

Clear-Com® Communication Systems is helping Blue Man Group Las Vegas to bring a sense of adventure to its popular live show at the Venetian hotel. Though the three “Blue Men” on stage never utter a word throughout the performance, a large behind-the-scenes crew communicates using Clear-Com’s CellCom® digital wireless intercom system, carefully coordinating the many moving parts that create the group’s fast-paced music and multimedia experience.

Camera Corps Q-Ball robotic camera heads are keeping watchful eyes on the latest series of 'I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here' from Springbrook National Park on Australia's tropical Gold Coast. A total of six Q-Balls were chosen by international broadcast services company Gearhouse Broadcast as part of an 80-camera flyaway production system for the programme's ninth series. Produced by ITV Studios, the programmes are being transmitted in Britain by Granada Television (weekdays) and LWT (weekends) and on TV3 in Ireland. Over 40 hours of live programming are being sourced from 24/7 content captured over several weeks of production.

Mister Children, one of Japan's most favorite RockPop Bands at present, finished their "Supermarket Fantasy" Tour 2009 with three outrageous concerts in Tokyo. On Christmas Eve, December 24th, the first concert was presented live on the Japanese WOWOW Pay TV channel, the other two events December 26th and 27th were, as well as the gig on Christmas Eve, used to produce footage for a new DVD of "Misuchiru", how the Japanese fans lovingly call their idols.

The year 2009 was a year full of events and live performances achieved with TecnoVISION LED Displays as the Laura Pausini world tour . The year also closed with two important installations for the entertainment world, very different from each other but both of great impact.

More than 25 years after their stunning debut, scandinavian pop trio a-ha is on the road on their ultimate farewell – their “Foot of the Mountain” Tour. German lighting designer JoJo Tillmann is responsible for staging the light show and delivers spectacular visual effects, using a unique design of impression.

Three pedestals with precision sensors put hosts and competitors into a virtual world

The production “Die Drei ??? und der seltsame Wecker” (The Tree Investigators and the strange alarm clock) the successful audio drama series has toured Germany for the second time. In addition to Oliver Rohrbeck as Jupiter Jones, Jens Wawrczeck as Pete Crenshaw and Andreas Fröhlich as Bob Andrews, all of whom have already become icons to fans of the series, Peter Klinkenberg was the foley artist and Helmut Kraus the narrator.

The Pandemonium Tour by much-loved British electro-pop duo The Pet Shop Boys is the first touring show to use Britannia Row’s “new” X-Line system, which has recently been turbocharged by the implementation of EV’s ground-breaking FIR-Drive (Finite Impulse Response Filters) technology.

The Challenge: For an internationally broadcast live event, provide a stadium-size lighting system that assembles and powers up in less than eight minutes.

Miss World 2009 saw another spectacular lighting design by Tim Dunn, who used a grandMA full-size console to control nearly 300 intelligent light fixtures, plus LED and generic lighting, altogether totalling 12,600 DMX channels across 24 active universes. He also triggered video content stored on an MA VPU (Video Processing Unit) from the desk, which fed an upstage LED screen, 12 x digital moving lights and 114 LED lights embedded in the set.

Glen Johnson of i-Lite Ltd, Set and Lighting Designer for the current Will Young's “Greatest Hits” UK and Irish tour, is using 2 x grandMA2 light consoles to run the show's lighting. The two are networked together, with the first used as the main console, and the second running in full tracking backup.

The final grade for Lady Gaga’s controversial new pop video for her latest track Telephone was completed using Digital Vision’s Nucoda Film Master. The Chimney Pot post house in Sweden handled the visual effects, beauty work and sound de­sign. This is not the first time that the facility has created Gaga-wonders; last year it won an MTV Music Video Award for best visual effects for Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi video.