SHEFFIELD ARENA (cap. 13,000) will terminate its management contract with Live Nation Entertainment (LNE) next March, after almost 20 years with the company and its predecessors.
Operation of the venue will be taken over on 1 April by Sheffield International Venues (SIV), a subsidiary of Sheffield City Trust (SCT), which owns the building and was set up by the council to run its venues, such as the City Hall (2,340).
The council believes the move will cut costs and increase employment.
Posted on: 28/10/2015Categories: News from Live UK
Morrissey has completed an extensive tour of the USA travelling with Allen & Heath iLive modular systems to manage FOH and monitors.
The tour culminated with a headline performance at LA's FYF Festival. The systems comprised iDR10 MixRacks with an iLive-80 Surface at FOH and iLive-112 on Monitors.
Posted on: 28/10/2015Categories: News from TPi Magazine
The new Zero 88 FLX lighting console by Eaton made a massive difference to the power and control that lighting designer Guy Thatcher had at his fingertips on the main stage at the 2015 Tilfest event in Cambridgeshire.
Technical production, including all lighting and sound, for Tilfest 2015 was provided by Phantom Power headed by Clive Nicholes, a Cambridgeshire based rental and production company supplying festivals, live events, dance and theatre shows. The FLX console is a new purchase...
Posted on: 28/10/2015Categories: News from TPi Magazine
Italian electropop band, The Kolors, recently concluded their Kolors Live 2015 tour in Langhirano, with the help of Martin Audio's MLA loudspeaker array.
The bands last show of the tour was the Festival del Prosciutto di Parma for which the rental company All Access provided its ground-breaking MLA to Fare BIS Fare, service company founded by Giuseppe Bisbano. The configuration adopted by PA manager, Paul 'Red' Talami, consisted of eight MLA elements per side (including an MLD Downfill)...
Posted on: 28/10/2015Categories: News from TPi Magazine
When punk rock band, Beatsteaks, had the idea of staging a fund raiser for refugee support organisations at the Dresden Eventwerk, Complete Audio offered their services.
Fielding his Martin Audio MLA Compact system, André Rauhut, who heads Complete Audio, reported that the band had originally planned to end their 2015 touring schedule at the Lollapalooza Festival until this came along. "And it turned out to be the longest Beatsteaks show ever running to two and a half hours!" It...
Posted on: 28/10/2015Categories: News from TPi Magazine
Recently the English band played their Soulboys of the Western World world tour with a lighting and stage design by Patrick Woodroffe.
The lighting was operated by Lighting Director and programmer Roland Greil using two MA Lighting grandMA2 full-size consoles and four MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) which were controlling nearly 130 moving lights and, amongst others, 315 LED panels. Roland stated, "It was our intention to have a straight and elegant design that could provide theatrical...
Posted on: 28/10/2015Categories: News from TPi Magazine
This year taking place in Budapest, Hungary WOMEX is "The most important international professional market of world music of every kind. This international fair brings together professionals from the worlds of folk, roots, ethnic and traditional music and also includes concerts, conferences and documentary films. It contributes to networking as an effective means of promoting music and culture of all kinds across frontiers." UNESCO Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity
Made in Berlin...
Posted on: 22/09/2015Categories: Industry Event News
FROM THE 14th TO THE 16TH OF OCTOBER 2015, 3 DAYS OF CONCERTS AND INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS IN PARIS – PIGALLE MONTMARTRE
Now an established international event for the music industry, MaMA known as 'the gateway to the French music market' attracts over 4300 French and international professionals.
Following the success of the 2014 edition, MaMA will return for 3 days of live music and professional meetings in Paris, the event will take place on 14 to 16 of October...
Posted on: 21/09/2015Categories: Industry Event News
We know that web-blocking has become a favoured anti-piracy tactic for the music and movie industries in countries where web-block injunctions are available under law, and especially in Europe. And we now know that 504 such injunctions have been issued across the continent, or at least that's according to a chart presented by the Motion Picture Association at a conference focused on online law enforcement in Southampton last week.
Posted on: 21/09/2015Categories: News from CMU Online
Universal's Island Records has signed Scottish outfit Model Aeroplanes, which is double news because they are the first band to be signed after self-releasing tracks via the Universal-owned digital distribution platform Spinnup, which Island now uses as one of its talent-scouting tools.
Posted on: 21/09/2015Categories: News from CMU Online