Of the top 10 music touring acts on Pollstar’s chart as of late April, two date back to the 1970s (the Eagles, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band); two more hit their peaks in the 1980s (Metallica, Van Halen); the 1990s are represented by the Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, Counting Crows, Radiohead and the Stone Temple Pilots.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The Backstreet Boys, the best-selling boy band of all time with over 100-million album sales worldwide and a dozen U.S. top 40 hits to their name, are back on the road with their Unbreakable Tour. The line-up may have slimmed down from five to four members, but the boys haven't changed their preference for Sennheiser vocal microphones, once again opting to use SKM 565 G2 wireless handhelds, along with Sennheiser ew 300 IEM G2 personal monitoring systems.
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The ProDesk-4 small format console is available in five different input formats. Available in 16, 24, 32, 40 and 48 mono mic/line input channels, ProDesk-4 includes 4 Stereo Line Only input channels, each selectable from two different input sources and controlled from 100 mm faders with stereo EQ and access to all aux buses.
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SAN DIEGO – Founded in early 2000, San Diego’s Rock Church has earned a reputation for its uplifting, high-energy services and busy concert schedule that consistently draw large audiences week after week. Late last year, the Rock Church and Academy finally opened its own permanent facility in Point Loma, where the large sanctuary is equipped with a combination of L-ACOUSTICS KUDO and dV-DOSC line source array cabinets in a LCR configuration, plus ARCS cabinets for side-fill coverage.
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MAIDSTONE, England – Since the long-running BBC Radio 1 Roadshow morphed into the One Big Weekend series of outdoor festival-style shows in 2000, the production values have progressively increased to a point where nothing less than the most cutting-edge audio systems are now acceptable. This year, four separate stages and thousands of music fans descended on Mote Park to enjoy a bill headlined by no less than Madonna herself. But more true to the traditional Roadshow ethos was the Outdoor Stage, which featured a range of DJ performances and a large Turbosound Aspect PA system.
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CHICAGO – Wise Fool’s Pub, a double storefront space on Lincoln Avenue, originally opened in 1968. Since then, blues legends like Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Son Seals, KoKo Taylor, Lonnie Brooks, Buddy Guy and Mighty Joe Young have played there, including George Thorogood, who made his first Chicago appearance there.
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BEIJING – DiGiCo UK has been selected to provide several DS-00 digital consoles to NBC during the network’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics from Beijing, China, beginning Aug. 8. The announcement was made by Dave Mazza, senior vice president Engineering, NBC Olympics, and James Gordon, DiGiCo managing director. The DiGiCo consoles will support NBC’s coverage of basketball, boxing and indoor volleyball.
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MANCHESTER, England – The match for the world boxing championship in front of an audience of 55,000 was amplified by “Butterfly”, the line array by Outline of Brescia (Italy). The contestants were Mexico’s Juan Lazcano and England’s Ricky Hatton (the latter won, thus retaining his IBO light-welterweight title).
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand – The City Impact Church, known and respected for its positive influence throughout the community of Auckland, New Zealand, recently installed an Adamson SpekTrix Line Array System in the main Sanctuary of the brand new building.
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BERKELY, Calif. – “The audience pays to hear Dolly and it’s my job to make sure they can,” says Michael Fechner, Dolly Parton’s longtime house engineer and production manager, who recently joined hands with Taylor, Mich.-based Thunder Audio to power Parton’s “Backwoods Barbie” world tour with a Meyer Sound system.
LAS VEGAS – It’s time again to recognize the foot soldiers of the live audio industry. FOH Magazine is now taking nominations for the 2008 FOH Hometown Hero Awards. If you know or work with a local or regional soundco that consistently goes above and beyond to get the gig right, then let us know. Go here and fill out the name of the company, city and state, contact info, region, and one or two sentences on why they should get the nomination.
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WHITINSVILLE, Mass. – The upcoming U.S. concert tour by legendary rock band Foreigner will feature veteran engineer Don “Dodger” Dodge using an EAW UMX.96 digital console, revisiting the successful formula employed during the band’s 2007-08 world concert tour.
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