SYDNEY – The Sarah McLachlan-led Lilith Tour 2010 suffered a number of setbacks, including the cancellation of a number of shows due to soft ticket sales, but McLachlan and her supporters still managed to raise money for women's causes, and McLachlan pressed on with an abridged, five-stop version of the tour in Australia, joined by Kate Miller-Heidke and the Verses.
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VIENNA, Austria – Following his fourth studio album release in September, Trey Songz has teamed up with Usher for the international OMG Tour, utilizing AKG microphones for lead vocals and his band's lead guitar and percussion. He is performing a 40-minute set on each of the 58 nights of the tour.
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MADRID – Named "Best Live Act" at the 2010 European Music Awards earlier this month, Linkin Park's band members invited the crew, including FOH & Monitor engineers "Pooch" Van Druten and "Tater" McCarthy, up on stage. Along with Van Druten and McCarthy, the band has been touring with gear from Adamson and plug-ins from Waves.
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LONDON – When Broadway's Fela! moved to London's National Theatre on the South Bank recently, Tony Award-winning sound designer Robert Kaplowitz took advantage of the auditorium's vastly different form to rework his original soundscape, with a Studer Vista 5 digital console for control.
Read More »TOKYO – Adamson named Matsuda Trading Corporation (MTC Japan) its exclusive distributor in Japan. MTC also represents Lab.gruppen, Turbosound and Tannoy, and currently lists Adamson as their pro speaker brand.
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MONTERREY, Mexico – For the Latin American leg of Spanish pop star David Bisbal's tour in support of Sin Mar Atras, monitor engineer Alberto Liras, who has used DiGiCo D5s and an SD8 on previous tours, decided to switch to a DiGiCo SD9 console, supplied by DiGiCo's Spanish distributor Meyer Sound España.
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LANDSBERG AM LECH and HALVER, Germany – Rain Age GmbH and Go Audio Rental GmbH recently added Midas PRO6 live audio systems to their inventories, purchasing the gear through Midas' German distributor Mega Audio.
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DARWIN, Australia – The Marrara Sporting Complex and TIO Stadium, used for Australian football, cricket, and the biennial Arafura Games, was recently equipped with Community R and WET Series loudspeakers specified by GHD.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Supertramp has embarked on its 70-10 European tour to celebrate its 40th anniversary. With the help of an L- Acoustics K1 line source system provided by German Rental Network agent Sirius Showequipment, the band is performing greatest hits from 11 studio albums.
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LONDON – The hand-built quadraphonic mixing consoles used on Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell world tours are to be auctioned at Bonhams on Dec. 15, with a percentage of the proceeds going to concert industry charity Stage Hand, the new name for the PSA Welfare & Benevolent Fund.
Read More »SANT'OMERO, Italy – Wouldn't a rose by any other name smell as sweet? Perhaps, but they'd be a hard sell on Valentine's Day if Bart and Homer Simpson's names for them – stench-blossoms and crapweeds – took hold.
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DELHI, India – Production crews navigated inconsistent power, organization issues, Dengue fever and other challenges to stage the ceremonies marking the first Commonwealth Games to be held in India.
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