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Tuesday, March 05, 2013
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03/05/13 10:57 AM,
Last year’s tour package of Blondie and Devo filled theaters across the U.S., with New Hampshire-based RPM Dynamics putting together the touring control system, including a Midas PRO6 at front of house a PRO2C for monitors. RPM Productions principal Jim Roese designed the control package, built the racks and hit the road with the tour as production manager and monitor engineer for Blondie. “The main reason we chose Midas is obviously the sound of the consoles,” he says. “That was…
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Kevin Young
01/11/13 03:48 PM,
Joe Jackson is best known to many for a string of breakthrough pop-rock/New Wave hits that began with 1979’s “Is She Really Going Out With Him?” but the British singer, songwriter, and composer (and five-time Grammy Award nominee) has explored a variety of musical styles over his stellar career. His latest tour is no exception; a series of live shows in the U.S. and Europe in late 2012 featured both reinterpretations of his own material and selections from his latest…
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
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12/12/12 10:03 AM,
Dynamic productions call for top-caliber design and deployment of lighting. As with all projects in AVL production, the key is developing an appropriate artistic vision and then making it happen through effective use of available technologies. Let’s take a look at some recent lighting projects of note. Seal World Tour A mixture of Philips Vari-Lite fixtures are providing the hub for a visual fusion of lighting, video and automation on Seal’s current world tour. London-based lighting designer Theo Cox, who…
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
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08/14/12 11:20 AM,
It’s been nearly 40 years since Bruce Springsteen’s debut Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ, and judging from the 3-hour-plus shows, sold-out arenas, and glowing critical reviews, both rocker and band [minus the late, beloved saxophonist Clarence Clemons and keyboardist Danny Federici] are still regaling in their ‘Glory Days.’ With the Wrecking Ball Tour, in support of their 17th studio album, Springsteen & Co are heading into a two-month U.S. fall stadium tour following a massive world tour that started in…
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Friday, April 06, 2012
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04/06/12 12:54 PM,
With a self-contained operation that played about 265 live dates in 2011, multi-instrumental country music artist Amber Leigh recently acquired an Allen & Heath iLive-T112 digital mixing console with a companion iDR-48 MixRack. “It’s really important for us to have consistency and to be self-contained, so we needed something we could travel with whether we’re on a bus or an airplane,” says Holland Ryan, the band’s sound engineer. Playing fiddle, guitar and mandolin while blending country, Irish and bluegrass influences…
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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01/11/12 11:54 AM,
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Deborah Harry and her band Blondie are still going strong nearly 40 years since they got together. The lineup these days includes core members Chris Stein on guitar and drummer Clem Burke, along with Matt Katz-Bohen on keyboards, Lee Fox on bass, and Tommy Kessler on guitar. The group took to the road in 2011 in support of Panic of Girls, their ninth studio album. At the tour’s audio controls was Rod Nielsen of Austin, TX-based Big House Sound on…
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01/11/12 10:49 AM,
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Celtic punk band Flogging Molly is currently touring the world with a Soundcraft Vi1 as its monitor console. For nearly 15 years, Flogging Molly has played its blend of traditional Irish sounds, hard-edged punk and thoughtful, socially conscious lyrics to millions across the globe. The year 2011 saw the release of the band’s most important and ambitious album to date, Speed Of Darkness, which debuted in the Top 10 (#9 overall). The album was praised for its “call to arms”…
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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11/15/11 10:57 AM,
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Britannia Row Productions is enjoying a busy autumn and winter season, with its entire Midas digital inventory out on major international tours. Two XL8s continue on Jamiroquai’s world tour, with Rick Pope at front of house and Tristan Farrow on monitors. “Out of all the digital boards that I’ve used in the live environment, the XL8 is sonically by far the best,” says Pope of the XL8. “The definition in one’s mix can only be described as 3-D; I have…
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Greg DeTogne
11/14/11 02:33 PM,
Hopscotching from New York, D.C., and Miami Beach to Oakland, Brian Ferry returned to the U.S. for the first time since 2002 this fall, bringing with him the stylized panache he’s cultivated for some 40 years now plus a hard-rocking cast of 12, including guitarist Oliver Thompson, sax player Jorja Chalmers, and stalwart drummer Paul Thompson, who has underscored Ferry’s efforts since his early days as frontman with Roxy Music. With its sinuous guitar solos tightened, Thompson’s rhythmic precision undiminished,…
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
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08/11/11 02:24 PM,
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“Our aim is to prove that pop music can still be alternative and exciting,” declares singer Shingai Shoniwa of British indie rock band the Noisettes. Along with guitarist Dan Smith, the Noisettes have been shaking up crowds across the United States and Europe with their incendiary live shows and rowdy mix of rock, funk, pop, soul and other less-categorizable sounds. The band has released two albums, What’s the Time, Mr. Wolf? and Wild Young Hearts with a third due out…
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