“As we have found with every new loudspeaker that comes from d&b audiotechnik, the new V-Series does exactly what it says it will in the brochure.” Dick Hayes, Director of Entec’s audio department speaking after another...
“This is an amazing show, a mix of electronic technical instruments, and old fashioned acoustic ones. Some have only been created in the last twelve months. The acoustic instruments are very quiet, and we are playing in the round... 
The purpose built resort of Sun City, lying a couple of hours north west of Johannesburg, is unashamedly dedicated to pleasure and entertainment on a luxury scale. Only the best will do. So the combination of a d&b audiotechnik...
A short distance west of the great city of Alexandria lies the warm coastal region of El Alamein. Now more famous as the most popular summer vacation destination for the majority of Egyptians, El Alamein is these days host to a...
Roger Daltrey’s Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) shows are acquiring legendary status. One of the most potent songs in the Quadrophenia canon, Roger Daltry delivered '5:15' with such power and emotion that even the broadsheets...
To celebrate Istanbul becoming European City of Culture a concert featuring fourteen of Turkey's leading musicians and singers was recently staged at Bağcılar in the city centre. Promoted and organised by Istanbul Municipality...
There are few bands that manage to bridge the divide between mainstream and truly experimental, innovative music; Massive Attack are one of the masters. Their ability appears to lay in the management of sound, especially...
The fourth St. Gallen Festspiele, including a classical open air opera, has earned its place among the finest of Swiss festivals and this year the production of Saint-Saëns’ 'Samson and Delilah' took centre stage in front of the...
In the topsey turvey world of pop music things can change in the twinkling of an eye. Shorter attention spans demand constant re-invention. While much has changed in the Marco Borsato camp since 2006's record breaking series of...
Britain's most revered exponent of the Ukulele has recently passed his fiftieth year on the stage, and done so in some style with a gala performance at London's Royal Albert Hall (RAH). The band that helped him celebrate...
Jackie Stewart, Jim Clark and Rudolf Caracciola. Legendary Formula One drivers, famed for going full throttle on the infamous Nürburgring. But as they rocketed round the ring, did they ever guess that one day, in the not so...
It's a dark pool of sensual immersion that Tool has created, an ocean of havoc where no part of the spectrum, emotional, visual, or aural, isn't saturated to excess. Come with every expectation of having your sensitivity...
One of the most enduring sex symbols of the Spanish pop world, Marta Sánchez, daughter of Spanish opera star Antonio Sánchez Camporro recently completed a major tour of her home country; a tour that has seen her receive plaudits...
Lovers of the pink lolly-pop that is Love Parade have had to quench their appetites for the past two years. But 2007 has seen the joyous return of the ravers and the revellers, albeit in the new location of downtown Essen.
Marco Borsato has created a blend of Latin and North European cultures that makes his impact as a singer irresistible. A consummate vocalist who can turn his rich honeyed tones to many a classic song; Bacarach might be his idiom,...
The arrival of Lordi as last year's surprise winners of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) established a new precedent; essentially anything goes, and that was reflected by the variety of content for ESC 2007 from the Hartwall...
Two nights at Helsinki's largest venue, the Hartwall Arena, not bad for a boy from the wrong side of Queens. But then 50 Cent has become quite the international phenomenon in recent years, even in the frozen north of Europe....
As a way of passing the baton of State, you have to agree that this outdoor musical celebration, with an artistic reflection of the values that have made Europe great, created an unforgettable experience for the completion of the...
In the interests of furthering the cause of peace in the Middle East, His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan recently assembled some of the finest minds on the planet for a period of concentrated brainstorming. Thirty Nobel...
When the Munich Olympic Stadium opened in 1974 it was hailed as one of the most spectacular pieces of architecture since the pyramids. Architect Günther Behnisch and the engineer, Frei Otto, had conceived an Olympic park of...
It's the sixth year for the Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) show, and in six years it appears to have achieved critical mass, becoming an established annual event in the Royal Albert Hall's concert calendar. As prime mover Roger...
When d&b audiotechnik's Belgian partner Amptec learned that the country's national French speaking broadcast company RTBF was looking for a new sound system, they took the opportunity to introduce them to a d&b PA system. "It...
Small(er) but perfectly formed. An oft used cliché but in this instance entirely apt; the Live 8 show from Paris may not have been the biggest (that honour fell to London) but it was perfect in so many ways. Besides, while not...
When it comes to Jazz Italy is a very special country. Gil Evans, elsewhere known only to Jazz aficionados was a superstar here, and Keith Jarrett, the master of almost claustrophobic Chamber Jazz, is filling stadia and other...
It was the social event of Hamburg this summer: the Rothenbaum tennis arena is to the Hanseatic metropolis what Wimbledon is to London. Hence it caused much public interest, when the German Tennis Association together with...
"This was the first time we'd used our Q system," said Mr Sunder of CSP Productions PL, one of the largest equipment rental houses in Singapore. "Setting it up was a breeze; maybe half an hour to hang both sides." CSP were...
Three 'C's made sure that Spain's largest indoor venue, the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, hosted a night to remember. Carrerras: who could not be moved by the magisterial quality of his beautiful tenor voice? Catalonia: surely...
It's a warm sultry evening in the famous medieval city of Siena. The sun has dropped down behind the great Palazzos that enclose the Piazza del Campo, yet you can still feel the heat radiating from their ancient plasterwork,...
"The C3 has worked out really well, Harvey Goldsmith says it sounds brilliant, and (Roger) Daltry said the same". Dick Hayes head of sound at Entec enthusing about his first live action with d&b's new line array module the C3....
