HSL is supplying a specials package for LD Chris Megginson and the super-hot UK indie rockers White Lies' current European festival tour, which was boosted for the band's appearance at Glastonbury 2009.

Megginson went to HSL to help design a rig that was quick to install in the 20 minute changeover for their Friday afternoon slot on Glasto's Other Stage - which would also make real impact in daylight.

Additionally, the band played the second to headline slot on the John Peel Stage on Saturday night with a modified version of the rig, plus a set in the Guardian Tent on Sunday of the UK's best known festival.

It’s already been described by organiser Michael Eavis as the “best ever” Glastonbury and for audio rental company RG Jones Sound Engineering it marked the third year in succession in charge of the legendary Pyramid Stage. This year the London based company, a member of the Synco Europe Network founded by Ampco, supplied a full Synco package including Synco by Martin Audio W8L Longbow main PA line arrays and Martin Audio delays, a massive Synco cardioid sub-bass array and a complete Synco stage monitoring and drum fill system.

Yasha Morgenstern, deputy production manager of Glastonbury Festival, commented: “We asked RG Jones to provide a redesigned arena system for the Pyramid Stage, to give better coverage and less overspill in that notoriously difficult arena. We are more than pleased with the result, with many reports of improved arena sound this year. Control, monitors and stage ran faultlessly, and visiting artists’ systems were dealt with smoothly. Overall a first-class job.”

A grandMA full-size is controlling moving lights and LED elements for the latest musical sensation to hit London's West End "Sister Act", a new musical comedy based on the smash hit musical starring Whoopi Goldberg. The show, produced by Stage Entertainment and Whoopi Goldberg, has just opened at the London Palladium.

Natasha Katz is the Lighting Designer. When she asked Stuart Porter to programme the show for her - the two have previously worked together on Beauty & The Beast - Porter wanted to use a grandMA system, a decision Katz was happy to support. Porter has increased his specification of the grandMA, and on this show he uses a grandMA full-size, a grandMA light for backup and four MA NSPs. A tablet PC running grandMA remote software is also used to run the lights from stage.

FC Barcelona was crowned European champions of football on May 27^th with a 2 – 0 defeat of Manchester United. That, perhaps, was not unusual. After all, FC Barcelona has won the UEFA Champions League before.

What is more unusual is that FC Barcelona is the first football club in Spain to attain the coveted treble: National League Cup, Kings Cup and UEFA Champions League Cup.

It is certainly not unusual that Martin Professional was chosen to share in a special Three Cups celebration for FC Barcelona at Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona before nearly 100,000 spectators.

Supplier Serveis de l'Espectacle Focus, S.A. provided a Martin package that included MAC 2000 series moving heads, Stagebar 54™ LED battens, Jem ZR33 Hi-Mass™ fog machines and AF-1 fans, together with a large number of followspots, lasers and other special effects for the event. All Martin lighting gear was supplied through Martin’s Spanish distributor Ecler. Lighting designer for the event was by Xavier Costas.

MIPRO, in conjunction with Fuzion plc, introduce a revolutionary new second-generation encrypted digital wireless system designed to overcome the inevitable problems faced by today's conventional analogue and hybrid wireless microphone systems. Fuzion plc, MIPRO’s UK distributors, have been working closely with MIPRO to engineer the system specifically for the UK and European market.

The ACT-82 is a high-quality digital wireless dual-channel receiver providing crystal-clear, secure and interference-free audio transmission. It features 24-bit audio quality, 10 preset EQs (each consisting of 32 parametric filters), true digital RF transmission, proprietary DigitnamicPlus technology and full-colour VFD (Vacuum Fluorescent Display), all housed in a compact 1U case. A wordclock in/out facility is provided to sync digital outputs on the receivers to a central system clock. Digital RF filters offer more sophisticated selectivity to allow much better rejection of adjacent channel interference. With intuitive and accessible controls for easy set-up using a single rotary switch and MIPRO’s ACT (Automatic Channel Targeting) technology for fast channel set-up, this system really does push the boundaries of radio technology.