International News

PESCARA, Italy — New Sound Service used Proel Sound Reinforcement systems for Tim Cup 2009, a major Italian soccer event. This year’s contest featured Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan in a three-way battle for the Cup at the at the Stadio Adriatico.

KANAGAWA, Japan — MSI Japan has joined the L-Acoustics Rental Network and taken delivery of a K1/KUDO system and LA-RAK touring racks fitted with LA8 amplified controllers. MSI Japan’s director, Shuzo Fujii, also met recently with L-Acoustics founder Dr. Christian Heil.

BURNLEY, U.K. — The Burnley Football Club was put to the test recently with a match against Manchester United, and the home team playing at Turf Moor stadium scored a David-vs.-Goliath upset victory. That meant the stadium’s recently-upgraded PA system would also need to overcome a worthy opponent — the roar of an excited home-team crowd.

NOTTINGHAM, U.K. — Merlin PA recently purchased an Allen & Heath iLive-T system, comprising an iDR-48 MixRack with iLive-T112 Control Surface, to add to its touring inventory.

BIRMINGHAM, U.K. — The Academy Music Group (AMG) has once again recruited the production team of Adlib Audio (sound), Utopium (lighting) and Dimension Audio (video projection and distribution) for its latest venue, O2 Academy Birmingham.

EAST ANGLIA, U.K. — Festinho 2009, a U.K.-based celebration of Brazilian music that also raises funds to benefit Jimmy Page’s Action for Brazil’s Children charity, has received ongoing and increasing support from Harman Professional.

VIENNA — At the headquarters of the Austrian Lotteries, the Studio 44 venue, originally built for internal use has been put to work for clients such as Ford Motor Company, Coca Cola, BP and Google. A DiGiCo SD7 and two SD8s were recently added to its equipment inventory.

MADRID — The Main Theater and the black-box Theater Configurable in the Teatros del Canal, a performing arts complex designed by Spanish architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg, was equipped with Meyer Sound’s self-powered M1D and M’elodie line array loudspeaker systems.

CALVI, Corsica — Tourists may find the Mediterranean breezes here to be a taste of paradise, but they can also wreak havoc with sound production. That was partly the reason that Powerlive sound engineer Pierre Angeli opted for an Allen & Heath digital iLive system to manage FOH sound at the recent Calvi Jazz festival.

LONDON — The Kingsway International Christian Centre’s (KICC) annual London event, called the International Gathering of Champions (IGOC), drew a daily crowd of close to 12,000 to London’s ExCeL Centre and was broadcast live to an estimated 55 million followers in Africa, the Caribbean and Europe. Organizers relied upon an audio system that included a Midas XL8 Live Performance System and Klark Teknik DN9696 high resolution audio recorder.

JIANGBEI CITY, China — The Chongqing Grand Theatre is home to performance spaces that can accommodate 1,850 and 930. L-Acoustics loudspeaker systems supplied by Chinese distributor Rightway Audio have been installed in both the larger and medium-sized theaters.

AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands — Dutch theater De Flint has purchased a Midas PRO6 live audio system from Midas Consoles Benelux after its sound technicians agreed to go with the Midas digital platform based on sonic performance and value for the Euro.