PLASA Events has confirmed over 40 exhibitors new to this year's event, as pre-registrations look set to match 2008 levels and two major new features join the PLASA09 line up, heralding another bumper year for new product launches. Pre-registration is still open with a 50% discount for online bookings. New or returning to the show are Adam Hall, A.T. Industries, All Access Staging & … [Read more...]
XL Tours the universe with Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode continue their amazing live performance career, touring their 12th studio album "Sounds of The Universe", presenting yet another elegant visual mix of innovative aesthetics, technology and dynamics to their fans worldwide. Once again, XL Video is supplying video equipment – Custom built screen, cameras/PPU, Catalyst media servers - and crew to the production. Jon Shrimpton … [Read more...]
XL Video gets festive in the park
XL Video supplied an HD camera and playback system plus assorted video extras for several acts appearing at Live Nation's three Hyde Park summer festival events - Hard Rock Calling, Blur and Wireless - which all ran consecutively in London's most central greenfield location. This was project managed by Chris Saunders for XL, assisted by Zoe Minter. The artist line up included the Killers, … [Read more...]
XL Video streams on at Download
XL Video supplied a completely integrated video package to the 2009 metal-tastic Download Festival at Donnington Park, Derby, UK. This year XL's brief included 72 hours of live internet streaming, a broadcast spec, HD camera system and screens package for Stage 1. Other services facilitated by XL included an HD record for Live Nation TV and VH1, MMS/SMS relay to screen, plus a standard … [Read more...]
XL Video invested for Take That
XL Video's history with Take That dates right back to their first touring days in the 1990's, when Des Fallon (now a director of XL Video) worked as the video crew chief. Since then, XL has enthusiastically supported Take That and Chris Vaughan at The Production Office, and has invested substantially in new video technology each time they have hit the road, and in particular since their comeback … [Read more...]
