OSLO - Norwegian hip hop/ rap band Karpe Diem played its largest show to date recently at Oslo’s Spektrum Arena. Karpe Diem’s LD Sebastian Ekeberg chose a Martin rig which included some of Martin’s newest products. The show was broadcast on Norwegian TV and will appear on a future DVD release by the band.

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Robe moving lights were featured on the two main stages of the 2013 Brazilian Lollapalooza Festival at São Paulo’s Jockey Club. The principal lighting contractor was São Paulo-based LPL Professional Lighting. Artists rocking the main stages stages included The Flaming Lips, Deadmau5, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Queens of the Stone Age, Kaiser Chiefs, Pearl Jam and more.

BAD KLEINKIRCHHEIM, Austria - Clay Paky lights starred on entertainment pop music show, "Wenn die Musi Spielt," broadcast live by the German public television network. The event took place outdoors on an open air stage in an Austrian ski resort, where the lighting was successfully challenged by an environment of snow and ice.

UDDEVALLA, Sweden – Wireless Solution Sweden AB has named Imlight LL Company as distributor for W-DMX products in Russia. The partnership is a strategic move for Wireless Solution, with Russia promising to be a significant market for this technology in the future.

LONDON – LD Tim Routledge specified 26 Clay Paky 800W Alpha Spot QWO 800 luminaires to British singer Gary Barlow’s UK tour. Barlow is also the frontman of Take That. Routledge is known for his work with Madonna, Katherine Jenkins and Sterophonics. Neg Earth supplied the lighting.

LONDON - Avolites products, including Avolites Media's Ai media server and the Avolites Sapphire Touch, are helping deliver fast moving evocative visuals on The Script's sell out arena world tour. Designed by LD Jamie Thompson, in collaboration with content producers Immersive, the show visuals are operated by US-based Jeffrey Brown.

FRANKFURT, Germany — Prolight + Sound 2013, which rejoined Musikmesse in Frankfurt from April 10-13, 2013, once again drew crowds from around the world with new and improved lighting, video and staging products. The combined exhibitions set an all-time attendance record of more than 113,000 visitors from 142 countries. Here are some lighting and video highlights.

TORONTO – Cast BlackTrax has become an official technical partner of the Eurovision Song Contest this year in Malmö, Sweden. BlackTrax is a tracking technology solution that delivers 3-D and 6-D positioning to controllers for interfacing automated and robotic technologies used extensively in event production.

LONDON - Lighting designer Rick Fisher chose ETC‘s Selador Desire LED fixtures to help light the recent production of David Hare’s The Judas Kiss at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London. “For the kind of work I’m doing – a subtle piece with the lighting concentrating on moods, emotional states, and times of day – I wanted lighting which doesn’t draw attention to itself,” says Fisher. “The Desire fixtures give a very nice, natural looking light, which was a pleasant surprise and a real advance.”

AABYHOEJ, Denmark - When production designer Baz Halpin of Silent House found features he liked with SGM’s new XC-5 LED strobes, he tried them out during rehearsals for P!ink’s world tour and has since chosen them for Taylor Swift’s tour as well. PRG is supplying the fixtures for both artists.