Linkin Park are back on the road for 50-plus shows on their From Zero World Tour, which takes the band through stadia and arenas from Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros to Porto Alegre, Brazil, and pretty much everywhere in between. ‘Getting back out on the road has been incredible,’ band co-founder Mike Shinoda said in a statement about the trek promoting the group’s new set. ‘We’re ready to take this energy even further around the world.’

Breaking a seven-year hiatus, the band gave a taste of what’s to come on a whirlwind mini tour of key regions where they would subsequently perform multiple shows in, including Europe and Asia, which also served to introduce new band members co-vocalist Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain.

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Offering visitors an immersive VR journey to the moon, a view of Earth from space, and the opportunity to walk on the lunar surface and take souvenir photographs, The Moon Cruise VR installation has opened its doors to the public in Tokyo – with Powersoft taking a stellar role.

The Moon Cruise is a free-roaming VR installation permanently installed in a new facility themed around ‘space travel’ called Space Travelium TeNQ. The space entertainment facility has permanent and special exhibits, as well as workshops to provide visitors with a single world-view learning experience,’ says Tsuyoshi Nomura, executive officer at STYLY Inc, the company charged with the technical design of the experience.

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Sixty years into his career Sir Tom Jones is recently wrapping a 74-date tour of the UK, Europe and North America. The Ages & Stages Tour showcases songs from throughout his career, with an SSL Live L550 Plus console at FOH and a Live L100 Plus on a B rig for some tight turnarounds on the European leg of the tour.

Gavin Tempany is at FOH for the tour explaining that ‘with the routing of this tour we have to have two sets of equipment. On the A rig, I have an L550 Plus, which offers 38 faders as standard. On the B rig, I’m using an L100 Plus with an external Fader Tile, providing a total of 26 faders – 14 on the console itself and 12 more with the remote Fader Tile.’

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Hosting touring musicals, dance productions, comedy and drama, the Theatre Royal Plymouth (TRP) recently followed the installation of EM Acoustics loudspeaker systems its the 200-seat Drum Theatre and 50-seat Lab. Following suite in the 1,300-capacity Lyric Theatre (which can be reduced to 800 through the adjustment of a unique moving roof) replacing a 30-year-old sound system with an EM Reference Series system.

‘I’ve been using EM products for years across all the venues in the theatre,’ says Head of Sound Dan Mitcham. ‘We’ve always had a great relationship with them, and the upgrade to EM for the Lyric just made sense – we knew what the products were capable of.

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Sleep Token have divided the world of metal, some seeing their use of influences from outside of the genre as groundbreaking, others as heretical. From lyrics delivered by frontman Vessel that address non-metal, and often personal, issues to the technical precision and genre-mining of the beat beneath them from ‘II’, they are an enigmatic prospect. The British band also obscure their identities by playing masked, and have largely avoided engaging with both fans and the music press.

FOH engineer Thom Pike has been with the band since their third gig in 2018. For most recent tour, his mixing desk of choice was a DiGiCo Quantum 338, with Samuel Schmitt, a long-time DiGiCo user, also using a Quantum 338 for his monitor mix.

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