Wembley Stadium Sets Attendance Record During Biggest Concert Season

TicketNews: Wembley Stadium has completed the largest summer concert season in its history after welcoming more than 2.5 million music fans to 34 shows between June and September. The 90,000-capacity London stadium increased its concert schedule by about 30% compared with 2025, when it presented 26 shows. This year’s program established a venue record for the number of concerts held during a single calendar year.

Bad Bunny Tour shines with Claypaky Ultimo Sharpys

LightSoundJournal.com: International superstar Bad Bunny is using 286 Claypaky Ultimo Sharpy fixtures on his “Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour,” which continues this year after hugely successful runs in Latin America, Europe and other destinations around the world. Inner Circle Distribution (ICD) is the exclusive distributor of Claypaky lighting fixtures in North America.

TSL strengthens concert touring team with industry experts

TPi: TSL has reinforced its concert touring and festival team with a series of senior industry appointments, bringing decades of touring and festival experience into the business and expanding its capability to deliver lighting and rigging services at the highest level.

There’s a reason to get to LAX early: the airport’s concert series

LAist: In my time going to shows in and around L.A., I’ve seen DJ sets all over — in parks, backyards, Thai restaurants, quinceañera venues, plus a few other spots I’m not going to blow up here. But despite being a big Brian Eno fan, seeing a show at an airport was completely new for me, even though LAX puts on concerts and DJ sets about once every couple weeks as part of their “LAX Presents” performance series.

Inside Ed Sheeran’s World Tour with CAST’s WYSIWYG

LightSoundJournal.com: Lights Control Rigging (LCR) is one of the UK’s most respected lighting rental companies, trusted by globally recognized artists and major event producers alike. Among its most ambitious projects is Ed Sheeran’s monumental world tour, a groundbreaking in-the-round production that redefines how audiences experience live performance.

‘An Unbelievable Mess’: Artists Are Stymied by Trump Travel Bans

The New York Times: The travel bans — along with escalating costs and delays in the always-fraught visa application process — represent a looming crisis for the American performing arts sector, as many overseas musicians, theater companies and others face new and seemingly insurmountable obstacles to travel. Some, assessing the risks, are electing to avoid coming here altogether, according to talent agents and the American promoters and producers who are now contemplating holes in their calendars.

Brian May Reveals Reason the Band Won’t Tour in the U.S.

www.thedailybeast.com: “America is a dangerous place at the moment, so you have to take that into account,” he said. “It’s very sad because I feel like Queen grew up in America, and we love it, but it’s not what it was. Everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment.”

A 3-day Broadway Concert is Happening in the Hudson Valley This Summer: How to Get Tickets

www.timeout.com/newyork: New York theatre’s summer plans just got a major new addition. In August, a first-of-its-kind, three-day outdoor Broadway celebration will head north of the city, transforming Kingston’s historic Hutton Brickyards into a destination for musical theatre fans. Running August 14–16, The Festival reimagines Broadway as a full-scale festival experience, blending big voices, beloved songs and scenic Hudson Valley surroundings.

Green Day to Kick Off Super Bowl LX Opening Ceremony

variety.com: Bay Area natives Green Day will kick off Super Bowl LX’s opening ceremony, the NFL announced on Sunday. It all takes place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. According to the announcement, the band “will open Super Bowl LX by ushering generations of Super Bowl MVPs onto the field with a dynamic performance of their most iconic rock anthems.”

Universal Pixels brings in-the-round Radiohead show to life

AV Magazine: Radiohead’s hotly anticipated return to touring demanded a live production that matched their instinct for reinvention. Working with a talented group of live production specialists, the band designed a show that moved and evolved with each audience across the 20 dates and five cities of their European tour.

Broadway Bound Kids Perseveres a Turbulent Landscape for Arts Education with a Star-Studded Benefit Concert

www.broadwayworld.com: The stage belongs to everyone and no one believes that more than Broadway Bound Kids (BBK), a nonprofit dedicated to providing empowering and inclusive arts education to New York City youth. BBK’s mission has always been to provide transformative and accessible performing arts programs to young artists and their communities that face societal and financial barriers.

Oasis Live ’25 tour brings the biggest band of the ’90s back with DiGiCo on monitors

LightSoundJournal.com: Announced two days before the 30th anniversary of Oasis’ debut album, Definitely Maybe, the Oasis Live ’25 tour marks the band’s first live appearances since they acrimoniously split in 2009. The trek, which has crossed the UK, North and South America, Australia, and Asia, was so highly anticipated that it had the serendipitous and unexpected outcome of prompting six of Oasis’ previous LP releases to re-enter the UK charts, one of which even made it back into the top ten.

dBTechnologies preview VIO L1610 and S218

TPi: Marco Cantalù, Senior Application Support – Education at dBTechnologies, and Marketing Coordinator Stefano Bini, discuss the engineering benefits of VIO L1610 and S218 in real-world applications.

Smoking Bans in Music Venues: How They Changed the Concert Business

www.billboard.com: When Bruce Finkelman opened the Empty Bottle in 1993, he smoked cigarettes, like many of his customers. It was part of his vision for the Chicago rock club: “The small, dark, smoky jazz room or rock ‘n’ roll club. Dingy. That really romantic view of the door opening up and smoke billowing out.” But like every other venue in Chicago and just about everywhere else, Empty Bottle has been smoke-free for decades — and Finkelman, now a non-smoking marathon runner, can’t imagine it any other way. “Even if I smell smoke,” the club’s owner says today, “I’m like, ‘Ugh.'”

The Argo in Milwaukee Sets Opening Date With 40-Show Concert Calendar

www.billboard.com: Milwaukee’s newest live entertainment hub, The Argo, will officially open its doors next month inside the historic Fox Bay Theater in Whitefish Bay, anchoring a full-scale renovation of the 1949 Art Deco building and marking the debut of a new mid-size venue for the region’s touring circuit.

GLP MAD MAXX creates high visual impact over The Weeknd’s touring city skyline

LightSoundJournal.com: Globally renowned singer-songwriter The Weeknd has become the first major touring artist in North America to use GLP’s mighty MAD MAXX CW searchlights – on his long running After Hours til Dawn world tour, which is set to run until August 2026.

Dave Matthews Band elevates summer tour with Elation Lighting

LightSoundJournal.com: Dave Matthews Band (DMB) took their signature live show on the road this past summer, delighting fans across North America with their deep catalog of eclectic hits and jam numbers. Wrapped in August, the tour featured a large Elation lighting package, including PROTEUS, PULSE, and SŌL series luminaires, part of an artfully-designed production that helped reinforce the band’s status as a must-see touring act.

Les Misérables: The Arena Concert Spectacular Will Play Radio City Music Hall This Summer

Playbill: The acclaimed concert production of the international hit musical will play the Manhattan venue July 23-August 2, 2026. Interested theatregoers can sign up at NYC.LesMis.com for access to the Radio City Music Hall pre-sale, which begins October 22 at 10 AM ET. Tickets will go on sale to the general public October 24 at 10 AM ET via Ticketmaster.

ABBA show and A’s stadium might be a Las Vegas Strip match

Kats!: Moments into “ABBA Voyage” at ABBA Arena, you think, “This belongs at Sphere.” There is no higher compliment. It is also impossible. The massively successful concert experience has been running in London for three years. The show sells out seven shows per week in a custom-designed, 3,000-capacity arena. More than 3 million ticket-holders have descended on the show.

ABBA Voyage Sells Over 1 Million Tickets in 2024, Brings in $140 Million

TicketNews: The company reported turnover of $112.9 million for the year, up 0.6% from 2023 at average exchange rates. Most of that came from ABBA Voyage ticket sales, which totaled 1.06 million. Ticket revenue dropped 1.9% year-over-year to $107.85 million, compared with 1.1 million tickets sold in 2023.