The following is a small selection of events, reported in Audience, that helped to shape the international live music industry over the following two decades. 

With rising wages and low unemployment, the Czech Republic is in good shape economically and its music fans are sustaining a rise in show numbers, primarily in Prague; the country’s dominant market … but there are challenges. Christopher Barrett reports     O n 17 November 1989, eight days after…

LISBON’S 50,000-capacity Nos ALive festival is expanding to four days for its 2020 event to mark the numbers in the calendar year adding up to four. Next year’s edition will take place at Passeio Marítimo de Algés and commence a day earlier, running from 8 to 11 July. Among artistes…

AFTER A successful inaugural year, touring event Festival X will expand to two weekends and visit new cities with its 2020 edition. The first events took place between 28 November and 1 December at Auckland’s Spark Arena (cap. 12,000) in New Zealand, Brisbane Showgrounds (25,490), Sydney Showgrounds (10,000) and Melbourne…

Accuracy, coverage and power in the lower frequencies were John Buitrago’s priorities when specifying the audio system for the Arcoiris Tour by Colombian singer J Balvin. The front-of-house engineer, who has worked with the reggaeton artiste for 11 years, chose a Meyer Sound Leo Family line array system, provided by…

A series of large crosses and geometrically-shaped video screens dominated the performance area at the Johan Cruijff ArenA when it welcomed 40,000 electronic music fans for the Amsterdam Music Festival (AMF). Production designer Maarten Hoogland of event organiser ALDA and Andre Beekmans of visual design specialist The Art of Light…