Live Nation Canada Marks Earth Week With New Sustainability Milestones at Rogers Stadium
Live Nation Canada is marking Earth Week by highlighting major progress underway at Rogers Stadium to reduce waste, cut single‑use plastics, and advance Green Nation, the company’s global commitment to lowering the environmental impact of live events. These efforts are made possible through close collaboration with partners across the venue, including Liberty Oak View Group, […]
How the BRIT Awards and Coldplay are leading sustainable touring with Hope Solutions
Sustainability is fast becoming one of the most urgent challenges facing the live music and events industry, with increasing pressure on artists, promoters and organisers to reduce environmental impact without compromising the scale and experience of modern productions. At the forefront of this shift are our friends Hope Solutions, a specialist consultancy working across music, media […]
Ultra’s battery-powered triumph: ‘This is the future of live’
The electronic festival recently made history by deploying a zero-emission battery system from Showpower at its US edition last month. Ultra Music Festival’s sustainability director has hailed battery-powered systems as “the future of live events” after successfully deploying a zero-emission power unit for a main stage. Last month, the major electronic event made history as […]
Hope Solutions and The Noise We Make with Paul Schurink Co-Founder of Showpower Global B.V.
What if the biggest shift in live events isn’t visible on stage, but happening behind the scenes? Showpower’s Paul Schurink is rethinking how live events are powered from the ground up. For decades, temporary power has been treated as a last-minute logistical decision — oversized systems, diesel dependency, and inefficiencies built in by default. Paul […]
IQ Magazine Global Stadium Report 2025
The Global Stadium Report is the first publication dedicated to global stadium touring worldwide. For artists, promoters, venues and artist managers, this is a great resource to discover innovations and activities across the major stadiums across the world, who are hosting the biggest artists and their stadium shows. As stadium infrastructure, demands for accommodating a […]
Coldplay get giddy as they smash Wembley Stadium record
Coldplay celebrated the end of their record-breaking 10-show run at Wembley Stadium with a dazzling, multi-coloured night of musical magic. Playing hits from every era of their 25-year career, they filled the stadium with light, and even indulged themselves with a giddy version of Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody. “This is the song […]
Sustainability behind the scenes at Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres World Tour at Wembley Stadium
This week, Georgina Chapman and Anthony King caught up with Showpower’s Rob Scully and Tim Benson at Wembley Stadium, just ahead of Coldplay’s final and record breaking tenth UK concert. Here Georgina and Anthony saw first hand how the SmartGrid system has been powering Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres World Tour with 100% battery power […]
Coldplay “Music of the Spheres” World Tour reviewed for The Guardian
After 3 years on the road and selling more that 12m tickets to-date, the “Music of the Spheres” World Tour is approaching the close of the 2025 US and UK leg. And with the groundbreaking 10-date residency at Wembley Stadium still to come, there seems to be no stopping the sustainably-focussed tour. The SmartGrid battery […]
Showpower complete successful 2025 US Tour with Coldplay using SmartGrid battery system
After starting the US leg of the Music of the Spheres World Tour in Stanford, California on 31st May and ending at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida on 27th July, Showpower’s Paul Schurink and Tim Benson successfully installed and managed the SmartGrid battery system across all 17 dates in 9 cities. Once again with […]
2025 Impact 50 Honoree: Luke Howell
Not only has Coldplay’s ongoing “Music of the Spheres World Tour” earned the band the distinction of selling more tickets than any artist on a single trek ever (12.8 million) and being the first band to gross $1 billion – and counting – on a tour, but the excursion is one of the most sustainable […]