On Saturday July 2, more than one million fans packed into nine concert venues across four continents for the Live 8 concerts.

Dr Lynne Tammi-Connelly rests on her ‘Long Walk for Justice’ after crossing the old Forth Road Bridge, en route from Montrose to Edinburgh. These were used downstage for framing the stage and upstage for making an arched entrance either side.But the person who had them working for them could also hold on to all that money until they’d reached the age of adulthood. Sennheiser UK supported Live 8 London with over 500 Sennheiser Evolution 900 Series and Neumann microphones, 5 miles (8km) of microphone cable and more than 100 channels of wireless mikes, guitar and personal monitoring systems. According to Marc Vincent of Sennheiser Canada, “We supplied about 70 wired Sennheiser and Neumann mikes, 30 channels of wireless mikes and personal monitoring systems, with additional wired Sennheiser mikes coming from the PA company, Jason Audio. Access to internationally recognized national human rights institutions, however, remains overdue in 78 countries, in particular in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa.

Lighting designer Thomas Beck had a full rig that was used two nights later for the July 4th Freedom Concert designed by LD John Featherstone. In 2018–2019, according to available data, national authorities destroyed on average 48 per cent of the weapons seized, found and surrendered. In all but 7 of 73 countries and areas with available survey data from 2005 to 2015, more than half of children between the ages of 1 and 14 were subjected to some form of psychological aggression and/or physical punishment at home. These were just some of the challenges that faced Fife-raised Angus woman Dr Lynne Tammi-Connelly when she set off on a 100+-mile trek from her home at Ferryden, Montrose, to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Data from 2016 to 2018 show that the proportion of prisoners held in detention without being sentenced for a crime is 31 per cent, the same level as in 2005.For more on the shared lighting rig used in Philadelphia, see the September issue of Lighting Dimensions.