Colours of Ostrava is usually the largest multi-genre live music and performance festival in the Czech Republic and one of the most popular events on the European festival calendar, offering 22 stages of diverse and vibrant entertainment across four days in mid-July. It is staged in the stunning raw industrial environment of the former Dolní Vitkovice (DOV) steelworks – now tastefully reimagined as an important cultural and heritage centre – near Ostrava in the north-east of the country.

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Stage

4.11.2025

Robe for OLP30 Tour

Canadian lighting designer Michael “Herk” Herkimer of HLX experienced a slight career epiphany when lead singer Raine Maida of popular award-winning Canadian alt-rockers Our Lady Peace (OLP) briefed him ahead of the band’s 2025 Canadian tour!

Stage

31.10.2025

Anirudh In The RoboSpot Light in Chennai

Indian superstar Anirudh recently played an incendiary homecoming show as the grand finale to his “Hukum” world tour, staged at a special site in Kuvathur on the East Coast Road (ECR) in Chennai, India, complete with a spectacular lighting design by Bala Subramanya (Vinod), Albin Biju and Guru Somayaji from Bangalore-based design studio, 369 Design Lab.

Events

1.7.2025

Rock For People

The Rock For People music festival celebrated its 30th anniversary in style with an impressive 5-day event, an all-star lineup and an expanded capacity of 50,000 which saw a fully sold-out audience flock to the Park 360 site in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic – a former military airfield dating back to the 1930s – approximately 100 kilometres east of Prague.

Investment

15.10.2025

Dalhalla Invests in New Robe iFORTE Moving Lights

Dalhalla, a unique open-air amphitheatre set in the former Draggängarna limestone quarry in central Sweden, is arguably one of the coolest and most interesting live music venues in Europe, popular for its summer seasons featuring a range of music and artists – rock and pop, musicals and sometimes opera performances.