Luke Combs closed his My Kinda Saturday Night tour with three sold-out shows at London’s at Wembley Stadium in front of around 90,000 people each night, prompting Guinness World Records to certify him as the first solo country artist to headline the venue. Audio for every date of the tour across North America and Europe was handled by US event production company Special Event Services (SES) using an Outline GTO line array system.
It is the fourth consecutive year that SES has supplied and employed Outline's flagship system for the production. Until this year, the Outline rig had covered dates in North American and Canada, while overseas dates were served by locally sourced systems.
For 2026, SES shipped its own GTO inventory across the Atlantic and moved it through six countries in five weeks, so that the platform, the tuning and the crew that opened the tour in Las Vegas in March were the same ones that closed it in London.
Between opening at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas and finishing at Wembley, the tour visited Montreal, Toronto, Gothenburg (60,826 people at Ullevi, the largest country music audience recorded in the Nordic region), Paris, Amsterdam, Slane Castle in Ireland and Scotland.
Thomas Rhett opened all three nights, joining Combs on stage for ‘1, 2 Many’ on the closing evening; the second show also featured a guest appearance by Niall Horan.
At Wembley the system ran end-stage, rather than in the 360° in-the-round configuration used on selected US dates. The main hangs combined GTO modules with GTO-DF down-fill and GTO-Sub low-frequency elements, Mantas 28 arrays handled out-fill, and delay towers built from GTO and GTO C-12 carried coverage to the furthest sections of the bowl. Beneath the stage, Lab 21-HS infra-subwoofers anchored the bottom octave, with LIPF-082 front fill loudspeakers placed directly on top of them. Two Outline Newton FPGA processors handled system control and optimisation.
System design was led by Sound Designers Jason Farah and Joe Lefebvre, who used Outline's OpenArray 3D simulation software to model each venue in advance, with Todd Lewis at front of house. Worldwide production was overseen by Production Manager Jerry Slone. Concert Stuff Group (CSG), a leading US provider of touring production services, supported the run through its specialised divisions – Special Event Transportation for equipment haulage, Guardian for barricade and cable management, and Field Protection Agency for turf and venue surface protection. The growth of the production, from arenas to full-scale stadium environments, has been coordinated for CSG by Chief Strategy Officer, Michael Brammer.