ITA: K-array Celebrates National Holiday at All-Day Music Festival Live by Thomas Richard - May 16, 2018 The Primo Maggio Concert is all-day music festival organized annually on the first of May to celebrate Italy's Labor Day. Set in Piazza San Giovanni in Rome and broadcast live on public television, this popular national event is also referred to as the Concertone or “Big Concert” due to the duration
USA: The Yost Makes Events Extraordinary with Help of Elation Lighting News by Thomas Richard - May 16, 2018 Legendary venue The Yost in Santa Ana, California, is enjoying new life as a modern live event space thanks to entertainment production company N-EFFECT Productions and an entertainment technology package that includes Elation Professional lighting. First opened in 1913 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the space
USA: HES HEX Gives Bright Flexibility to Carly Rae Jepsen’s Rig Live by Thomas Richard - May 16, 2018 Canadian pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen counted on 14 High End Systems HEX fixtures to provide a literal “eyeful” of stage lighting looks for her supporting act on Katy Perry’s recent Witness: The Tour in North America. LD Charles Ford’s challenge was creating a design in the space, or “iris” of
GBA: Robe MegaPointes for Voice of A Million 2018 Live by Thomas Richard - May 16, 2018 New Robe MegaPointes and LEDBeam 150s, purchased by SJ from Birmingham UK based rental and technical specialist DMX Productions, were used to spectacular effect in lighting the 2018 Voice in a Million (VIAM) extravaganza which was staged at London’s SSE Wembley Arena. VIAM amasses some of the largest children’s choirs in
USA: Elation Lights for Andy Grammer “The Good Parts” Tour Live by Thomas Richard - May 16, 2018 American singer Andy Grammer spread his refreshing brand of feel-good music across North America this spring on his “The Good Parts” tour, a club outing of mostly sold out shows in support of his latest release. Lighting design and programming was by Joshua Koffman of Interrobang, Inc., who used a
USA: VUE Scores at First-Annual Charleston Marley Cup Live by Thomas Richard - May 15, 2018 Las Vegas and now also Charleston-based H.A.S. Productions debuted their East Coast VUE al-12 line array system at the first-annual, and first-of-its-kind Marley Cup on March 31, 2018. The brainchild of Bob Marley’s son, Ky-Mani Marley, The Dubplates, and The Charleston Battery club, the all-day, all-ages event brought together the
USA: Philips VL6000 Beams deliver knock-out punch for the Foo Fighters Live by Thomas Richard - May 15, 2018 Philips Lighting's VL6000 Beam luminaires are delivering stand-out visuals for American rock band Foo Fighters' current world tour, which heads towards Europe this summer. Foo Fighters' long-term lighting designer Dan Hadley chose the powerful, retro-styled Philips VL6000 Beam fixtures for very particular reasons. With the diagonal square artwork of the band's
USA: Sweet Dreams for Robe on Børns Tour Live by Thomas Richard - May 15, 2018 Being involved creatively with innovative emerging artists is always exciting, and lighting designer Matthieu Larivee has relished the chance to work with American singer / songwriter Børns on his current ‘Blue Madonna’ tour, which sees the interesting young star receiving plenty of attention and acclaim. Matthieu decided to put 15 x
AUS: Superfly And TAPFS – Outline’s Latest Design Shines On Live by Thomas Richard - May 15, 2018 The Australian Pink Floyd’s 2018 tour marks 30 years of celebrating the music of one of the most influential bands of all time. In those three decades TAPFS have sold in excess of four million concert tickets, performed in 35 countries and were even engaged by legendary Pink Floyd guitarist
USA: Hog 4 Controls Evanescence’s Synthesis Live Tour Live by Thomas Richard - May 15, 2018 LD Marty Postma of NY-based Retinal Resonance A High End Systems Hog 4 console is touring the world with rock group Evanescence. LD Marty Postma of NY-based Retinal Resonance has been using the Hog 4 console to control Evanescence’s Synthesis Live tour in North America. Postma designed and operated this tour