USA: John Colligan “Goes Rogue” For Gov’t Mule Tour Live by Thomas Richard - September 14, 2018 John Colligan of BML-Blackbird Theatrical Services believes that lighting shares an emotional connection to music, flowing with it to tap into experiences deep inside the human soul. Since 2014, Colligan has been part of this powerful union, both witnessing it and contributing to it as lighting designer for jam-band icons
INTL: Robe Enters Another Lifetime with Guns ‘n’ Roses Live by Thomas Richard - September 14, 2018 Guns ‘n’ Roses ‘Not In This Lifetime’ tour continues to steam its way around the world two years after kicking off with an appropriately impressive classic rock lighting and visual design using totally contemporary technology created by Phil Ealy. Phil’s work with the iconic American hard rockers dates back over 30
GBR: Stage Sound Services selects Green Hippo to salute Tall Ships Festival Live by Thomas Richard - September 14, 2018September 14, 2018 The Three Festivals Tall Ships Regatta 2018 saw a magnificent fleet sail from Liverpool to Dublin and then on to Bordeaux. Marking the fifth time Liverpool has hosted a Tall Ships event, extensive celebrations were very much captain’s orders and Stage Sound Services, complete with Green Hippo tech, was on
GBR: DiGiCo SD5 the ideal choice for Diljit Dosanjh UK tour Live by Thomas Richard - September 14, 2018 One of India’s best loved artists, Diljit Dosanjh, paid a visit to the UK earlier this year, playing sell out arena shows in Birmingham, London and Leeds. His Front of House engineer, Fali Damania, chose a DiGiCo SD5 to mix the shows, provided by audio rental company, Delta,a choice that
FIN: dLive Tours with Nelli Matula for Festival Season Live by Thomas Richard - September 14, 2018 With festival season in full swing, Finnish singer / songwriter, Nelli Matula, has embarked on her Summer tour, accompanied by a compact Allen & Heath dLive Wings system for both FOH and monitors. Supplied by HÖG Light & Sound, the tour set-up consists of a dLive C1500 for FOH and a
FRA: PR Lighting AQUAs star at French National Day in Paris Live by Thomas Richard - September 14, 2018 For the main French National Day celebrations in the centre of Paris on July 14th, pyrotechnics company, Groupe F contracted Belgian company, Laser System Europe to stage a spectacular lighting and video display. And they, in turn, needed to look no further than PR Lighting’s IP catalogue, drawing heavily on
BEL: Working Hard for La Demence Live by Thomas Richard - September 14, 2018 Thomas Boets has been creating spectacular production designs incorporating lighting, set and video for Belgium’s diverse, highest profile and hugely successful gay techno party La Demence for several years, and has known the phenomenon’s mastermind Thierry Coppens for over 20. Regular La Demence parties are staged throughout the year including three
CAN: SFM Deploys EAW Adaptive For CosmoFEST Live by Thomas Richard - September 14, 2018 Canada’s premier musical instrument and gear exhibition, Cosmo MusicFEST & Expo (CosmoFEST), is also a celebration of live music that features performances by some of Canada’s top entertainers. Cosmo Music of Richmond Hill, ON teamed up with Canadian distributor SFM this year to deploy an Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) Adaptive
USA: dBTechnologies Powers Reggae on the Mountain Live by Thomas Richard - September 14, 2018 Tucked away from the hectic Los Angeles streets, a mere thirty miles outside of the city center, sit the rolling hills of Topanga Canyon, a scenic backdrop to the annual ‘Reggae on the Mountain’ festival. Founded nine years ago by the co-founders of Label 27, Brooks Ellis and Amit Gilad,
USA: L-Acoustics Rolls Louder at Hip-Hop’s Largest Music Festival Live by Thomas Richard - September 14, 2018September 14, 2018 Officially hailed as “biggest hip-hop and rap festival in the world,” Miami’s fourth-annual Rolling Loud drew a sold-out crowd of 70,000 enthusiastic fans over three days to hear L-Acoustics loudspeaker systems drop the bomb, bass-heavy beats of their favorite artists. Hosting performances by more than 140 of the genres’ top