GLP Lights the Stage for Avicii Tribute Concert Live by Thomas Richard - January 23, 2020 The life of Swedish DJ, songwriter and producer, Tim Bergling (better known as Avicii) who died so tragically back in April 2018, was honoured recently with a tribute concert in Stockholm. Nearly 60,000 fans turned up at the Friends Arena to pay their respects—an all-time Stockholm record for a single
MDG Haze the Clear Winner for Transmission Festival 2019 Live by Thomas Richard - January 23, 2020 © Petr Klapper Transmission is Europe's, and possibly the world's, most spectacular trance music festival with a legion of loyal fans who return year on year. As usual, the 2019 event was enhanced by haze from MDG generators which showcased the spectacular lighting and laser shows that accompanied the artists. Transmission is
Robe Dreams Big at Puy du Fou España Live by Thomas Richard - January 21, 2020 Award-winning independent French theme park, Puy du Fou, unveiled its first venture in Toledo Spain with an epic night-time immersive spectacular “El Sueño de Toledo” (The Dream of Toledo), creatively directed by Nicolas de Villiers and the team from Puy de Fou with lighting designed by Koert Vermeulen from Belgian
GLP Illuminates Jägermeister’s Night Embassy in Berlin Install by Thomas Richard - January 17, 2020 Berlin's nightlife is known to be colourful and wild. But rising rents and increasingly stringent requirements are causing the creative spaces in the German capital to shrink. From the beginning of September to mid-December 2019, Mast-Jägermeister SE, manufacturer of the internationally known herbal liqueur of the same name, made a breakthrough
Yamaha RIVAGE PM7 Is The Progressive Solution For Haken Live by Thomas Richard - January 16, 2020 Photo credit: Stephen Schmidt Far from being an ‘uncool relic from the 1970s’, nowadays progressive rock has a sizeable following and is becoming more popular. There are a number of artists following the likes of Muse and Dream Theater into the mainstream, none more so than Haken - a multinational six-piece
Ukrainian popstar turns to Quantum for Russian stadium gig Live by Thomas Richard - January 16, 2020 Ukrainian popstar, LOBODA, recently visited Moscow’s new US$1.5 billion VTB Arena stadium as part of her latest European tour, upgrading to DiGiCo’s premium SD7 Quantum console to create studio quality sound for the 100 channel orchestra-based production. Known by the stage name LOBODA, Svitlana Serhiivna Loboda first came into public view
Claypaky Sharpy Plus Fixtures Enhance “Jack and the Beanstalk” Uncategorized by Thomas Richard - January 16, 2020 For the past seventeen years, British Lighting Designer Graham McLusky has made his way to South Africa to light the annual pantomime, or “panto,” a musical comedy family stage show based on a fairy tale or nursery rhyme and produced during the holidays. This season “Jack and the Beanstalk” was presented
Mason Delman lights Legally Blonde with Elation Artiste Picasso Install by Thomas Richard - January 16, 2020 Lighting designer Mason Delman lit an NYU Tisch School of the Arts production of Legally Blonde with Elation Artiste Picasso moving heads and praised the multi-functionality and responsiveness of the high-performance LED profile luminaire. 4Wall Entertainment in New York, with Al Ridella as key account manager, provided 10 Artiste Picasso fixtures
Yamaha Mixing Systems Chosen For Rock In Rio 2019 Live by Thomas Richard - January 16, 2020 Every year Rock In Rio attracts the cream of the world’s international rock acts, performing alongside artists from Latin America, Spain and Portugal. The 2019 event saw the festival held over seven days at Rio de Janeiro’s Barra Olympic Park, attracting an audience of 100,000 each day. Yamaha digital mixing
KVANT AND PR LIGHTING ENSURE BRATISLAVA’S NEW YEAR OPENS IN STYLE Live by Thomas Richard - January 15, 2020 Bratislava’s new year celebrations, held in the heart of the Slovakian capital at the Rázusovo nábrežie (the banks of the River Danube) were brought to life by a spectacular lightshow masterminded by Kvant Show Production. The laser specialists, who are also PR Lighting’s distributor for Germany, Czech Republic and Slovakia, have
