GLOBAL: Marillion gets animated with the Claypaky Scenius Spot Live by Thomas Richard - July 2, 2018 British progressive rock pioneers Marillion are currently delighting fans with their hit world tour, which marks over three decades of the band's music. A celebration of musical storytelling, the show is enhanced by a theatrical lightscape created by the band's long-term lighting designer Yenz Nyholm, who selected the Claypaky Scenius
GBR: Bullet For My Valentine takes on festival season with dLive Live by Thomas Richard - July 2, 2018 Welsh heavy-metal giants, Bullet For My Valentine, have recently embarked on their summer trek across the UK and Europe, supported by two Allen & Heath dLive S Class systems. Supplied by SSE Audio, the band’s set-up includes two S5000 surfaces, each paired with its own DM64 MixRack, covering FOH and monitors,
ZAF: Robe is Mega Beautiful Live by Thomas Richard - July 2, 2018 Joshua Cutts is someone who knows how to make things – stages, sets people – look beautiful, and 2018 was the fourth time he has lit the Miss South Africa beauty pageant event, which this year selected the country’s delegates for the two highest profile global beauty contests - Miss
AUS: TDC shines at Vivid Sydney 2018 Live by Thomas Richard - June 14, 2018 Australian entertainment technology company TDC – Technical Direction Company – has been providing large scale projection mapping and technology for this year’s Vivid Sydney, which takes place over 23 nights from 25 May – 16 June. Vivid Sydney is the world’s largest festival of light, music and ideas. It takes place
USA: Robe Gets Closer to Kane Brown Live by Thomas Richard - June 5, 2018 Talented American country music singer, songwriter and rising star Kane Brown is on the road opening for Chris Young’s ‘Losing Sleep’ tour, and lighting designer Andrew James wanted a practical and spectacular specials rig to give the young artist’s set full impact. He turned to Robe moving lights - 18 x
USA: CHAUVET Professional Hits Broadway With Michael Stiller’s Rocktopia Design Live by Thomas Richard - May 22, 2018 Unlike all but a handful of other venues in Manhattan’s famed theatre district, the Broadway Theatre is actually located on Broadway. This is far from the only thing that stands out about this big (by Broadway standards) 1760-seat theatre. Throughout its 94-year history, it has housed trailblazing productions, including the
GBR: disguise gx 2 go global for Metallica’s 2018 WorldWired Tour Live by Thomas Richard - May 22, 2018 disguise gx 2 media servers are at the heart of Metallica's current WorldWired Tour where they have been used to sketch ideas, preview and run the dynamic show. The gx 2's integration with Notch plays a key role in the production, being extensively used for IMAG, post and real-time effects,
USA: HES SolaHyBeams Provide Three-in-One Lights for G3 World Tour Live by Thomas Richard - May 18, 2018 The G3 2018 world tour needed three different designs for its three distinctive guitarists. Production designer/lighting designer Alastair Watson – who is also the production manager – had a tight budget and a one-truck space constraint. One rig had to do it all. So he specified 16 High End Systems
MEX: PR Lighting Illuminates Mexico’s 8th International Jazz Festival Live by Thomas Richard - May 16, 2018 As is the tradition each year, Musbi AC (Music in the Bicentennial A.C), combined with the Ministry of Culture of the Mexican Federal Government, Hermes Music Foundation, Performers of Mexico and the Single Union of Music Workers, to stage the International Jazz Festival. Now in its 8th edition, it took
ZAF: grandMA2 performs at Annual South African Film & Television Awards Live by Thomas Richard - May 16, 2018 Celebrating quality, excellence and talent, the 12th Annual South African Film & Television Awards was hosted at Sun City’s Superbowl on 24th March with a further 2.3 million viewers tuning in to watch the live SABC televised production. EPH Productions were appointed by ATTV to supply the full technical and