BottleRock Festival 2019 Doubles down with VUE Live by Thomas Richard - July 19, 2019 Billed as the “first taste of summer,” the 7th annual BottleRock Festival once again sold out drawing some 120,000 attendees by mixing music with the best of Napa food, wine, and beer. And VUE Rental Network Partner, Delicate Productions, was there — for the 7th consecutive year — to provide
Karen O and Danger Mouse Rely on Meyer Sound for Total Immersion Install by Thomas Richard - July 15, 2019 For four days in late April, more than 3,500 visitors experienced a 35-minute art installation called “An Encounter with Lux Prima.” (watch) Conceived by Karen O and Danger Mouse as an immersive introduction to their new album collaboration, the audacious event — 16 sessions in all — was held at
Squeek Lights and Elation Team Up for Chon Summer Tour Live by Thomas Richard - July 15, 2019 Squeek Lights has had their busiest summer ever supplying state-of-the-art lighting packages for tours across the U.S. An especially busy June had the New York-based rental house hopping as they supplied and serviced several acts, including an outing by rock instrumentalists Chon, who toured with a rig of Elation DARTZ
Bellamy Brothers Increase Danley Rig with New Monitors Live by Thomas Richard - July 15, 2019 With over fifty charting hits, over fifty albums, over fifty years in the business, and a firmly-anchored classic in “Let Your Love Flow,” The Bellamy Brothers are a living example of every musician’s dream. These days, the brothers and their band play around 150 shows a year and are about to
Vari-Lite Profiles impress at Cleveland Orchestra Live by Thomas Richard - July 15, 2019 The compact, feature-rich VL2600 Profile luminaire from Vari-Lite, a Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) entertainment lighting brand, met some crucial needs for lighting designer Alexander V. Nichols in his design for a production of Richard Strauss’s comic opera, Ariadne auf Naxos, by the renowned Cleveland Orchestra. As one of the USA’s older concert
The Empire Strips Back in America Live by Thomas Richard - July 2, 2019 Hugely successful Australian burlesque Star Wars parody “The Empire Strips Back” has just completed its most extensive North American tour to date, also visiting Canada for the first time, complete with a suitably boisterous lightshow designed by Peter Rubie, featuring 30 x Robe Spiider LED wash beams as the core
Elite Multimedia Productions jumps in the ring with Impact Wrestling Live by Thomas Richard - July 1, 2019 Featuring captivating characters and adrenaline-pumping action, Impact Wrestling is a 2-hour weekly television production touring to packed houses across North America. In an environment where the action takes place both in and out of the ring, the production team must be able to create an expansive design in a number
Magical Sound by DAS Audio for Criss Angel´s MINDFREAK Live by Thomas Richard - July 1, 2019 DAS Audio worked with mind-blowing producer, director, and artist Criss Angel - and his sound designer Aaron Beck - to design a state-of-the-art audio system for the brand-new illusion spectacular CRISS ANGEL MINDFREAK at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino Las Vegas. The aim of the system design was to provide an
ALLEN & HEATH PERFORM AT COACHELLAWITH BILLIE EILISH AND KANYE WEST Live by Thomas Richard - June 21, 2019 Kanye West’s innovative Sunday Service atop ‘The Mountain’ at Coachella 2019, supported by an Allen & Heath dLive C3500 Digital Mixing System and over 20 ME-1 Personal Monitor Mixers Celebrated as a premier cultural event and arguably the most well-known music festival in the world, Coachella 2019 did not disappoint.
“Outstanding” Vari-Lite VLZ Profile meets every challenge for Evita Live by Thomas Richard - June 21, 2019 Plan B Entertainment’s US touring production of Evita, with lighting design by Chad Bonaker. © Plan B Entertainment - Will Page Photography The VLZ Profile luminaire, from Vari-Lite’s latest generation of LED moving head fixtures, has once again proven its outstanding stage lighting credentials, this time on Plan B Entertainment’s US