British electronic music duo Chase & Status took to the road this fall on their largest tour to date with a video-led design that features Martin Professional EC Series LED video panels including the new EC-10, a high performance, 10 mm pixel pitch LED display panel. Lighting, set and video designer for the “No More Idols” tour is Neil Carson of Enhance Production Ltd. <...
LD and long-time Jands Vista advocate, Rob Sinclair specified a Vista S1 console with two M1 wings to run lighting for Grammy Award-winning UK singer-songwriter Adele's recent 2011 international tour.
The system ran Jands' next generation Vista v2 software, and on some sections of the tour operating duties were taken on by John Barker while Sinclair fulfilled othe...
MONTREAL — In the fall of 2009 Trizart Alliance, arena and theatre consultant, was presented with an immense challenge by the General Manager of Evenko, Jacques Aubé, and Live Nation Global Touring’s CEO Arthur Fogel: Find an alternative to the inoperable Olympic Stadium for a one night U2 performance in Montréal, Canada in July 2010. Given the scale of the show and...
When it came time for rock legend Paul McCartney to acquire a new lighting rig for his many appearances from coast to coast, lighting designer Roy Bennett selected an array of Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures controlled by a grandMA console. Both product lines are represented in North America by A.C.T Lighting. ...
Following the energy-efficient formula first implemented at the Roskilde Festival in 2009, the low consumption of GLP's impression LED range was again in harmony with the "Green Footsteps" program of Denmark's largest music festival - on a vastly increased scale.
Production substantially ramped up the number of GLP LED fixtures, so that this year the main Orange ...
The collapse in high winds of a temporary concert stage at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday claimed five lives and left almost 50 injured, according to news reports. An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the collapse began on Sunday, and its findings will be watched with great interest by the event production industry.
After traveling through Australia and Japan, Katy Perry has kicked off the North American leg of her California Dreams Tour. The show, which you can read about in the August issue of Lighting&Sound America, has everything, including dancing gingerbread men, whipped cream, and even machines blowing candy cotton scent into the audience.
The Styx/Yes 2011 summer tour is entertaining US audiences with their iconic hits. Embellishing those legendary sounds behind the bands is a wall of creative content displayed on a new high resolution LED video screen supplied by Pete's Big TVs.
"It is a nice lighting rig, but the LED screen is visually the whole show," said Pete's Big TVs' president, Peter Daniel. ...
The 2011 Slager Festival was staged in the Expo Hall in Kortrijk, Belgium with lighting designed by Pieter Vermeersch, based around 24 x Robe ROBIN 600 Spots, 16 x ColorWash 575E ATs and 4 x ColorSpot 1200E ATs which was supplied by 4U-Renting based in Zwevegem.
The very popular one day festival features Flemish folk music from multiple artists attended by 4000 people.
“A video screen doesn't need to be any more complicated than lighting fixtures. Yet time and time again I find other systems insanely complex.â€
So stated Tinie Tempah Lighting Director Dave Cohen who recently made a big impact using Martin Professional’s user-friendly EC-20™ LED panels as a backdrop video wall on Brit Award winne...
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