Morgan Wallen’s current One Night at a Time stadium tour reflects his meteoric rise with an expanded production design by Zac Coren that includes Elation Proteus luminaires. Being an outdoor stadium tour, IP-rated lighting fixtures were a must and Coren turned to three fixtures in the proven Proteus series Proteus Rayzor Blade linear FX bars, Proteus Hybrid moving heads, and Proteus Rayzor 760 LED wash effects. Event production company Premier Global Production out of Nashville serves as lighting vendor for the North American outing. Coren has been with Wallen for nearly five years and says the current stadium tour is the…
Author: Alicia Pollitt
Norwegian band, Postgirobygget embarked on a summer tour, performing at festivals and venues in front of audiences ranging from 2000 to 18,000 people. Postgirobygget’s 28-date Summer 2023 tour has set and lighting design by Petter Nilssen of LiteNordic, MDG’s exclusive distributor for Norway. Nilssen chose a single MDG Me2 fog generator as his source of fog and haze for the duration of the tour, complete with MDG’s digital theFAN. “I always chose to tour with an MDG machine,” stated Nilssen. “I believe if you take your own lighting rig on tour, it’s equally as important to bring your own fog/haze…
Sam Fender played two homecoming shows at St. James’ Park in Newcastle with lighting designed by Sam Tozer and equipment supplied by Adlib including 11 Robe FORTES running on five RoboSpot systems. Tozer has been working with Fender since he re-started after the pandemic in 2021. Working alongside him was Lighting Director Luke Avery, who was heavily involved in the design process, together with Set Designer Flora Harvey. Video content was created by UDC. Tozer’s overall vision for these shows was to make the lighting look epic, large scale and ‘industrial strength’ to cover the dynamic range of Fender’s music.…
Lighting Designer, Joel Reiff has tapped 28 Ayrton Domino Profiles as his “workhorse” fixture for Counting Crows’ 56-date summer tour across the US, which he programmed on a grandMA3 console. The band kicked off their Banshee Season Tour in June in Omaha and will wrap with a show at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado on 25 September. Upstaging provided the Dominos and grandMA3 consoles for the tour. “I like to emphasise the music in my lighting design and not take the audience’s eyes away from what the band is doing on stage and what they’re hearing. As my spot…
At this year’s PLASA Show, OutBoard will preview the latest product innovations from the TiMax family of immersive audio and showcontrol products. OutBoard will showcase new software enhancements to TiMax2 SoundHub, including audio and workflow previews of their groundbreaking new spatial production reverb addition. Also at PLASA will be the TiMax TrackerD4 Precision Stagetracking system, with newly refined error correction filtering as a must-see update. Further innovations from the OutBoard stable can be seen on other stands at this year’s show. AC Rigging on Stand G53 will represent LVx & DVx hoist controllers, showing the new LV2 CASE portable product…
As a promising resurgence of festivals take place across the UK this summer, economic activity in host towns is rising. Recent figures suggest revenue at many gigs and festivals in Britain has returned to pre-pandemic levels and ticket purchasing behaviours amongst music fans have positively changed following an unsure environment brought about by the pandemic. From Glastonbury to BlackFest, Boardmasters to Reading and Leeds Festival, there is something for all music fans, supporting homegrown and grassroot bands and artists, and not forgetting the headline acts. A key testament was Burna Boy’s sell-out show this summer at the London Stadium as…
HOLOPLOT has expanded its US presence with the appointment of James Bobel as Sales Manager for North America. With decades of sales and technical experience, Bobel will be responsible for fostering relationships with US customers across all business sectors and identifying new markets which can benefit from HOLOPLOT’s product series as well as upcoming products in the company’s pipeline. “I’ve worked in the Professional Audio industry over the past two decades for integrators, and manufacturers. I have a genuine appreciation and passion for technology, and the opportunity to join HOLOPLOT was impossible to pass up,” Bobel commented. Growing up in…
Born at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2022, House of Oz featured a diverse programme spanning genres and generations, and in its inaugural year, won an award for Best Fringe Venue. For the 2023 event, Skywalker Gibbon, a giant inflatable gibbon was designed by Melbourne visual artist Lisa Roet. The venue, a 19th century church and Grade B listed building, required a sensitive solution to allow for the 20m by 6m artwork to be displayed safely, with Adrian Bell, Executive Producer of Blu Fire, calling upon Unusual Rigging to come up with an answer. “As a listed building, it was…
Blackmagic Design has announced that Argentinian broadcast and live streaming company Otra Vuelta Broadcasting relied on Blackmagic URSA Broadcast G2 cameras and an ATEM Constellation 8K live production switcher to produce a 360 degree experience at DJ Bizarrap’s three sold-out concerts at the historic Hipódromo Argentino de Palermo in Buenos Aires. The three-day production and live stream featured a unique stage setup with screens encompassing it, offering the audience and viewers at home a 360 degree immersive experience. 23 cameras were used to help achieve this, with Otra Vuelta Broadcasting relying on 16 Blackmagic Design cameras, including six URSA Broadcast…
Prolights fixtures played a role in Dekada by the Albanian singer Elvana Gjata. Contributing to the event was ASLV Albania working in collaboration with Kuadr Events, it integrated 350 cutting-edge Prolights fixtures, creating a breathtaking stage setup utilising 30 PanoramaIP Spot, 30 PanoramaIP AirBeam, 60 UNICO, 50 Jade lights and 40 Stark 400. Alongside this is also 24 Sunrise 2IP, 40 SunRise 4, 40 Lumipix 15IP, 12 EclFresnel TW, 12 LumiPar 12IP and 16 Razor 440. The ASLV Team commented: “The Prolights fixtures truly exceeded our expectations at Elvana Gjata’s Dekada concert. Their cutting-edge technology and versatility allowed us to create…
Premier live event production company, White Tie Productions, purchased 120 Alfalite Litepix Series panels. Headquartered in Phoenix, with a second office in Orlando, White Tie will have 60 panels based in each location. The screens will be shipped to customers throughout the U.S. White Tie specialises in creating large-scale events for non-profit and corporate associations. Company President Ross Snyder wanted his customers to have the best available video wall technology. Synder commented: “When you see an Alfalite wall in person, it’s unique. These panels have an almost 180-degree, crystal-clear viewing angle, which is unlike any other LED.” When not being…
Oxford’s Event Production Services have been a fixture at Truck Festival for the past 15 years, in 2023 providing sound and lighting for five of the eight stages. For the second year running sound systems in these spaces were entirely based around NEXO products, from the GEO, P+ and ID series, with control surfaces from Yamaha. Highlights included This Feeling and Rockin’ Chair stages, which both utilised NEXO GEO M1210 and MSUB18 with cardioid subwoofers; and The Tap Room, with system of NEXO GEO M620 and MSUB18. All systems were ground stacked but still offered coverage and audio level across…
CS Audio, independent sound production company, have invested in Outline’s unique Newton FPGA processor, supplied by UK distributor CUK Audio. Owner Paul Hatt commented: “The unit had been on my radar for a while thanks to the industry ‘buzz’ it has generated. It quickly became obvious that it was way ahead of any comparable product and ideal for our needs. Its ease of use, dual redundant PSUs and connectivity options, all in such a compact package, made it a very simple decision to invest.” Hatt continued: “It has become our go to choice for our FOH drive rack, using Dante…
Backup has announced Koy Neminathan as a new trustee of the organisation and head of its Ambassador Programme. Neminathan, Business Development Director at Elation Professional and PLASA Manufacturer’s representative, is no stranger to the demands and pressures of the live entertainment industry. During the pandemic, Neminathan worked with the #WeMakeEvents campaign: “I felt like helping others was what had to be done, it was such an important thing for me,” commented Neminathan. “You’ve got to help those who can’t always help themselves and, particularly during the pandemic, I felt it was imperative to do what I could to support our…
FlexPoint joins TORUS and Wavefront Precision for the third leg of Sigur Rós’ world tour Icelandic rock band, Sigur Rós recently embarked on a two-and-a-half-week tour of North America, complete with a 41-piece orchestra. It marks the third phase of support from their audio rental company 22live, who earlier covered their 2022 world shows, followed by European summer dates and now tour dates in the United States and Canada. Each wave of dates saw progressive iterations of Martin Audio sound reinforcement, culminating in monitor engineer Throstur Albertsson recently changing his monitor set-up for XE500 wedges, to complement their IEM’s, and…
Lighting Designer Anthony Hazelden gives an inside view of the tour design behind Burna Boy’s sold-out London and New York stadium shows and CHAUVET Professional fixtures’ role in achieving it. www.chauvetprofessional.com
The ADJ Group sadly say goodbye to valued colleague and treasured friend, Timothy (Tim) P. Healy. Having worked with ADJ for over 20 years as a Manufacturer’s Sales Representative on the East Coast, he was an integral part of the ADJ family and played a significant role in the company’s growth. Having recently retired, Tim sadly passed away on July 21, 2023, at his home, aged 66. Born 12 December 1956, in Arlington, VA. He spent his entire working life in sales, representing a wide variety of consumer electronics and entertainment technology brands. In the ‘90s he went into business…
The mood ring is utilised as a metaphor for Matchbox Twenty’s Slow Dream Tour which concluded its 54-show run at Chicago’s Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre. The Playground Design Studio created the mood ring image with a large inflatable semi-circle that arches over the upstage deck and is backed by a video wall. Accenting the 3D quality of this “ring” is a collection of lighting fixtures, including the CHAUVET Professional Maverick Force 2 Profile, arranged along angled stage left and stage right horizontal truss structures. “Things that felt important to us were that the show feel minimalist and architectural. It had to…
