Dushow supplies new, multifunctional CMY moving head for French rapper’s summer tour. Lighting design studio, LightLab, headed by lighting designer and art director Alexandre LeBrun, created a flexible and impactful lighting and stage design for French rapper Nekfeu’s summer tour based around mobile walls of light and used Elation Professional’s new multi-functional Smarty Hybrid CMY colour mixing moving head, supplied by Dushow, to realise the stunning look. Nekfeu toured across France this past summer, playing a dozen concerts including festivals such as Lollapalooza, Solidays, and Marsatac. LightLab, who also worked with Nekfeu and his S-Crew on last year’s “Zenith” tour,…
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Robert Juliat is thrilled to have been awarded a prestigious PLASA Award for Innovation for its SpotMe a creative tracking system that works in association with followspots. The Innovation Awards took place at the PLASA London show amid huge competition, with 47 entries and only 8 Awards at stake. SpotMe is Robert Juliat’s bespoke, 3D tracking system for followspots and the only performer tracking system to be driven via a real followspot. The SpotMe system communicates the X, Y, Z positions and the beam size parameters to the console. All parameters are then used by the console to control any automated…
For the past 4 years, the Lightpower Collection has toured worldwide with In the Eye of the Rock ’n’ Roll Hurricane, an exhibition which shows the body of work from acclaimed Rock ‘n’ Roll photographer, Neal Preston. In it are more than 70 of his iconic pictures: legendary album covers, views behind the scenes, moments that made history – the essence of Rock ’n’ Roll and concert touring that has dominated out industry since the late ‘60s. Neal Preston’s fine art prints are highly sought after by collectors worldwide, and Lightpower Collection donates all proceeds from the sale of prints…
Colours of Ostrava (COO / Colours), a popular Czech Republic music festival with 20 performance stages offering over 350 live music acts and plenty of other creative engagement across four days, attracting a population of 50,000 fans from all over Europe. Each year, the Robe moving light count on this landmark event rises, and 2018 saw the most Robe on site to date! The organisers also invested heavily in the production and the basic festival infrastructure this year, upping the ante on every level and every stage, reflecting the importance of Colours on the European summer events calendar. Site-wide technical production…
Ensuring the crowd a realistic listening experience were 2 key brands on the international pro audio scenario, both headquartered in Italy, Outline and Powersoft, whose specialists interacted with Cisko Ridolfi and Francesco Penolazzi, respectively Rockin’1000’s sound manager and sound designer. The main Outline PA, deployed round the band, which occupied a huge area of the pitch, comprised ten stacks (6 with 6 GTO C-12 and 4 with 5 GTO), plus 6 lines of subs in end-fire array (4 consisting of 4 DBS 18-2 and 2 made up of 4 LAB 21 HS). These (and the monitor speakers fielded) were supplied…
Olivier Award-winning The Play That Goes Wrong, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is embarking on a UK tour and White Light is supplying the lighting equipment. A Mischief Theatre Company production, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is produced by Kenny Wax and Stage Presence in association with Birmingham Rep and features a lighting design by David Howe. Howe commented: “Bank Robbery is a play where the situation really brings the comedy to life. You have an escaped convict set on capturing a priceless diamond from the bank and with him his eccentric sidekick, trickster girlfriend and the maintenance…
Dundee’s landmark new V&A museum beamed its way onto the world’s cultural map in September with a spectacular light, sound and pyrotechnics-focused opening ceremony. At the helm of the bold colour washes and intricate shapes was lighting designer John Rogers, armed with two Avolites Tiger Touch II consoles. Rogers was commissioned for the project by Jon Pugh of JMP Productions. The pair employed 30 Robe BMFL WashBeams in weatherproof domes and eight Prolights SunBLAST IP rated LED Strobes to achieve their design. These were rigged at ground level around the exterior of the V&A, pointed directly at the building’s unique…
For post-hardcore music fans the summer of 2018 was something special as two of the genres best, New York-based Quicksand and Glassjaw, teamed up on a 20-date, co-headlining tour across the U.S. JDI Productions, of Rhode Island served as lighting vendor for Quicksand with an Elation Professional lighting rig of DARTZ 360 LED moving heads, ACL 360 Bar LED battens and Cuepix Blinder WW2 keeping colorful pace with the band’s creatively intense sound. The July 7-August 3 tour was a high energy sampling of Quicksand classics mixed with numbers from the band’s latest album, “Interiors,” released late in 2017 and…
London’s Capital Sound Hire supplied sound systems to two of the 30+ stages at this year’s Creamfields event, including a substantial Outline GTO C-12 rig for the Generator Stage. One of the world’s premier dance music events, Creamfields 2018 featured a stellar lineup of superstar DJs and artists from the worlds of EDM, house, trance, D&B, and grime, entertaining crowds of up to 70,000 across the August Bank Holiday weekend. Headliners on the Generator Stage included Vini Vici, Danny Howard, Steve Angello, Duke Dumont, Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond and Alesso. Capital designed a system for the event using…
Each year, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway is transformed into an electronic dance music village made up of multiple live music stages, food and retail vendors, and more than 100,000 resident revellers per day– all there to celebrate a multitude of electronic music genres during the three-day Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC). For the eleventh year in a row, Las Vegas-based 3G Productions was on site to manage audio production for 3 of the largest stages in the Speedway – Cosmic Meadow, Kinetic Field, and Circuit Ground. Julio Valdez, senior systems engineer for 3G Productions, specified d&b audiotechnik sound reinforcement for…
When the ‘bombastic’ elrow Town festival landed in East London’s Olympic Park it had one main aim: to take revellers on a psychedelic trip through the Swinging 60s to Latin Samba. Challenged with serving up the eye-curdling visual effects was Philip Mayer of GaiaNova, using Avolites Ai R8 servers. Main stage photos went viral, as attendees shared photos of its kaleidoscopic, swirling colours and enthusiastic performers kitted out in tie-dye clobber on social media. Headliners included Fatboy Slim and Idris Elba, as the up-for-it crowd danced to some of the best house and leftfield tracks around. The Ai R8 server…
European stage automation specialist VisionLite invested in a new Kinesys Apex hoist system – comprising 21 VisionLite Apex motors – plus Kinesys K2 control to help facilitate its busy summer work schedule. The new VisionLite Apex products went straight out on the Resistance summer season in Ibiza where they helped create a spectacular production design for the popular club experience. Resistance embraced its underground roots in curating a serious line-up of superlative techno, led by iconic artists like Carl Cox and Sasha & John Digweed in the 10,000 capacity Privilege venue, running for nine incendiary events over the summer. The Resistance creative…
German rental company TSE supplied lighting and sound for Lollapalooza’s Mainstage 1, complete with a full Robe moving light rig with over 100 fixtures including Robe BMFLs, Spiiders, Pointes and MegaPointes. For the Weeknd’s Saturday night headlining set, they boosted the Robe count with a specials package of another 174 Robes – almost double the amount of lights in the production rig – part of an eye-catching design by LeRoy Bennett which was overseen and operated by Steven Mills. Heading up the 35-person TSE team on site was Marcel Kuch. The company has supplied lighting and audio to the main…
Revelation Productions, a Massachusetts-based corporate A/V and installed sound production house, opened its doors 22 years ago with Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) loudspeakers as its mainstay product. Recently the company reinvested in EAW with the acquisition of 20 EAW RADIUS RSX208L loudspeakers, which are bringing the same value and sound quality to their customers as their first EAW system did years ago. “We were very excited to add RADIUS systems to our inventory – they have terrific features and offer a tremendous value to our customers, which is very important to us,” explained Anthony D’ Elia, president and executive producer…
How did you initially get into touring production? “When I was 20-years-old. I had just come out of Manchester City College having completed my National Diploma in music technology. A friend of the family told me to send my CV to Jake Berry [Production Manager]. I sent him my info, convinced that nothing would come out of it, as he looked after The Rolling Stones and U2. But to my surprise, he replied saying he would keep me in mind for future jobs. But things were quiet as 9/11 had just happened and a lot of tours had been cancelled.…
25 Years after it was first established, Music Bank unveils its brand-new facility in West London. TPi had a behind the scenes tour of the impressive new rehearsal venue during the glitzy launch event, which saw owner Trevor Horn perform some of his career highlights live… https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpisep18_digitallr/100 Photos: Music Bank www.musicbank.org
The summer of 2018 has seen some of the world’s biggest acts visit the UK’s stadiums, arenas and festivals, but none have gone quite as big on the weird and wacky side of technical production as California’s own Katy Perry. TPi’s Ste Durham was at Manchester Arena to meet the 100-strong crew behind this huge undertaking… https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpisep18_digitallr/62 Photos: Andrew Benge www.silent-house.com www.clairglobal.com www.rdtouring.com www.dasdesignworks.com www.flixfx.com www.backlinefab.com www.fivepointsproductionservices.com www.airworksinflatables.com www.landmarkcreations.com www.sostouring.com
The latest Roger Waters’ touring spectacular, Us + Them, – named after the 1973 Pink Floyd song that featured on The Dark Side of the Moon – played in arenas around the globe before evolving into a huge outdoor production, which came to monumental fruition in Italy. TPi’s Kel Murray visits Rome’s Circo Massimo for the technically ambitious, theatrical gig, which was staged in monumentally historic grounds… https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpisep18_digitallr/36 Photos: TPi, Sean Evans and Kate Ixor. www.rogerwaters.com www.deadskinboy.com www.wonder.co.uk www.taittowers.com www.premieraviation.com www.airworksinflatables.com www.eventionsproductions.com www.clairglobal.com www.britanniarow.com www.negearth.com www.upstaging.com www.beatthestreet.net www.transamtrucking.com www.wicreations.com www.vyv.ca
