RST (Resources Stage Technologies), an events solutions company based in Dubai, used an array of 260 Claypaky HY B-EYE K25 washes, Mini-B LED moving lights, Xtylos Aqua, Sharpy X Frame hybrid fixtures and Sharpy Plus Aqua moving heads for a tribute to late Egyptian composer Mohamed El-Mougy at Abu Bakr Salem Stage, an outdoor venue in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia. El-Mougy, known as the Godfather of...
Canada-based Lighting Designer Alex Mungal of Alien Lites selected Claypaky Xtylos fixtures for the European tour of American rock band A Day To Remember (ADTR), which wrapped at the end of February in Antwerp, Belgium. Mungal designed and programmed the show for ADTR, which was on tour with Bring me the Horizon and Static Dress. The band has had a busy run lately with the month-long European tour...
Vasco Rossi decided to delight his countless fans again in 2023 with a short concert tour that crisscrossed Italy. As always, Giovanni Pinna was in charge of lighting, and made extensive use of Claypaky fixtures. “The set design changed radically this year," Pinna told us. “We mainly used 70-by-26-metre stages based around a triangle: there were three triangles of automated battens of different...
Claypaky has announced the appointment of Carmen Savarese as our new Senior Area Manager and Business Development Manager for North America. Carmen has more than 15 years of worldwide experience in the entertainment industry, having held several posts, such as Business Development Manager, International Sales Director, VP of Sales and Marketing, and Managing Director, in various companies in the...
It was hard to beat the magnitude of the star power at the 2023 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, but one dozen innovative Claypaky Skylos seachlights held their own against headlining acts on the Pyramid Stage, including the UK’s last live touring performance of Sir Elton John. Placed on the ground and producing super-concentrated beams of lights, the Skylos searchlights...
A wide array of Claypaky fixtures were selected for French rapper SDM’s recent performance at the famed Olympia concert hall in Paris. Lighting Designer Guillaume Dubot of Lumiverse Design chose 32 Claypaky Sharpy X Frames, 16 HY B-EYE K10s and 12 Mythos2 for the show. SDM is currently on the road in France and Switzerland for his “ Liens du 100” tour in support of his eponymous album released...
The new luxury hotel and resort Atlantis The Royal launched in Dubai with a grand opening party with the theme of “This Is it” and a guest list of celebrities, royalty, government ministers, travel influencers and global media. Mark Butts, Founder of Pasadena, California-based Preset Productions, chose 289 Claypaky Xtylos to outline the rooftops of the property and 35 Claypaky Scenius to act as...
Hungarian pop-rock band the Bagossy Brothers Company marked their tenth anniversary with a spectacular concert at Budapest’s MVM Dome recently where a dynamic complement of Claypaky lighting fixtures helped deliver an unforgettable experience to a crowd of some 20,000 fans. The band’s Lighting Designer Ádám Pintér selected Claypaky Sharpy Plus, Sharpy Plus Aqua, Sharpy, A.leda B-EYE K20 and HY B...
British rock band Muse has hit the road with its North American tour, “ Will of the People,” on which more than 150 Claypaky Xtylos enhance the band’s post-apocalyptic staging non-stop. The tour is named for the band’s most recent ninth studio album, which gave Muse its seventh consecutive No. 1 on the UK albums chart and topped Billboard’s Alternative and Rock Albums tallies. The “Will of the...
The 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) recently concluded in England’s 11,000-seat Liverpool Arena where Sweden took top honors with the song, “ Tattoo”. Tim Routledge, Lighting Designer for the show, utilized a large complement of 194 x Claypaky Sharpy-X-Frames, 126 x Scenius Unicos, 40 x Hy B-EYE K25s, 12 x Sharpy Plus Aqua and 12 x ReflectXions to illuminate the set, whose...