THG has produced a shimmering glass sculpture environment, described as a ‘kinetic pavilion’ and crafted from more than 380,000 precision-cut Bohemian crystals, at the Galaxy Macau hotel and casino in Macau. Further highlighting this centerpiece are 24 GLP impression X4 Bar 20 wash lights, all DMX controlled, which color ash the crystal dome. The expansive project was a collaborative effort...
When she set out to design George Ezra’s 2022 arena and festival lighting rig, production designer Cate Carter didn’t need to look much further than the GLP catalog to achieve the dynamic she was seeking. The LD first added Ezra to her enviable portfolio of clients back in 2019 – then as part of the Bryte Design collective – before being re-engaged, this time as an independent, to help promote...
GLP is excited to announce that Miles Dudgeon has been appointed as the company’s new sales manager looking after customers east of the Mississippi River. Miles has spent many years in the industry, initially studying lighting design in college and starting out as a lighting operator. Miles has previously worked at GLP US in the ‘before times’ and now rejoins the company working with an increased...
The German TV version of I Can See Your Voice ran under a new name, Show Us Your Voice ( Zeig Uns Deine Stimme), for its third season on RTL. The show format pits talented singers against full-playback vocal imposters, with a rating duo – aided by a rotating cast of celebrities – tasked with figuring out who can really sing and who’s just pretending. David Kreileman and Tim Franken, as cameraman...
Between the months of May and September, Berlin band SEEED were busy playing open-air and festival dates in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (including eight concerts in their home town alone). And wherever the 14-piece band performs, a good atmosphere is assured. LD Timo Martens has been with the band for 22 years, and both musicians and crew are like family to him. On the other hand, 16 GLP...
When lighting and set designer Morgan Evans was about to embark on his first tour with Jessie J, he chose a floor package largely based around GLP’s versatile impression FR10 Bar, each meter-long batten containing 10 powerful 60 W RGBW LED sources. As a design associate to celebrated LD Tim Routledge for the past two years, Evans is a product of the BRIT School – as, coincidentally, is Jessie J...
The German band Die Ärzte (aka the ‘Best Band in the World’) is one of many artists who made creative use of the forced pandemic break. After the album Hell, released in October 2020, the cult Berlin band released an album with the contrasting title Dunkel just under a year later. The associated tour, Buffalo Bill in Rome, is currently running, for which production designer Bertil Mark uses 21 of...
Every second year, veteran American rock band 311 celebrates 11 March (3/11) with a massive party-style celebration concert for fans over two nights at the Park Theater, Las Vegas (Park MGM). And the pressure is on LD Bobby Grey, of Notan Creative (and the entire production team), to exceed the excitement of the previous event in this biennial calendar. “We went into this wondering how we could...
When GLP gave a world premiere to the impression X5 at this year’s Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, it established the new lime chip – which was quickly revered by LDs everywhere. An accompanying campaign entitled Our Lime makes the Difference helped reinforce the message about the expanded color palette. And, of course, the GLP UK team (hereafter known as the Limeys) – never ones to miss an...
When Austrian hip-hop artist and producer RAF Camora released his album Zenith in 2019, he announced it would be his last. But then the album Zukunft was released two years later, just a few months before the artist went one better with Zukunft II. This was more than reason enough to follow up with a tour through Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Lighting designer Felix Seidel accompanied the...