Some unique lighting razzmatazz has been added to the near 20,000-capacity Rocket Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, with the world’s first installation of GLP’s monstrous MAD MAXX CW LED fat-beam searchlights. This will give the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team and Cleveland Monsters ice hockey team, who share the facility, a unique and dynamic rock’n’roll-style environment to enhance the matchday...
Choosing the Glastonbury Festival for their only live performance of the year, Friday headline band The 1975 relied heavily on their long-standing production designer Tobias Rylander and his team, to bring something special out of the iconic Pyramid stage by way of high-octane visual impact. Matty Healy (L) lead singer of British band The 1975 performs on the Pyramid stage during the third day of...
At the beginning of 2025, Patrick Rabus was tasked with handling the production design for a tour by Tim Kamrad, a young pop artist who is increasingly attracting attention with his electronic sounds and strong stage presence. For almost the first month, Kamrad toured medium-sized venues in Germany. “The venues were deliberately kept intimate, but Tim’s presence has grown considerably since then –...
The Beatsteaks, one of Germany’s most successful punk rock bands, have been out on their Please tour, in support of the album of the same name, since spring 2024. This tour has continued in 2025. Lighting designer Joanna Ossolinska, who has worked with the band for several years, developed a completely new lighting concept for the tour – with some deliberate references to previous tours: The...
The Ehrlich Brothers have been delighting a wide audience with their spectacular live shows for over a decade. Their new production, Diamonds, premiered in mid-November in Dortmund’s Westfalenhalle before visiting the largest arenas in Germany, where they have been presenting the best of their most popular illusions. With the help of exceptional lighting and stage technology, the successful...
GLP’s latest powerful strobe/wash hybrid, the JDC Burst 1, made the most auspicious of debuts, when 96 of the compact fixtures were deployed at London’s Royal Albert Hall by lighting designer Jelle Stoffels – the first deployment in the UK. With its segmented, controllable white strobe line – substantially brighter than its forbear, the JDC1 – the JDC Burst 1 delivers unparalleled punch and...
For Wincent Weiss’s arena tour in March 2025, the renowned design studio ST. ROBO developed a fully integrated show design – including set, lighting and content, as well as IMAG and creative direction. The design concept and implementation were developed in close collaboration within an interdisciplinary team dedicated to developing a new visual language for the artist. The focus was on emotional...
GLP has confirmed MDR Lighting as its new distributor in New Zealand, effective 1st May. 100% New Zealand owned, MDR Lighting has had a strong presence in the entertainment and production industry for more than 20 years and represents a top tier list of brands. Says managing director Brodie Noon: “Due to our position in the New Zealand market, as well as our close working relationship with...
Pitbull, the Grammy Award-winning American rapper, singer, actor and entrepreneur, recently wowed audiences at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas resort hotel, picking up incredible reviews. The task of adapting his recent Party After Dark tour for a show renamed Vegas After Dark fell to his long-term creatives, production manager Victor Martinez and creative director Yamil Charif (of YC3 Design). Charif...
With an eminent history dating back almost 100 years, Proctors is a 2,646-cap. theatre based in Schenectady, upstate New York. It had largely fallen into disrepair when the city took over ownership in 1977 and initially earmarked to be torn down, before it was saved – thanks to its historic status – by the National Park Service, which offered to buy it for $1 and run it as a nonprofit. In 2005...