2019 is a landmark year for GLP, as 25 years ago the company was founded by Udo Künzler in a 200 square metre workshop in Karlsbad, in southern Germany. Since then, the operation has developed into a leading stage / event technology company, and pioneers of LED technology in the sector. Today, the award-winning GLP […] The post GLP Celebrates 25 Years With Largest PL+S Booth And More Product...
GLP made a positive start to the exhibition year at ISE 2019 in Amsterdam today, occupying booth #7E-226 at the RAI. ISE marks the official release of the impression FR1 Track Mount version. The compact LED moving head offers a soft pencil beam, super-fast movement and continuous pan rotation for amazing 3D multi beam designs. […] The post GLP Launches Track Mount Version of the impression FR1...
Renowned production lighting designer Andi Watson recently undertook one of his most challenging projects ever — this time in the art world, thanks to a collaboration with LA based mixed media artist Doug Aitken. Conceived by Doug Aitken, the mirrored art installation, Mirage Detroit, has transformed the 100 year old Savings Bank in Detroit into […] The post GLP’s Custom Lighting Solution For...
Behind the now well-known panda mask is one of the most versatile and successful artists in Germany. Cro, whose real name is Carlo Waibel, has not only given the German rap scene a new face, he is also a designer, producer and director. After a club tour to promote the new album that was sold out within minutes, he returned last Autumn, again for an indoor tour, and as expected blew all pre-sale...
California-based lighting designer, Michael Berger, recently took on the unusual commission of lighting a special musical stage production of the BAFTA award-winning (and Golden Globe-nominated) feel-good movie, Love Actually, using a number of fixtures from the GLP portfolio. Although a long-time member of the Full Flood lighting design consortium, the commission came through Berger’s own...
The world-renowned Nitro Circus features Travis Pastrana and his friends travelling around the world riding dirt bikes, base jumping and performing stunts – and this has led the event onto several TV series, a 3D feature film and major arena tours. GLP’s automated heads have featured on this production since the days when veteran Australian LD […] The post Nico Riot Goes Nitro Crazy With GLP...
Clockenflap Music and Arts Festival, which takes place annually on Hong Kong’s Central Harbourfront Event Space, once again proved a major success. This year’s headliners included such names as David Byrne, Erykah Badu, Jarvis Cocker, Interpol, The Vaccines, Khalid and Wolf Alice, which delighted the crowds of more than 60,000. GLP’s award-winning X4 Bars were […] The post A-Team Plus Invests In...
Faced with their second full-scale arena tour, the mercurial Sheffield group Bring Me The Horizon (BMTH) were seeking a different look and feel from their previous shows. And so Sam Tozer was approached by production manager, Rob Highcroft, and Ollie Hutch who is one of the band’s creative as well as their FOH sound engineer. […] The post BMTH Strip Back To GLP’s Minimalist Industrialism appeared...
The announcement by American rapper Post Malone that he intended to stage his own festival at the 20,000-cap Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas Texas recently, featuring himself, Tyler the Creator and Travis Scott, created a wave of interest. Lighting Designer Ben Dalgleish has been using 36 of GLP’s massive X4 XL moving LED heads for […] The post GLP X4 Bar 20s The Feature Light At Posty Fest appeared...
“When the call came to make a Michael Jackson show, I knew immediately: that’s exactly what I wanted,” says lighting designer Marcus Krömer. Not only that, but the LP Thriller by pop legend Michael Jackson was his first self-bought record at the time, and he was always fascinated by the music, the sound and the pioneering shows of the King of Pop.