When Lighting and Stage Designer Steve Wary was charged with creating the look for the opening ceremony of the Saudi Games 2024, he chose 50 Claypaky Skylos fixtures to help the event get off to a dynamic start. Held October 3-17, the Saudi Games were the third edition of the largest national sporting event staged annually in the Kingdom. More than 9,000 male and female athletes competed in 52...
In just three years, Constanta, Romania’s “Beach Please” has become the largest urban music festival in Europe drawing hiphop, pop and electronic headliners. The 2024 show, held July 10-14, featured a stage spanning 82 x 26 meters with a lighting rig comprising 430 moving light fixtures. To match the colossal scale of the production, Stage and Lighting Designer Andrei Predut of APart Productions...
– Claypaky Xtylos played a key role in Limp Bizkit’s ”2024 Loserville Tour,” the nu-metal band’s 24-stop North American summer road show. Las Vegas-based OSA International, Inc. provided the full production package for the tour, including audio, lighting and cameras. The ”Loserville Tour” kicked off in Wisconsin in July and wrapped in San Bernardino, California at the end of August. Justin Wade...
Jonny Tosserello, known as ” Tosser,” Production Manager and Lighting Designer/Director for legendary American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, is continuing his long-time use of Claypaky Xtylos for ” The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour” with ZZ Top co-headlining. Tosser is a principal of Rock’n’Roll Drive-in based in southeastern Missouri. Lynyrd Skynyrd, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year...
An unmissable event for theatre lovers, the Festival d’Avignon celebrates its 78 th edition in 2024. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, this major international performing arts event attracts thousands of enthusiasts each summer to various venues around the city. At the heart of the festival, the Cour d’Honneur of the Palais des Papes is an emblematic venue, offering a unique setting for exceptional...
The “Vasco Live 2024” tour took place across three venues with a total of twelve shows, kicking off at the Stadio Comunale in Bibione, followed by seven dates at the San Siro Stadium in Milan and concluding with four performances at the San Nicola Stadium in Bari. As every year, the tour of Italy’s leading rocker was marked by an impressive deployment of equipment and technology, including a...
Green Day continues “ The Saviors Tour 2024” with Claypaky Tambora Flash fixtures from Upstaging accompanying the band on their world tour. Tambora Flash is a unique hybrid fixture that acts simultaneously as a strobe, wash and blinder, specifically designed for use in a linear array. The band’s sold out global stadium tour will play over 60 dates. It kicked off in May in Spain and celebrates the...
Sharpy X Frame is one of the most versatile, compact hybrid fixtures available today, ideal for bright spotlighting, dynamic aerial effects, and precise framing. It features a powerful 550-Watt arc lamp for extreme brightness and vivid, uniform colors, including an unmatched deep red. This fixture is housed in a lightweight, compact design, to meet the evolving needs of modern lighting...
When an international group invites its employees to an event, sometimes an exhibition centre facility is sufficient. Schoko Pro GmbH in Wiesbaden recently organised a corporate event of this capacity at the Stockholm Exhibition Centre. For the lighting of the entire day’s celebration, involving both conference and gala spaces, the team led by project manager Joe Wippel used Claypaky’s compact...
Blearred Milano dealt with the tour lighting design, which saw the Arolla Aqua take centre stage. We spoke to lighting designer Jordan Babev about the project. Max Pezzali’s first real stadium tour in over 30 years of career, Max Forever, sold out across all venues, drawing floods of fans of all ages eager to sing along at the top of their lungs to his every hit. The 10-date tour was a nostalgic...