Lighting designer Nick Whitehouse used Robe SVOPATT multisource LED luminaires for NBC Sports’ 2026 Sunday Night Baseball show open, starring Zac Brown Band. The inventive lighting created the scale and energy of an epic stadium performance. Filmed at American Family Field, home of the Milwaukee Brewers, the show open features Zac Brown Band performing a reimagined rock classic. Nick needed high...
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System of a Down’s 2026 stadium tour featured a large Robe moving light rig which was specified by Rob Sinclair, who created the initial lighting design and concept in early 2025. On the previous incarnation, programmer Andre Petrus had created the strong backbone to the current showfile together with Meg Sinclair, Daniel Richardson and Matt Arthur, who added extra finesse once on the road. This...
Robe’s new GigaPointe moving lights made their Slovenian debut with popular indie rockers Joker Out, who celebrated their 10th birthday with a massive special show – Karneval, a festival-style, circus-themed extravaganza, including special guests – staged at the outdoor Kardeljeva ploščad venue at the university in capital Ljubljana. Tasked with designing lighting this landmark event was visual...
US rock band Bleachers are on the road this year after their fifth studio album, Everyone for Ten Minutes, dropped in May, fronted by lead singer Jack Antonoff, also one of the most prolific and successful music producers on the planet. Bleachers is his current live music performance project. Wanting something special, different, quirky and great-looking to set the stage show apart, he asked...
Italian pop superstar and singer-songwriter Tiziano Ferro is playing a sold-out Italian stadium tour – Stadi 26 – with an eye-popping lighting design by Giovanni Pinna, including nearly 150 Robe moving lights and 3 x Robe RoboSpot remote follow systems, all being operated on the road by lighting director Marco Zucchinali. The show is strongly video-based. Comix – the London-based multi...
Over 250 Robe moving lights – 264 to be precise – including 54 of the brand’s new laser-source GigaPointes – took centre stage at ULTRA Europe 2026, assisting the spectacular visual experience across the festival's Main and RESISTANCE stages in Split, Croatia, ensuring the adrenaline pumped and the serotonin levels peaked in Park Mladeži for three days in July. A star-studded lineup matched the...
Õllesummer Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, is one of the biggest beer festivals staged in the Baltics and originally ran annually from the 1990s until 2018, returning in 2024 after a five-year hiatus, since when it’s been more popular than ever. The sunny 2026 event again took place at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds, featuring approximately 100 artists, attracting over 100,000 visitors over 4...
Vienna, Austria-based technical and production company Concept Solutions this year won the tender to deliver full technical production for the STARnacht series of concerts – three popular music ‘spectacular’ events broadcast live on national TV and staged in exquisite locations nationwide, all in close proximity to water. Enjoyed by live audiences of around 9,000 a night all up for a great evening...
The Maatea (main) Stage at the 2026 Moorea Festival in France featured an impressive array of international electronic and EDM artists and an equally dazzling lighting design by Loic Esparraga – of Paris-based design studio MIND – with 48 x Robe GigaPointe moving lights at the core of the aesthetic. The festival, which started in 2024 and is growing and developing each year, was staged in the...
Slovenian lighting and visual design studio Blackout created and delivered an outstanding 360-degree lighting show for popular young Croatian singer Jakov Jozinović, who played two sold-out nights at the Stožice Arena in Ljubljana. The team was led by Blackout’s Crt Birsa and included two of his colleagues, Klemen Krajnc and Anze Trstenjak, and they had just 16 days between getting a decision on...