John Featherstone and his daughter Hailey Featherstone, both of US-based visual design studio Lightswitch, have imagined the stunning lighting design for legendary film composer Hans Zimmer’s current “The Next Level” world tour. Hailey is out on the road as lighting director, together with 225 x Robe moving lights and 13 x RoboSpot Systems, among other lights. Robe was a go-to choice for John and...
This includes 128 x Robe Pointes and 109 x BMFL WashBeams which are right at the centre of a complex and eye-catching rig. The tour kicked off with 5 large stadium dates – all completely sold out - in Italy for which the set and video was designed by Igor Ronchese from Tekset based in Paderno Dugnano. It now continues in the U.S. where Pausini has a massive following especially amongst the...
Associate LD and lighting operator Manfred Nikitser from MANIK Show Lighting, Vienna, is running the lighting for the current touring schedule together with Rainer Becker. The summer shows are a mix of festival and own-headliners, 90% of the time using local productions matched as closely as possible to their generic spec. Robe’s BMFL Spots are among a number of primary moving light fixtures on...
Production designers Daniel Slezinger and Justin Roddick have embraced this eclectic theatrical mix of spectacle, mood and thought provoking performance since 2012, and the first time they saw TØP play at 12th & Porter, a Nashville club they owned at the time. Taking it from a US trailer tour to a sold-out multiple truck arena / amphitheater world tour, they have spec’d nearly 180 Robe fixtures...
These were supplied - together with other lighting including 24 x Robe Pointes - by leading Danish rental company, Comtech, based in Copenhagen which has invested heavily in Robe over the last year. The Arena accommodated a wide variety of bands over the four day festival – from breaking talent to established headliners like Slayer, PJ Harvey, New Order and James Blake, with a total of 21 acts...
The show is one of a number of festivals in the rising star artist’s action-packed summer and fall schedule which LA-based LD Brody has been lighting for the last three months. He was delighted to learn that the lighting package for GDF contained the BMFLs. Snake’s show design features big, bold, high-impact looks mainly using primary colors with plenty of red and white. There’s continuous...
Designing all visual departments - stage, video and television, effects lighting (design and operating) and co-ordinating the OB and camera technology - for this truly jaw-dropping spectacular experience was the team from Cologne based visual design and creative practice mo2, led by Manfred “Ollie” Olma. They used 200 Robe lighting fixtures – 180 Pointes, 20 x BMFL Blades and around 1500 other...
This time – with a re-working of the original rig design to make it practical for the venues and the touring schedule –there were 20 x Pointes …. and 47 x BMFLs Spots, all supplied by lighting contractors, Satis & Fy. Once again Gunther worked closely with Marc Lorenz as his lighting director and technology integration specialist, and together they brought innovation and imagination to the stage...
Arlo’s brief from Miranda Lambert herself and her production and management teams was to help create a show focused on her powerful music and great connection with her fans, rather than relying on gags, ego ramps, confetti blasts and wizzy effects. This was a great starting point that automatically evoked a thoughtful and intelligent approach to the visuals. She wanted a clean stage look with a...
The set was designed by Michael Gill from MGD and based on a collection of different sized LED screens, shaped into a multi-media environment giving everyone, wherever they happened to be seated in the auditorium, a clear and three dimensional view of the stage. Robert’s challenge was to light all these different sections of stage separately so they could work as stand-alone elements and punctuate...