Rundgren’s EDM Project (with Singing Dancers) Fills Smaller Venues with a Big Rave Vibe
Martin Thomas apologizes for being a few minutes late to the interview. “I’m solo on this tour, and I touch everything,” he says, explaining that, besides a few local tech hires, the whole operation is literally in his hands. You could say the whole “world” is.
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Paul McCartney’s Longtime Lighting Director is Someone You Should Know
Wally Lees has been on the live concert scene for his entire adult life. For the last 13 years, he could be found behind a console directing the lighting for every show Paul McCartney has performed, with good reason. But it didn’t start out at the top for a Scottish lad who moved from Glasgow down to the Midlands of the U.K. with his family when he was nine. At 20, Wally got an offer from his best friend’s brother to work as an electrician at a cabaret in Watford under his supervision.
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Altman Pegasus Fresnels are 6” (pictured here) and 8” (pictured below) White output LED Fresnels that are both Mains Dimmable or DMX controlled all in one luminaire. Pegasus replicates the soft light output that is expected from a theatrical or Studio Fresnel. At under 150 Watts the 6” Pegasus Fresnel far surpasses the output of its 500 watt incandescent counterpart, where the 8” Pegasus Fresnel meets the output of its 750 watt incandescent counterpart.
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It’s been a dozen years since Shania Twain has hit the road on tour. She picked up right where she left off with a gorgeous production design for her current “Rock This Country” tour. In 2004, she stopped singing to heal her throat and stayed silent up until she took up residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in 2012. Ten months before that run of 105 shows, the artist met with show director Raj Kapoor to come up with a production for those distinct shows. A good relationship was formed and, once again, the singer looked to him and his company for a vision on this tour, which launched in June and wraps later this month.
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Martin’s P3-PC System Controller can now be seamlessly integrated with Green Hippo’s Hippotizer media servers, according to Harman. The move will let users install the P3-PC software directly onto any Green Hippo media server running the Hippotizer V4 software, effectively enabling the media server to output the Martin P3 protocol.
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The Smashing Pumpkins + Marilyn Manson co-headlining tour was out this summer with the Pumpkins set designed and directed by Lawrence Upton and Manson’s set designed and directed by Jon Eddy. PLSN spoke with Craig Gaff, lighting designer and director at UV Lighting, about the Pumpkins side. UV Lighting, based out of Chicago, is Gaff and Upton’s design and consulting company. The tour’s lighting provider was DPS Inc.
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Mary J. Blige Sings, and VIP Guests Imbibe, at the Foot of the Statue of Liberty
The Budweiser Made in America Festival, presented in Philadelphia over Labor Day weekend, is sponsored by Anheuser–Busch and produced in partnership with Live Nation. This year, the pre-festival kicked off the with the first ever event in Budweiser’s Monument Series, which was a free, private concert on Liberty Island by nine-time Grammy Award winner, Mary J. Blige.
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Filmwerks Turns to ModTruss for Broadcast Staging Solution
For the eighth consecutive year, the ModTruss product line has been selected for stage construction at the US Open Tennis Championship. This year, eight broadcast stages were built for the United States Tennis Association (USTA) using ModTruss’ Truss Series and its components. ModTruss continues to be the US Open’s product of choice for broadcast staging due to unique and challenging set positions as a result of spatial restrictions.
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NASHVILLE – Multi-instrumentalist Grace Potter is currently touring the country with songs her from her newest album, Midnight. Bandit Lites is supporting lighting design firm Pulse Lighting and LD Preston Hoffman. The setup includes four truss towers, each with three GLP X4s, two Robe Pointes and two Cuepix Blinders from Elation.
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Quantum Special Effects says its Multi-Sensory FX can replicate any flavor, from the latest soft drink brand to food combinations. It is then dispersed via a range of mechanics, visual and non-visual, including smoke-filled bubbles, mist, rain and snow. Pictured here are the company’s smoke-filled bubbles, developed for Katie Melua’s tour.
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The new Prodigy color engine from SeaChanger is engineered to provide color mixing for fixtures using a white LED light source. Prodigy gives users the same high color rendering and extensive palette achieved with traditional tungsten fixtures, while incorporating the energy efficiency of compatible LED technology. The new Prodigy also features a slimmer housing design and silent, fan-free operation with color changes in less than 0.3 seconds.
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