Glastonbury Festival No Sweat for Chauvet Fixtures

PILTON, UK – The 2019 Glastonbury Festival, staged near Pilton, U.K. from June 26-30, was one of the hottest in the event’s 36-year run. To keep any additional heat off the stages for the sweltering performers, Chauvet fixtures did their part; with LED light sources, they kept the stages well-lit, yet cool. The company’s fixtures were used on the Pyramid Stage, where Tim Routledge used the COLORado Solo Batten for headliner Stormzy, to the Flying Bus Stage and Greenpeace Field to the jam-packed Acoustic Stage.

RIO de JANEIRO – Brazilian singer-songwriter Samba Ferrugem, known for his distinctive red hair that inspired the Ferrugem (“Rust”) nickname, which he then adopted as a stage name, recorded a live concert DVD in Rio’s Jeunesse Arena. This spectacle, directed by Anselmo Trancoso, made use of 450 Robe moving light fixtures specified by director of photography Carlinhos “Carlos” Nogueira.

LONDON – As hip-hop artist AJ Tracey was wrapping up a recent tour of U.K. venues, LD James Scott used Vari-Lite/Signify’s feature-rich VLZ Profile. Scott, of design studio Suluko, worked with production designer and creative director Bronski and also Amber Rimell, of TawBox on the tour’s design. The VLZ Profiles were used for the artist’s show at Brixton Academy.

The Eiffel Tower celebrated its 130th Anniversary on May 15th and marked the occasion with a spectacular son et lumière atop the Iron Lady with 60 Elation Proteus Hybrid™ luminaires used in an extraordinary double helix design.

Rammstein, known for their spectacular pyro and fire-fueled shows, full-force industrial metal sounds, uncompromising sometimes controversial lyrics, their thrilling, hair-raising hi-energy live performances and adversarial commercial success … release their much-anticipated self-titled new album.