LD Bob Barnhart on the Long Path to Lighting the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Super Bowl LI took place in Houston on Feb. 5, 2017, and while the world will never really know if the halftime show’s patriotic themes gave the team from New England the edge they needed for their come-from-behind second half victory, the general consensus was that the show itself was a marvel.
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PLSN Checks In with the PMs Running the Top Tours of 2016.
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Three Industry Pros Define their Role on the Road
Road manager. Tour manager. Sometimes the titles are interchangeable. Above all, it means this: Make your artist happy. And make the show happen. Whatever it takes.
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PLSN caught a look at Twenty One Pilots’ ongoing “Emotional Roadshow” tour, the band’s biggest tour to date. With a design that started just two short years ago, playing in club/theater size venues, the band has grown to play to sold out arenas, and their design has grown with it. We spoke to production, lighting and set designer Daniel Slezinger and lighting director/co-designer Tyler “Shap” Shapard about the current trek.
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LD Kendall Clark Keeps the Beat on the EDM Duo’s “Spring Tour”
In 2015, the EDM track, “It’s Strange,” from Chicago-based EDM duo Louis the Child scored 10 million SoundCloud plays, spurred in part by a fortuitously timed shout-out from Taylor Swift.
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Lighting, Video Setup Helps Draw Top DJs, Friday Night Crowds for Marathon Sets
Miami is famous for its all-night clubbing scene, and since it opened in Sept. 2015, Heart has emerged as a top destination for revelers in the city’s downtown area on Friday nights (and some Thursdays and Saturdays too).
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The amount of weight any production can hang in a venue has long dictated the size of many productions. As touring productions get larger and use more rigging points, it’s become imperative that the weights on each point become precise to avoid overloading a hoist or the beam from which it is suspended. Over times, rigging weights have been measured from produce style looking scales to electronic devices with miles of thin wires. Today’s load cells are a strain gauge transducer that works like a digital scale. The business of figuring out rigging weights has gone wireless with the addition of BroadWeigh to the market. But let’s look at what led our industry to this achievement.
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A show director in the live events business is the person who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatrical production. This person unifies all the different production elements and departments through their own vision to achieve the end result. This individual commands an army of specialists in their fields, working with the lighting and set designers, costumes, video directors, content creators, audio engineers, musicians and choreographers. To name just a few.
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ORLANDO – APG Rentals has added high resolution 2.9mm, 1.9mm, and 1.5mm LED displays to its portfolio. APG Rentals will showcase the new line-up at ExhibitorLive 2017 in Booth #654 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 13th – 15th.
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HAMBURG, Germany — The Hamburg, Germany-based rap trio, Beginner, have been touring in support of their new album, Advanced Chemistry. LD Bertil Mark’s lighting design relies extensively on GLP products, including the company’s GT-1 and impression X4 fixtures.
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LONDON – Drake’s 2017 “Boy Meets World” tour, on the heels of his successful “Summer Sixteen” tour last year, has been impressing audiences in the U.K. and Europe this year. After a Jan. 28 show at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, Drake performed a series of shows at London’s O2 Arena and other big venues in the U.K. and Europe before returning to the Ziggo Dome later this month.
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A Unique Company Supports Top Tours and Events with an Expanding Array of New Lighting Products
Morpheus Lights is one of the pioneer companies of the modern entertainment lighting industry. The Morpheus brand is recognized as a hallmark in intelligent lighting fixture development, with numerous innovations, including CYM color mixing and rotating gobos that have now become industry standards.
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