Tom Sutherland of DX7 DESIGN brings us inside the live-streamed 5-hour event, the ‘TikTok In The Mix Festival’ which took place in front of a sold-out crowd of 17,000 music fans at Sloan Park in Mesa, AZ. Billed as “the first-of-its-kind live global experience on TikTok,” they brought in 9.6 million viewers tuning in live, and set a viewing record of 33.5 million viewers counting the original broadcast and three rebroadcasts.
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Production and Lighting Designer, Tobias Rylander invites us inside the two-story house set he designed for the Manchester, UK-based art rock band, The 1975 in support of their ‘Still… At Their Very Best’ tour.
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The design and production team show us how they keep PHISH’s looks fresh with ever-changing performances.
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Multi Grammy-winner Shania Twain is currently traveling the world with her Queen of Me tour. This marks Twain’s first tour in nearly five years. PLSN caught up with Lighting Designer André Petrus to talk about the lighting design and how it supports Twain’s music and performances. Petrus has been working with Twain since 2015 programming for her tours and lighting her well-received Las Vegas residency show.
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Matchbox Twenty is treating audiences to a unique emotional musical experience with their Slow Dream tour. Co-Production Designers, Sooner Routhier and Curtis Adams, Matchbox Twenty’s guitarist/Creative Director, Paul Doucette and many of the production team talk about creating a visual experience.
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The iconic, hard-rocking Metallica is back with an enormous stadium tour that has been called by some reviewers “cozy.” With a 120’ diameter ring-shaped stage that surrounds the famous Snake Pit of fans, the production team has created eight 100’ tall ground-supported towers that circle the stage with video, lighting, and audio to give every fan a rich Metallica experience.
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Designed by John McGuire, bLinK-182 have returned to the stage and hit the road with a massive world tour that is wowing audiences. A bit of a departure for the band, they are filling arenas with production values that include a floating ambulance and elevating drumset. PLSN hears from McGuire, Eric Gorleski and Griffin Dennen about working on the tour.
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Janet Jackson’s ‘Together Again’ tour is her 10th outing. For the ‘five act’ retrospective of her 50-year career, Eric Wade, Principal of Crossfade Design served as Production Designer as well as Tour Director. Troy Eckerman was Associate Lighting Designer/Lead Lighting Programmer. Both speak with PLSN about the production solutions supporting this dynamic artist’s tour.
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The Canadian heavy metal band Spiritbox recently finished their first headlining tour of North America, ‘The Eternal Blue Tour.’ Co-Creative Directors Lenny Sasso (also handling lighting design) and Drew Mercadante (who is also screens producer) fill us in on how the visuals came together for the well-received tour.
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The metal bands Gojira and Mastodon are out in 2023 on their co-headlining Mega-Monsters Tour. Lighting Designer Pete Cary has been with Grammy Award-nominated Gojira for six-and-a-half years, while Lighting Designer Eric Price has been lighting the Grammy Award-winning Mastodon for just over a year. They spoke with us about their collaboration on the tour design and the support of Chicago-based JRLX Lighting.
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Electronic music with live music from drumline and horn sections produces a unique acoustic and visually arresting live musical experience for ODESZA’s audiences. Co-Creative Directors Luke Tanaka and Sean Kusanagi along with Lighting Designer Kyle Kegan have been working with the band and PM Shane Crowl to ensure the visual design reinforces the dynamic performance on tour and at festivals during “The Last Goodbye Tour.”
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Having sold-out Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, Jelly Roll has become a sensation in the country music scene, though it was a long road to get to stepping onto that stage. His journey was the inspiration for the lighting and video design from LD Bobby Grey of Notan Creative and Creative Director, David Pawsey of Lüz Studios.
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