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M83 Tour

Steve Jennings speaks with Lighting Designer/Lighting and Video Programmer Sarah Landau, and Lighting Director Erin Peters about their work in support of French electronic group M83, with their style of alternate/pop-new wave music. Landau has designed every M83 tour since 2011.

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Tove Lo ‘Dirt Femme Tour 2023’

Mason Ford, Lighting Designer, Programmer and Director for Tove Lo’s “Dirt Femme” Tour, noted how the cloud set pieces were “the main element” at the start of his discussions with Creative Director Charlie Twaddle and the Tove Lo team. They opted to focus more on lighting than video—with no complaints from Ford—with a rig provided by Premier Global Production, the lighting vendor that had supported this artist’s “Sunshine Kitty” Tour in 2020. “When I heard from our Production Manager Tyler Young that we were going with [PGP], I definitely breathed a sigh of relief,” Ford said. “With Mark Donahue out as our Lighting Tech, and the gear they sent us out with, I didn’t have much to worry about.”

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Vance Joy ‘In Our Own Sweet Time Tour 2023’

Vance Joy’s “In Our Own Sweet Time Tour” was Lighting Director Morgan Embry’s first chance to work with LD Sooner Routhier, which Embry called “an absolute pleasure,” noting that the design “has really served the show by allowing us to customize to each venue,” including arenas, stadiums, theaters, and amphitheaters. This tour was also the third where Embry worked alongside Lighting Crew Chief & Tech Quincy Stanton, whom Embry credited for expertise and leadership skill. She also gave kudos to programmers Dan Norman and PJ Carruth for “an excellent job of laying programming groundwork that would translate to clean cloning, regardless of which fixture types changed from show to show.”

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Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets ‘Echoes’ Tour

PLSN speaks with Lighting Designer Paul “PK” Kell about designing Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets’ (NMSOS) “Echoes” tour. With Designer Patrick Woodroffe as the Executive Designer for the tour and Genesis’ legendary Manager Tony Smith managing Nick Mason / NMSOS, Kell jokes about the pressure to get it right, but he was more than up to the job, working with Tour Lighting Director Paul Howling.

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Rina Sawayama’s ‘Hold The Girl’ Tour

Having handled Rina Sawayama’s first tour, as well as her performance at Coachella and at the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan, it made sense that Lighting Designer, Director, & Programmer Chris Yeomans was again at the helm for Sawayama’s second tour, “Hold The Girl.” Yeoman tells us about the spherical design that has both meaning to the artist as well as practical functionality for the rig.

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Lauv’s Electro-Pop Playground

American electro-pop artist Ari Staprans Leff, who performs under the stage name Lauv, is currently on his All 4 Nothing Tour with dates running into December in the U.S. Designers Parker Genoway and Cory FitzGerald of Silent House, and Lighting Programmer/Director Will Flavin, spoke with PLSN about the lighting and video of the production, supplied by LMG.

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