Richard “Nook” Schoenfeld, noted Lighting Designer, Writer, and Editor Emeritus of Projection, Lights & Staging News (PLSN) magazine, died on the morning of December 14, 2022. He was 65. Though he had beaten pancreatic cancer this past year and was cancer-free, complications from that fight resulted in liver failure.Read More »In Memoriam: Richard “Nook” Schoenfeld, 65 (1957-2022)
UK-based Lighting Designer Durham Marenghi is no stranger to high-profile events with numerous Winter and Summer Olympics Opening and Closing ceremonies, Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee events, many citywide New Year’s in London celebrations and more to his credit. He recently lit the Opening Ceremony for FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, which featured large complements of Claypaky Sharpy X Frame, Tambora Linear 100, Xtylos and Sharpy fixtures throughout the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar.Read More »Claypaky Fixtures Help Lighting Designer Durham Marenghi Create Magic for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Opening Ceremony
Marc-Antoine Girard—also known as DJ Phoenix—of Ottawa, Canada has reinvented the DJ livestream by immersing himself in a virtual world of his own creation with a large virtual lighting setup creatively driven by Obsidian Control Systems’ ONYX platform. The unique DJ sets stream three times weekly on Twitch with Girard controlling lighting and special effects, virtual camera views and video projection content while mixing electronic dance music and interacting with viewers in a virtual nightclub environment.Read More »Marc-Antoine Girard Reinventing DJ Livestreaming with Help from Obsidian ONYX Platform
UK rockers alt-J were back on the road again in 2022 having released their fourth studio album The Dream earlier in the year, and their enigmatic live performance style could be enjoyed with a new lighting design by Davy Sherwin. A striking scenic element of the design was created using 60 Astera NYX Bulbs hung on a series of asymmetric drops from the overhead trusses and attached to specially modified mic stands deployed on the floor. All of this created a cool organic looking ‘forest’ of NYX Bulbs which were supplied together with the other lighting kit for the UK and European dates by Hampshire-based rental specialist, Liteup.Read More »Astera NYX Bulbs Dream with alt-J
The line between the stage and audience quickly becomes blurred to the point of obliteration on IDLES’ current world tour. Rocking out the crowd with their relentlessly intense vocals, jagged guitar riffs, explosive drumming, and animated physical presence, the award-winning band from Bristol jumps right into things, quite literally, as the guitarists invariably leave the stage at some points in the show to crowd surf the giant mosh pits that gather before them.Read More »Ed Warren Connects IDLES to the Crowds with Help from ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M
GLP lighting solutions have been no strangers to Post Malone’s stage scenography over the years, and his latest Twelve Carat tour – with Dan Norman (of Evolve Lights) now in charge of the visuals – is no exception. Introduced to the creative team in 2019 to help program new songs that were added to the Runway tour, he has subsequently worked consistently with the Posty Touring team, along with Production Manager Dennis Danneels. Along the way Norman designed the artist’s Billboard Awards remote performance in a sand quarry and a New Year’s Eve Bud Lite livestream event during the pandemic prior to a 2021 festival run.Read More »GLP impression FR10 Bars and JDC1s Dominate Post Malone’s ‘Twelve Carat’ Tour
Country music superstar Luke Bryan continued his Raised Up Right tour into the fall with a grandMA3 console controlling lighting and video for the show. Bryan’s tour kicked off last June in Charleston, West Virginia and concluded at the end of October in Jacksonville, FL. Raised Up Right is in support of his brand-new album, Born Here, Live Here, Die Here. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America. Read More »Justin Kitchenman Calls Up grandMA3 Software for Luke Bryan’s ‘Raised Up Right’ Tour
How Jack Harlow’s creative team and touring crew brought the Come Home, The Kids Miss You tour to North America and Europe
After dropping out of college to start his touring management and production company, Chadrick Fellers’ grandmother told him he was “wasting his potential” so naturally, he named his company after the epic diss. In handling the logistical, design, and programming aspects of touring, Fellers had found his calling and success. His company, WastedPotential, has grown steadily and boasts an impressive roster of musical clients including Rod Wave, Future, Lil Baby, A$AP Rocky, Russ, Blxst, Fletcher, AJR, Bazzi and most recently, Jack Harlow.Read More »PRG Helps Bring Jack Harlow Home
Lighting Designers Omer Israeli & Dor Aichner of Tel Aviv-based lighting and stage design company, LEAD, chose a large complement of Claypaky fixtures to illuminate the dynamic, futuristic Hack the Galaxy event held by Rapyd at the 2022 Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. They utilized 96 Tambora Batten Square, 16 Mythos 2, and 48 Xtylos fixtures for the third and last event in Rapyd’s Hack the Galaxy campaign held at developer conferences in Europe in 2022. Previous events took place in Berlin, Germany and Zadar, Croatia. Lisbon’s Web Summit is an annual tech conference focusing on Internet technology, emerging technologies and venture capitalism. More than 70,000 attended the November 2022 gathering.Read More »Rapyd’s ‘Hack the Galaxy’ Event Shines with Claypaky Fixtures Chosen by Lighting Designers Omer Israeli and Dor Aichner
Janes Addiction were out supporting the Smashing Pumpkins beneath a lighting rig of Elation Artiste Monet™ and DARTZ 360™ LED moving heads designed, programmed and operated by Alex Picard. Lighting supply and support was from Legacy Production Group.Read More »Efficient, Effective Elation Gear on Janes Addiction ‘Spirits on Fire Tour’
Rising artist Riley Clemmons launched her first head-lining tour with a lighting system provided by Bandit Lites. With over 210 million global streams and 50 million YouTube video views since the beginning of her almost decade long career, Clemmons’s soaring vocals and touching lyrics have endeared her to millions of fans around the world. The First Christmas Tour is named for her hit Christmas song.Read More »Riley Clemmons Calls on Bandit Lites for ‘First Christmas Tour’
Rain can play havoc with any outdoor festival. That much is true, but in Phoenix AZ? The second driest city in the USA (only Las Vegas gets less precipitation), Phoenix has gone as long as 160 days without rain; that happened back in 1972. The organizers of the inaugural Zona Music festival had no such luck. On December 3, the day the festival opened, Mother Nature dropped .76 inches of rain down on the city, breaking a record that had stood for 115 years.Read More »Creative BackStage and CHAUVET Professional Brighten Up Zona Music Festival