VIENNA, Austria – LDs Roland Greil and Patrick Woodroffe of Woodroffe Bassett Design specified more than 100 Chroma-Q Color Force II LED battens for Rammstein’s 2019 summer stadium tour in Europe. The lighting design for the heavy-hitting German industrial metal band complemented the production design by a team led by Florian Weider. Neg Earth supplied the gear.
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Aspiring baseball players call the major leagues “the show,” but in recent years all sports have incorporated more entertainment elements as games, and even former backroom transactions like player drafts, have been transformed into full-fledged events.
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Esports has become big business. Witness the Fortnite World Cup Tournament, a three-day spectator competition where professional video gamers competed for $30 million in prize money.
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This May saw the launch of Rod Stewart’s new world tour in support of Blood Red Rose, the artist’s 30th solo album
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Halsey’s star has clearly been on the rise since debuting in 2014 with a distinctive singing voice and flair for the dramatic that has attracted a growing number of fans to the talented pop artist.
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MADRID – For Muse’s ongoing Simulation Theory world tour, creative director Jesse Lee Stout worked with LD/programmer Sooner Routhier and lighting director Aaron Luke on a design that included Solaris Flares and other gear from TMB supplied by Upstaging.
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A new full moon rose in the sky on the evening of July 16. Glowing brightly over the US capital, it served as a good omen for the start of “Apollo 50 Go for the Moon,” a spectacular four-day celebration at The National Mall that marked the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
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Wrightwood 659 is a new art gallery in Chicago exhibiting architecture and socially engaged art.
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RENO, NV – For their current tour with Young the Giant, Fitz and the Tantrums are connecting with the audience with a visual design from Jeremy Lechterman and the FragmentNine design team that includes 28 Chauvet Professional COLORado Solo Batten fixtures supplied by LMG.
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BAKERSFIELD, CA – Bandit Lites is supporting Jackson Browne’s 2019 tour with a design from LD Steve Comer that makes use of more than 100 fixtures including Martin MAC Auras and Vipers, GLP X4’s and Chauvet Rogue RH1 Hybrids and Maverick Pyxis fixtures.
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BIDDINGHUIZEN, The Netherlands – At the 2019 Defqon.1 dance festival staged at the Walibi Holland theme park over three days in late June, video crews relied on a variety of Blackmagic Design production components including URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 and ATEM 4 M/E Broadcast Studio 4K for Ultra HD live production.
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Popular Irish singing group / boyband Westlife reformed and hit the road again this summer in what one of the most popular and successful reformation campaigns.
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