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SAN FRANCISCO – AC/DC’s Rock or Bust Tour is thundering across North America, bringing night after night of head-banging delight to hundreds of thousands of fans. The grungy, buffalo horned, ‘Mad Max’ style arena spectacular is the inspired work of Ray Winkler of Stufish Design and Patrick Woodroffe of Woodroffe Bassett Design Ltd and sees lighting and set seamlessly welded together in an imposing corrugated steel clad domed stage.

BOSTON — LD Matthew Kilmurry is controlling Irish musician Hozier’s U.S. and U.K. tour lighting this autumn using an Avolites Sapphire Touch. Kilmurry’s design for the Hozier tour is based around a warm tungsten atmospheric feel, using old-school Edison bulbs dotted around the stage, which creates a warm glow for the performers.

LOS ANGELES — Roy Bennett’s lighting design for Maroon 5’s year-long World Tour 2015 in support of V, the band’s fifth studio album, includes 210 Ayrton MagicBlade-R fixtures. Bennett, of Seven Design Works, used the MagicBlade-R units to delineate 13 jointed truss “arms,” which are suspended in a “V” shape above the stage to form a pivotal feature of the stage design.

LAS VEGAS — The 2015 Parnelli Awards gala, hosted by Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman and honoring Chris Lamb, David Cunningham and Pat Quilter, is once again trending toward a complete sellout. As of Sept. 14, just one week after the Parnelli Awards ballot was finalized and made available online, the voting has been fast and furious, with reservations for the Oct. 24 event continuing apace. Voting from readers of PLSN and FRONT of HOUSE magazines will continue until Sept. 30, 2015.

LAS VEGAS – 4Wall Entertainment updated its rental inventory with additional gear again, this time with 44 Rogue R1 Washes from Chauvet Professional.

RALEIGH, NC – LD Daniel “Tebo” Thibault used LED fixtures anchored by the Rogue R2 Wash and COLORado2-Quad Zoom Tour from Chauvet Professional for Packapalooza, an annual festival/block party for students that’s also open to the public at the beginning of the school year at North Carolina State University campus. 

DALLAS – Disco Donnie Presents was one of the drivers of the EDM movement in the ’90s and remains at the top of its game today, producing over 1000 club events, arena shows and outdoor festivals a year. Creative Production and Design is a rapidly growing lighting and video company that has been spinning heads of late with its eye-popping work at major festivals. Together the two made magic happen at a recent Hardwell appearance in Dallas with help from a collection of Nexus LED panels, Legend moving fixtures, Amhaze hazers and PVP video panels from Chauvet Professional.

LAS VEGAS — The nomination phase of the 2015 Parnelli Awards has ended, the Parnelli Ballot has been posted, and voting has begun! Voting is restricted to active subscribers to PLSN (and FRONT of HOUSE) magazines, so every vote counts. Don’t miss out, go to ParnelliAwards.com and vote today!

NASHVILLE. – Bandit Lites, which recently added GLP impression X4 Bar 10 fixtures to its touring inventory, provided the battens for the touring rig used by Jason Isbell’s four sold out shows at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Lighting designer Michael Cummings of Pulse Lighting has utilized twelve of them on the upstage floors for both beam looks, pixel effects and as a light curtain.