International News

[caption id="attachment_278110" align="alignnone" width="800"]Dutch celebrate Liberation Day with ADJ gear[/caption]

NETHERLANDS – On 5th May 1945 the Netherlands was liberated from the Nazis. Initially the date was marked every five years with a celebration of liberation, but in 1990 May 5th was designated an annual national holiday in the Netherlands. The day is now commemorated by celebrations across the country, including music festivals held in one of the major cities of each of the Netherland’s 12 provinces. In Limburg, the festival is hosted in the city of Roermond and ADJ lighting was used to provide eye candy effects and illumination for one of the principle stages.

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BÉZIERS, France – For French rapper Soprano’s current tour, Victorien Cayzeele from All Access Design (AAD) specified Robe Spikies and BMFL Blades supplied by Dushow.

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[caption id="attachment_278098" align="alignnone" width="800"]Robert Haigh at the Brolga Theatre[/caption]

AUSTRALIA – The Brolga Theatre in Queensland’s Maryborough is a typical regional venue – its 900 seat proscenium arch theatre hosts an international ballet troupe one night, Jimmy Barnes the next, and a local dance school the day after. Though the venue is just 17 years old, changes in technology mean replacement lamps are no longer available for their wash lights, leading the staff to assess how to upgrade for the future. The future, as they see it, is Elation’s Platinum Seven RGBWAC-UV LED wash.

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[caption id="attachment_278092" align="alignnone" width="800"]Linkin Park at the O2[/caption]

LONDON – You can take the band out of Southern California, but you can’t take So Cal out of the band.  Completing the European leg of their world tour in Birmingham recently, Linkin Park’s ‘One More Light’ is a departure from the group’s earlier work.  Smooth, subtle, and sometimes moody, the band’s evolving sound is complemented by the tour’s lighting designer, Celine Royer. Seventy-four Solaris Flare Q+ fixtures play a key role in her design.

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PARIS – Philips’ Vari-Lite VL6000 Beam luminaires are playing a central role in the lighting design for Depeche Mode’s Global Spirit tour. Lighting design for the tour is by Sooner Routhier and Robert Long of US-based SRae Productions. Associate lighting designer Brian Jenkins programmed the show for SRae, while lighting director Manny Conde is responsible for the lighting on the tour. The lighting equipment is being supplied by UK-based production rental specialist HSL Group.

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LIVERPOOL – As part of British Style Collective’s three day fashion extravaganza staged at Liverpool’s Echo Arena, VER London are proud to have supported the production crew on Rock the Runway, a brace of daily show-stopping performances mixing models and dancers in a fashion-meets-music spectacle.

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UK – New Order + Liam Gillick So It Goes … is a bold and original collaboration between gurus of electronic music New Order and conceptual visual artist Liam Gillick, which is orchestrated by Joe Duddell and presented for the 2017 Manchester International Festival on Stage 1 at the iconic Old Granada Studios in the city. Lighting was designed by the band’s long term LD Andy Liddle, with equipment supplied by Blackburn-based rental specialist HSL, project managed by John Slevin and co-ordinated on site for them by Andy Chatburn.

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LONDON  – Creating a concept to sculpt the air with light, Tony and Olivier award-winning lighting designer Neil Austin has drawn on the work of early visionaries Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig and the more recent Josef Svoboda to deliver his fractured, abstract and constantly changing masterpiece for the Jack Thorne adaptation of Woyzeck at the Old Vic. He connected their vision with the versatile delivery of GLP’s X4 Bars, which have been his main weapon on this production.

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GENK, Belgium – Lighting and visual innovators Painting with Light were approached to design a special feature for the current ‘Black To The Future’ art exhibition, which is being organized by art collective Het Labo and staged at the C-MINE cultural center in Genk, Belgium. The environment is a redeveloped coal mine once the pulse of local industry, now tastefully restored and again serving the community meaningfully as a cultural center and creative hub for media and tech-related companies and the LUCA School of Arts.

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[caption id="attachment_277928" align="alignnone" width="800"]Chauvet Fixtures used at Glastonbury[/caption]

GLASTONBURY, UK – From its humble beginnings in 1970, the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts has championed performance diversity in all its shapes and forms. The Circus Big Top and the Wow! stages are two examples that perhaps best encapsulate this tradition of diversity at Glastonbury. While both stages featured very different forms of entertainment, both had a consistently excellent visual palette thanks once again to Fineline Lighting and rigs that featured CHAUVET Professional fixtures.

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PILTON, U.K. – ChamSys consoles were widely used at the 2017 edition of the Glastonbury Festival. From the Other Stage, where the event’s top headliners performed, to the Silver Hayes WOW Stage, where LDs cooked up hot looks for EDM artists, ChamSys products were used at the festival. Pictured here, JC from JC from GLS Lighting looks after the MQ200 console used for the event’s Avalon Stage.

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MONTERREY, Mexico – For the Pa’l Norte Festival, a two-day event that drew a total of close to 160,000 March 31-April 1 to Monterrey’s Fundidora Park with a roster of headliners that included The Killers, Placebo, MIA, The Offspring, Kaskade, Maná, Jason Derulo and Enanitos Verdes among others, Serpro Producciones provided a lighting rig that included 72 Maverick MK2 Washes from Chauvet Professional..

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