Crowds congregate annually at the base of ‘Smart Alex’ ski trail in Ontario to watch the state’s finest freestyle skiers and snowboarders perform choreographed flips and tricks off the 50ft Big Air Jump, accompanied by music, lights, fireworks and all manner of show sizzle. To provide this for the ‘The Big Air Show’, as the event is known, required the building of a technical infrastructure, with...
Now approaching a decade of designing concept light shows for Manchester-based pop rock band The 1975 – earning him a prestigious KOI award in the process – Tobias Rylander has again delivered an inspired and original look for their current world tour, with assistance from over 100 of GLP’s impression FR10 Bars. After completing a handful of late autumn dates in the States, the band headed back...
Faced with their second full-scale arena tour, the mercurial Sheffield group Bring Me The Horizon (BMTH) were seeking a different look and feel from their previous shows. And so Sam Tozer was approached by production manager, Rob Highcroft, and Ollie Hutch who is one of the band’s creative as well as their FOH sound engineer. […] The post BMTH Strip Back To GLP’s Minimalist Industrialism appeared...
Mitchell Schellenger puts unique mark on show that has thrilled audiences worldwide for over a year Lighting and production designer Mitchell Schellenger has been using an Elation lighting rig to put a unique mark on the Imagine Dragons worldwide “Evolve” tour throughout 2018. Schellenger, who joined the tour early in 2018 in time for the first European leg, has been lighting several legs of the...
Among lighting designer Steve Bewley’s high profile roster of artists, is champion of hip-hop, Dizzee Rascal — in a relationship dating back eight years. Over the course of his long career, Bewley has turned to successive generations of GLP’s LED moving head solutions, starting with the original impression 90, before moving onto Volkslicht and X4/X4 […]