Isaac Bargiela, creative director, lighting designer and scenographer for the production, used GLP JDC Burst 1 fixtures as the centerpiece of a unified visual language spanning lighting, video and scenography across one of Spain’s most ambitious current touring productions. Spanish singer-songwriter Dani Fernández has built one of the country’s strongest solo success stories of recent … Continue...
Sarah Connor is one of the most successful German-language artists of her generation. Her current number one album Freigeistin has brought her through a spring arena run across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with the production continuing into the summer with the Wilde Nächte open-air series. The lighting and production design is once again in the … Continue reading "GLP TWYN and WildBar 16...
GLP has introduced TWYN, a new dual-face moving head that brings together the capabilities of two of the company’s most successful platforms, the Creos and the JDC Burst 1, in a single motorized system. By combining a high-output RGBL wash with a hybrid strobe, TWYN offers a new approach to light design while significantly reducing … Continue reading "GLP TWYN Unites the Creative Strengths of...
With four premiere shows at Europa-Park in Rust, Germany, in mid-January, Swiss Eurodance icon DJ BoBo launched his latest live production. Titled “The Great Adventure,” the artist’s major 2026 European tour runs from May 1 to October 14 and comprises a total of 28 dates. Lighting design is once again in the hands of GERDON … Continue reading "GLP X5 Series Accompanies DJ BoBo on “The Great...
Top international electronic dance music acts, along with 65,000 ravers, again transformed the former Pydna missile base in the Hunsrück area of Germany into one of the hotspots of the European EDM scene recently. GERDON DESIGN has been providing the NATURE ONE festival with sensational creative designs for over 10 years – and this year was no exception, with designer Marek Papke’s team again...
Experienced lighting designer Anthony Hazelden has made the journey from classic theatre to high-octane dance raves effortlessly, his generic stage lighting of yesteryear now replaced by next generation hybrid LED strobes, including GLP’s new JDC Line 1000. For a recent EDM concert within Cardiff Castle he not only provided a cutting-edge floor package for headliner Fisher, for whom he was LD, but...
Geodis Park, home of Nashville Soccer Club, staged its first ever concert recently, hosting Shania Twain’s one-off Queen of Me stadium show. The concert was lit by André Petrus, well known as an experienced programmer, to add dimension to a concept conceived by creative producer and production designer Cory FitzGerald, of Silent House Productions. To create a fully immersive experience for the...
Between 16 and 18 June, one of the highlights of the German festival season took place in Scheessel, northern Germany, with the staging of the Hurricane Festival. The enormously versatile German rapper Casper, who rocked the River Stage on Saturday night, was one of the headliners of the festival alongside Muse, Kraftklub, Die Ärzte, Placebo, and Queens of the Stone Age. Thanks to a mobile bridge...
In the early summer of 2023 Herbert Grönemeyer was persuaded to return to Germany’s arenas, having released his latest (and 17th) album Das ist los back in March. Much can be said about this man: his distinctive voice, his emotional, always fundamentally optimistic lyrics, his social commitment. Whoever attends Grönemeyer’s concerts quickly realizes they … Continue reading "More Than 220 GLP...
DJ BoBo is a phenomenon. After 30 years on stage and 15 studio albums behind him – many of them gold and platinum – the Swiss artist is still selling out major venues. In 2023 there will be another anniversary tour (which is already almost completely sold out) with Evolut30n. Starting in May, 56 GLP XDC1 IP Hybrid strobes will travel with him. The two-and-a-half-week tour rehearsals – including...