Germany - The largest electronic dance music festival in Northern Germany, Airbeat-One, takes place in Neustadt-Glewe. It lasts four days and sees up to 40,000 people take part. To get ready for an event of this size, stage designer Sebastian Eggert, from Music Eggert, designed a huge stage. He then designed the lighting for it, together with Sebastian Heise, and equipped it with Lightpower lights...
Edinburgh, Scotland – Claypaky Spheriscans were exclusively selected to deliver a display of spectacular lighting effects that merged architectural and entertainment lighting during Edinburgh’s famous Hogmanay torchlight procession. The award-winning fixtures were supplied and installed on The National Monument of Scotland at Calton Hill by Edinburgh-based production and rental outfit company...
UK - As part of their European journey, Swedish band Opeth opted for a single show at Wembley Arena for their UK audience. Magnus Boyd has been lighting the band for the last eighteen months. The show at Wembley was a part of the Sorceress World Tour. The first portion started in the US with twenty odd shows and continued in Europe. “During the tour, we have done special extended sets (at Radio...
USA – Lighting designer Bob Barnhart, who has lent his talents to 19 Super Bowl Halftime Shows, chose Claypaky Mythos and Sharpy fixtures to help illuminate Lady Gaga in her solo turn at Super Bowl LI at Houston’s NRG Stadium. Lady Gaga began the Halftime Show with a tribute to America singing “God Bless America” and “This Land is Your Land” on the roof of the stadium. She performed some dizzying...
JAPAN - The New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT) is one of the world’s finest art theatres which opened in October 1997 as a complex of theatres dedicated to the performing arts of opera, ballet, dance and drama. NNTT has three theatres; The Opera House, The Playhouse, and The Pit. Each is equipped with facilities of the latest technologies and designed to accommodate diverse requirements from...
Showlight 2017, Florence, Italy, 20-23 May 2017 Exciting news for Showlight 2017Showlight is delighted to announce more illustrious speakers from across our industry who are willing to lend their time and expertise to this unique quadrennial in Florence. The following designers are now on target to entertain us in May: Andreas HuberAndreas, who works for Osram, says that in our industry there is...
UK – Lighting designer Louisa Smurthwaite has selected Claypaky’s super bright hybrid luminaire the Mythos to break through the saturated LED wash on indie rock outfit Glass Animals’ latest tour, which was given four stars and described by The Independent as a ‘brilliant second album show’. Hailing from Oxford, England, the four-piece have played such venues as London’s The Roundhouse and Brighton...
UK – Knight of Illumination Award-winning lighting designer Tom Campbell has used a predominantly Claypaky rig in his recent redesign of Welsh heavy metal rock legends Bullet for my Valentine’s (BFMV) current fifth studio album tour ‘Venom’. Taking over from the bands previous lighting designer in July 2016, Campbell refreshed the rig with a selection of innovative moving head fixtures from the...
USA – Maxwell and Mary J. Blige are wrapping up their international “King & Queen of Hearts Tour” with a 24-date North American leg playing to packed houses . Daunte Kenner and Justin Collie, the production and lighting designers for Mary J. Blige and Maxwell, respectively, selected a large compliment of Claypaky Scenius moving head spotlights for the rig. The “King & Queen of Hearts Tour”...
DUBAI - Point a reasonably powered telescope at the planet Mars and you will see the so called canals beloved of science fiction writers. Turn that scope around to view Earth from Mars and a new canal is clearly visible at the heart of Dubai; and this one is no fiction (see DubaiSat-2 link below). Cutting an elegant swathe through the city, the new Dubai Canal opened with a spectacular ceremony...