40 Years of Clay Paky: preserving the past and celebrating the future Having been founded on 28 August 1976, Clay Paky is thrilled to be celebrating its 40-year milestone at ProLight+Sound 2016. The company’s history, during which its true passion for entertainment lighting and commitment to the industry has been unwavering, is a fascinating journey marked with many successes. With a strong sense...
Philippines – One of the biggest boy bands in K-pop, EXO, have played their first two concerts outside of Korea with a high-impact lighting design by Moon Won Jun of Lite Factory using over 200 Clay Paky fixtures in Manila, Philippines. PMX Trading and Technical Services supplied a full technical package to the two consecutive dates, including 130 x Clay Paky Sharpys, 50 x Sharpy Wash 330s, 16 x A...
USA – Lighting designer Bob Barnhart, a veteran of Super Bowl Halftime Shows, chose Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s and gold Sharpys to help light the milestone Super Bowl 50 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Super Bowl Halftime Shows always come with challenges, and the daylight-into-sunset timing of this year’s entertainment made it “much more complex from a lighting standpoint,”...
USA – Jason Derulo wowed viewers at the “42nd People’s Choice Awards” with a high-energy performance that featured Clay Paky Scenius moving head spotlights as the main effects lights for the dynamic singer/dancer. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky fixtures in North America. Honoring the best in popular culture for 2015, the “People’s Choice Awards” were held January 6...
UK – Singer songwriter Hozier has taken his self-titled debut album on tour with a carefully crafted lighting design by Matthew Kilmurry who specified Clay Paky Mythos to play “one of the most versatile roles in the show.” Kilmurry specified the award-winning Clay Paky fixtures from Adlib Audio, employing them for fast-paced punchy beam looks, spot work, atmospheric washes and seamless colour...
Germany - Contour Veranstaltungsservice GmbH has just invested in thirty Clay Paky 100 Show Batten AS units. Besides the AS units, the company also used fourteen new Show Batten 100s, with symmetric optics, at Wirtschaftstag 2015. The Wirtschaftstag is a business forum that takes place annually at the Frankfurter Jahrhunderthalle. It is considered the barometer of the German economy and this year...
Howard Jones and Nate Alves, who codesigned the lighting for Brantley Gilbert’s Black Out World Tour, have selected an array of Clay Paky fixtures – including the new Scenius moving head spotlight – for the current leg of the arena tour Gilbert, the country rock singer and songwriter, kicked off the US and Canada leg of the Black Out World Tour playing to capacity crowds in Saginaw, Michigan...
ITALY - This is Jovanotti's year, with extraordinarily successful record sales and a triumphant tour, Lorenzo negli Stadi, which dominated the 2015 summer season and thrilled and captivated 500 thousand fans. Now the equally innovative, awesome Lorenzo nei Palasport 2015-2016 is here. The new show was conceived, designed and written specially for indoor venues, and kicked off on 19 November in...
The fascinating story of Jack Kelly is on stage at the Teatro Nazionale in Milan. It is inspired by the true story of the news boys' strike in 1899, when it was the news boys themselves who sold the papers. They were mostly teenagers between thirteen and sixteen years old who bought the copies from the publishers and then tried to sell them at their own risk: unsold copies were not returned. Jack...
World – Folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner is on a world tour in support of his latest album ‘Positive Songs for Negative People’ with a punchy rock and roll lighting design by Shaun Moore using 30 Clay Paky Mythos fixtures. Moore of Nitelites, who has worked with Frank and his backing band The Sleeping Souls since 2010, is using the high advanced beam and spot hybrid for large backlight...