The Antwerpen Sportpaleis played host to a cornucopia projected lasers and lighting earlier this summer when promoters, Zillion presented their new immersive ‘Iluminati’ dance concept. This brand-new design, conceived by Frank Verstraeten, who co-promoted the event with Yves Smolders, ran over two days—each with nine hours duration. A capacity 14,500 crowd immersed themselves in this unique...
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...
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...
GLP lighting solutions have been no strangers to Post Malone’s stage scenography over the years, and his latest Twelve Carat tour – with Dan Norman (of Evolve Lights) now in charge of the visuals – is no exception. Introduced to the creative team in 2019 to help program new songs that were added to the Runway tour, he has subsequently worked consistently with the Posty Touring team, along with...
When London-based post-punk revival band White Lies played the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith – a stone’s throw from where they formed back in 2007 – the landmark show, part of their pan-European tour, highlighted an expansive stage production populated by 94 of GLP’s JDC Line 1000 hybrid strobes. This is the largest complement of these fixtures so far deployed on a single show in the UK. The LD...
Young German pop singer Nico Laska recently presented his debut album, NI/CO, at a sold-out event at the Frankfurt club Nachtleben. Working alongside him was lighting designer and operator Patrick Rabus, a long-time friend of the musician. In order to give the small basement club an atmosphere worthy of the occasion, Rabus turned to GLP’s JDC Line and FUSION Exo Wash. “The Nachtleben is a typical...
Essex-based rock band Nothing But Thieves recently completed a UK headline tour, with experienced LD Sam Tozer (of Vision Factory) masterminding their stage look, having been brought in to create a new style. He was working alongside lighting director Ryan Dennett and production manager Andrew Sweeney. “We wanted to create a show that matched the new art direction of the latest album,” he explains...
When the state of Illinois eased its stringent lockdown rules, and Chicago’s busy outdoor events schedule resumed, one person who was primed and prepped was Matthew Brotz, who runs locally based LEC Event Technology. Knowing that Chicago is capable of experiencing four seasons in a day, he realized that not only his large inventory of GLP product would need weather protection, but also moving...
The Ehrlich Brothers, Europe’s most famous illusionists, should have recorded their ‘Dream & Fly’ show for DVD and TV in March 2020. Everything was already set up in Munich when production was prohibited by an order from the Bavarian state. But the Ehrlich Brothers would not be the Ehrlich Brothers if they simply left it at that. And so Andreas and Chris Ehrlich started planning the two part TV...
Hundreds of GLP’s JDC1 hybrid strobes were deployed by lighting designers Mat Stovall and Trevor Stirlin Burk at the new Pudong Football Stadium in Shanghai for the League of Legends World Championship 2020 Finals—the pinnacle of the eSports community and the concluding event of the season. Organized by Riot Games and ConCom Inc, the event took place on a massive scale. ‘The Worlds’ was broadcast...