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 mid-2022, pop musician Alice Merton released her second studio album , S.I.D.E.S. After a few dates in the USA, she began her European tour in mid-July to promote the new work live. LD Tobias Schwietz took 12 GLP impression X4 Bar 20 with him on the trip. The idea behind the lighting and stage design was primarily about creating as tidy a look as possible, with little visible technology on the...
The growing importance of ISE following the expo’s move to Barcelona was illustrated by the enormous attendance at this year’s trade fair. With the show having mushroomed since its origins in pure AV to embrace show technology in all its forms, GLP was one company that responded positively to the evident interest in the lighting segment. This year the show hosted a total of 58,107 visitors – well...
When she set out to design George Ezra’s 2022 arena and festival lighting rig, production designer Cate Carter didn’t need to look much further than the GLP catalog to achieve the dynamic she was seeking. The LD first added Ezra to her enviable portfolio of clients back in 2019 – then as part of the Bryte Design collective – before being re-engaged, this time as an independent, to help promote...
Multiple award-winning lighting designer Ed Warren called on a range of GLP’s ground-breaking products when it came to lighting Idles’ tour – despite the fact that this Bristol-based noise-rock band have historically kept their stage lighting to a minimum. Warren has worked with the band since their first album, Brutalism, back in 2017, through to a landmark gig at Ally Pally and the Glastonbury...
The global launch of GLP’s highly anticipated impression X5 washlight is occupying one of the most unique stages in American TV history this spring, with the launch of the eight-part American Song Contest ( ASC), airing on NBC. Based on the EBU-organized Eurovision Song Contest ( ESC), which has been running for 65 years, and is the longest-running annual international televised music competition...
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...
GLP proved at this year’s PLASA Show that it is sometimes unnecessary to take more than a minimal booth to create maximum impact. Its formula for the UK’s premier trade fair, as it reawakens, was simple: take a stand immediately inside the main entrance and blitz the crowd with a battery of JDC Lines, its incredibly bright hybrid strobes, as they set foot inside the hall. These lined up alongside...
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...
The German Sustainability Prize ( Nachhaltigkeitspreis) has been awarded by the Nachhaltigkeitspreis Foundation for the past 13 years, in cooperation with the country’s Federal Government and several public and civil society institutions. Outstanding sustainability achievements in business, municipalities, and research are awarded in several categories. On 3 & 4 December 2020, the prizes were...