With 35 acts performing across three floors over a duration of 14 hours to around 18,000 dance aficionados, the traditional Mayday EDM event in Dortmund followed a familiar theme. But for LD Thomas Gerdon, who has provided production design for five of the last seven events, the only important aspect was that a radical change, […] The post GLP’s Market Leading Hybrids Out In Force On Mayday 2018...
Swedish hip hop group, Hov1 recently played a series of mid-sized domestic venues of around 3,000 capacity on their first Until Next Time production tour. Jakob Larsson was responsible for the lighting, drawing heavily on industry-leading LED fixtures from GLP — a brand that has been a feature of his toolkit for many years. Taking […] The post Jakob Larsson Uses Full GLP Armory For HOV1 appeared...
The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), the world’s largest music event, has taken place every year since 1956. Around 185 million television viewers around the globe tuned in for this year’s show, which was broadcast live from the Altice Arena in Lisbon. Originally built for the Expo 98, the arena is one of the largest arenas […] The post 64 KNV Arc From GLP At Eurovision Song Contest 2018 appeared...
The exceptional singer songwriter Adel Tawil is again on tour in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Prior to the tour, he used a number of festival appearances to present his current No. 1 album “so schön anders” before embarking on an extensive theatre tour that ended with three sold-out arena shows last Autumn. These included all […] The post Between Space And Chaos – Bertil Mark And GLP With...
One of Japan’s most popular singer songwriters, Koji Kikkawa, added real dynamics to his recent Live Is Life arena show at the 8,000-capacity Musashino Forest Sport Plaza with the aid of 23 JDC1 hybrid strobes from GLP. Specified by lighting and set designer, Makoto Shimizu—who was also performance director—these were programmed in full 68-DMX channel […] The post Koji Kikkawa Arena Show Brought...
GLP reported another excellent Prolight + Sound show in Frankfurt, showcasing a number of innovative new products to both domestic LDs and an international trade audience that spanned all five continents. Altogether, over 1,000 fixtures were featured in Frankfurt, both on the company stand and in the Festhalle. On the show floor visitors could see […] The post GLP Scores Big… Both On And Off Site...
Known colloquially as RodeoHouston, The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (HLSR) is the world’s largest livestock show and richest regular season rodeo, dedicated to benefiting youth, supporting education, and facilitating better agricultural practices through exhibitions and presentations. It draws more than 1.4 million people each year to the 72,000-capacity NRG Stadium and over 2.5 million […]...
Currently on the European leg of their WorldWired tour, which opened in North American stadiums last summer, heavy metal heroes Metallica remain as fresh as ever. And a lot of that has to do with the imaginative set devised by Production Designer, Dan Braun and built by Tait Towers. Meanwhile, experienced lighting designer Rob Koenig […] The post JDC1 Cleans Up With Metallica appeared first on...
Highly experienced production designer Travis Shirley has recently been turning to the GLP fixture portfolio in order to meet some of his more demanding challenges. Having used the company’s new revolutionary JDC1 hybrid strobe with his long time charge, Enrique Iglesias, he has now become the first major adopter of GLP’s new Force 120 high […] The post GLP’s High Speed Force 120 Earns An Array Of...
With his controversial stage persona Marilyn Manson will always be a major box office attraction, and his latest tour has been no exception. The band embarked on a series of pan-European arena and theatre shows at the end of last year followed by a US tour with French LD, Nicolas Riot (of Chirac Design) — […] The post Nico Riot Turns Marilyn Manson’s Request For GLP Hybrid Strobe Into Magic...