Among lighting designer Steve Bewley’s high profile roster of artists, is champion of hip-hop, Dizzee Rascal — in a relationship dating back eight years. Over the course of his long career, Bewley has turned to successive generations of GLP’s LED moving head solutions, starting with the original impression 90, before moving onto Volkslicht and X4/X4 […]
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Vastly experienced LD, Cosmo Wilson, has been lighting Aerosmith’s shows since 2012, working within a genre with which he is entirely familiar. Having provided stage lighting for many of the world’s most famous rock bands over three decades his pedigree is unparalleled. Thus, when Aerosmith announced their Aero-Vederci Baby farewell tour, he was once again […]
The 36th edition of the MTV Video Music Awards was broadcast live from the Forum in Inglewood, California recently. While Kendrick Lamar, Bruno Mars and The Weeknd were among the nominees for Video Of The Year (Lamar picking up the main award), the show itself featured performances from other members of pop royalty, including Miley […]
The Joanne World Tour is the fifth headlining tour by Lady Gaga, in support of her fifth studio album, Joanne. When the curtain was raised for the opening show in Vancouver last month, the audience was awed by a spectacular set and visual concept masterminded by production and lighting designer, Seven Design Works’ LeRoy Bennett. The inventory comprises over […]
Heading the product roster at the show will be the new JDC1 hybrid strobe. Designed in three sections, which can be controlled independently or as a complete synchronized unit, creating a new class of powerful strobe that goes way beyond the standard definition of a hybrid. Some 20 of them will feature in the overhead […]
The annual DPWK Deutscher Preis für Wirtschaftskommunikation (German Prize for Business Communication) gala award presentation took place recently in the casual surroundings of Berlin’s Columbiahalle rock venue (replacing the usual formal ‘black tie’ event). Known as Der Goldene Funke, the event was expertly lit by local lighting designer, Björn Hermann, working in conjunction with phase7 […]
SN Lighting handles sale of 26 LED heads to strategic market segment GLP Asia-Pacific has sold 26 of the company’s impression X4 L LED heads, all fitted with the company’s new top hats, to the National Theater of South Korea. The fixtures will be deployed on different shows within the theatre complex, initially Madangnori Nolbo […]
The Daimler AG booth was illuminated with the latest fixtures from GLP at the world’s most important trade fair for commercial transport and logistics, which took place in Hannover in late September. The world market leader in commercial vehicles presented 70 trucks, vans and buses from brands Mercedes-Benz, Fuso and Setra. The premieres were brought […]
GLP has announced the release of the upgraded 30 Watt version of their popular X4 atom fixture. Adding a new high power light source into the unit has doubled its brightness, and introduced greater optical efficiencies within the unit. At the same time, an additional 6-way PSU has been added to the product line up. […]
When award-winning German pop and R&B singer, Sarah Connor, started gearing up last autumn for her Muttersprache tour in the DACH countries, experienced LD and production designer, Bertil Mark, was entrusted with lighting design duties.“We first played a theatre tour and really liked the intimate feel,” he said. “So when we moved up to arenas […]