The Beatsteaks, one of Germany’s most successful punk rock bands, have been out on their Please tour, in support of the album of the same name, since spring 2024. This tour has continued in 2025. Lighting designer Joanna Ossolinska, who has worked with the band for several years, developed a completely new lighting concept for the tour – with some deliberate references to previous tours: The...
The Ehrlich Brothers have been delighting a wide audience with their spectacular live shows for over a decade. Their new production, Diamonds, premiered in mid-November in Dortmund’s Westfalenhalle before visiting the largest arenas in Germany, where they have been presenting the best of their most popular illusions. With the help of exceptional lighting and stage technology, the successful...
Pitbull, the Grammy Award-winning American rapper, singer, actor and entrepreneur, recently wowed audiences at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas resort hotel, picking up incredible reviews. The task of adapting his recent Party After Dark tour for a show renamed Vegas After Dark fell to his long-term creatives, production manager Victor Martinez and creative director Yamil Charif (of YC3 Design). Charif...
The 60th edition of the Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM) saw a return to the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas – hosted by country legend Reba McEntire for the 18th time. Co-lighting designers Michael Berger and Travis Hagenbuch both have a long association with the event, starting out as interns many years ago. “It’s been a nice full-circle experience working with Travis in this...
At the recent Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 (JESC) in Madrid, the lighting design by Raphaël Demonthy (Sunrise Studios GmbH) was based around finely tuned technology from GLP, which created enormous impact under demanding conditions. In the Caja Mágica, a well-known tennis arena in Madrid with a capacity of 12,000 seats, more than 250 GLP fixtures ensured that the performances of each of the...
When the highly anticipated stage version of the blockbuster film The Devil Wears Prada debuted in Chicago in the summer of 2022, it was to mixed reviews. By the time it arrived in London’s West End at the end of 2024 it was with an entirely fresh production, including a new creative team and an original score from Elton John. Paule Constable, who lit the show in Chicago, had praised GLP’s then...
The OMR Festival in Hamburg is growing continuously. The format, which was launched in front of 200 guests in 2011 – at that time still under the name Online Marketing Rockstars Conference – now fills the entire Messe Hamburg, as well as numerous other locations in the Hanseatic city with a wealth of side events. This makes the OMR Festival the largest gathering of executives from the digital...
With the release of the impression X5 wash light, German manufacturer GLP – German Light Products provided one of the most high-profile product launches of the past year. Since then, designers around the world have praised the outstanding color quality and color mixing with the special GLP Lime, as well as the excellent output across the entire color spectrum. At this year’s Prolight + Sound in...
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...