DJ BoBo is a phenomenon. After 30 years on stage and 15 studio albums behind him – many of them gold and platinum – the Swiss artist is still selling out major venues. In 2023 there will be another anniversary tour (which is already almost completely sold out) with Evolut30n. Starting in May, 56 GLP XDC1 IP Hybrid strobes will travel with him. The two-and-a-half-week tour rehearsals – including...
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...
Ask Davy Sherwin, Snow Patrol’s lighting designer for the past two decades, what three attributes a fixture needs to exhibit in order to earn a place in his tool kit, and he will probably reply: “Color, color… and color!” When GLP’s next generation strobe hybrid, the XDC1 IP Hybrid, returned to the LCR Lighting warehouse in Blackburn after making its auspicious debut on Ed Sheeran’s +–=÷x tour...
Between the months of May and September, Berlin band SEEED were busy playing open-air and festival dates in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (including eight concerts in their home town alone). And wherever the 14-piece band performs, a good atmosphere is assured. LD Timo Martens has been with the band for 22 years, and both musicians and crew are like family to him. On the other hand, 16 GLP...
Ed Sheeran’s long-term production designer, Mark Cunniffe not only delivered his most expansive set design ever for the current +–=÷x (Mathematics) stadium world tour, but almost certainly his most innovative, with its roofless, in the round, multi-mast presentation. It also marked the debut of 162 of GLP’s new hybrid fixture, the XDC1 IP Hybrid, purposely designed for the tour and developed over...