The “Tante Mia Tanzt” open-air festival is the largest electro event of its kind in north-western Germany, this year attracting around 20,000 visitors to the Stoppelmarkt grounds in Vechta, Lower Saxony.
Gary Numan took to the road in April 2022 with a moody and ethereal lighting design created by award winning LA-based designer Dustin Snyder. An essential objective of the design was to ensure that the fans could clearly see Numan and his band’s expressive faces from all parts of the room and also on camera.
On May 12, the historic Palais-Royal in the heart of Paris was the site of an EDM dance fest—“Monumental Tour Europe”—with a crowd of 2,000 raving to pulsating beats and bass drops beneath a canopy of powerful beam effects from Elation Proteus Excalibur moving heads.
Originally scheduled to take place in 2021, the postponed ‘Peacock In Concert – Illusion Of Time’ event was finally held at the 6200-capacity AFAS Live in Amsterdam earlier this month.
Ghost Train Brewing Company is long on atmosphere with its spacious, breezy laid back décor, a beer list that stretches out for miles, and frothy house-made beverage like its Kettle Sour and Gulf Coast IPA that are so tasty they’re even sold at national chains.
In 2010, The Wonder Years released The Upsides, followed a year later by Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing.
Theatres on the Bay, Singapore’s national performing arts centre and one of the world’s busiest arts centres, has invested in 12 x new MA Lighting grandMA3 consoles.
The incredible 2CELLOS duo of Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser is currently playing their Dedicated world tour – billed as their ‘final’ as 2CELLOS, the format in which they shot to fame and prominence in 2011 with lighting designed by their long-term LD, Crt Birsa.
Each year, Arlington Texas welcomes the Cotton Bowl Classica, an American College Football game. On December 31, 2021, the Cincinnati Bearcats faced the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Being well versed in music definitely helps in the lighting design process. Some might even say it’s absolutely essential to driving a show that moves fans on multiple levels. The power of this musicality is amped up even further when a designer is able to exchange ideas on a song- by-song basis with the lead singer of a red hot band.
