Global music megastar Ed Sheeran returned to stadiums in 2022 with the Mathematics Tour; an all-new, in-the-round live experience featuring a Mark Cunniffe production design that included a colossal halo screen and six huge LED guitar picks flown around a revolving central stage.
Plateau Virtuel has upgraded to extended reality (XR) with the real-time compositing/media-server platform SMODE.
Poland’s new Cavatina Hall, which opened at the beginning of the year in the city of Bielsko-Biała, is the first concert hall in the country to be built and managed entirely from private funds.
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.
The Dutch capital city of Amsterdam is globally renowned as a cultural hotspot. A magnet for international tourists, the city’s nightlife is legendary and the range of cuisine available in its thriving restaurant scene rivals that of anywhere in the world.
Powersoft’s compact transducer, Mover, is at the heart of a new four-dimensional nightlife experience in Amsterdam which allows visitors to take a deep dive into the rich culture and educational history of electronic dance music from its roots to the present day.
Grammy Award winning, Puerto Rican mega-star Bad Bunny kicked off his 36-date sell out El Último Tour Del Mundo 2022 in February from the Ball Arena in Denver, CO.
The innovative sound system from DAS Audio makes its world debut at the legendary Lanxess Arena in Cologne (Germany), Forum Barcelona and the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia (Spain).
West Midlands, UK based Technical production specialist CPL (Central Presentations Ltd) supplied LED screens and all associated processing and vision control for two major stages – The Baillie Gifford Stage and Friends Stage – at the 2022 Hay Festival of Literature & Arts.
The impressive Mairie de Pantin (town hall) is being illuminated by a new Anolis LED lighting scheme designed by Rozenn Le Couillard from Noctiluca commissioned by the city council to tastefully highlight their newly renovated flagship building.
Copenhagen’s Bellevue Theatre asked lighting designer Mark P Jones to create a practical and versatile lighting scheme to facilitate their recent touring version of “A Column of Fire”, a musical production based on Ken Follet’s gripping work encapsulating politics, passion, religious divisions and other 16th-century.
Dutch pop acts Kris Kross Amsterdam, Maan, Rolf Sanchez, and others performed at the main stage of the first edition of Toverland LIVE! in Sevenum, The Netherlands, under Infinity and Showtec lights.
Clifford Antone was all about the blues. The son of Lebanese immigrants harbored a love for that strain of Americana and ended up building an empire around it, including its crown jewel: Antone’s, one of the seminal establishments of Austin, Texas’ famed 6th Street music-club row.
