The Latin Grammy winning artist, Colombian singer and songwriter Karol G, has been wowing her fans with her “$trip Love Tour” in 2022. PLSN got all the details of the visually stunning show speaking with the tour design team—Creative Director and Show Designer Travis Shirley of Blank Wall Creative, Lighting Designer/Programmer Chris Smith, and Lighting Director Ryan King.
Nine Inch Nails played a limited number of make-up headlining dates on their spring and fall 2022 tour. PLSN caught up with Toss Film & Design’s Paul “Arlo” Guthrie about his work as designer, director, and programmer for the NIN tour. We also checked in with Lighting Technician Matthew “Matt” Schiller for some fixture details in the design, with lighting supplied by tour vendor Upstaging.
Sofi Tukker, named from a mashup of the duo Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern, are currently on their Wet Tennis Tour, which runs into 2023.… Read More »Sofi Tukker ‘Wet Tennis Tour 2022’
San Francisco rock band Train is currently headlining its AM Gold Tour with support acts Jewel and Blues Traveler. PLSN catches up with Lighting Designer/Director Joel Wojcik, who is marking his fifth tour with the band. He has done some smaller scale design tours with them, but this is the first tour he has been given total control of all the elements.
Third Eye Blind is celebrating a quarter-century on their “Summer Gods: 25 Years in the Blind” tour, crisscrossing the U.S. with Taking Back Sunday and opener Hockey Dad. Chris Denholm, production and lighting designer for the tour worked into the set tall rectangular pods and risers, all outfitted with 300 straight birch limbs, 200 forked alder limbs, and 150 multi-branched birch twigs.
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The Justice World Tour, which was rescheduled from its launch last summer, started Feb. 18, 2022, in San Diego, CA and runs into 2023, with… Read More »Justin Bieber ‘Justice’ Tour 2022-23
Designers Tamlyn Wright and Jon Kusner’s game plan The annual NFL Honors returned on Thursday February 10th, live and in-person, during the run up… Read More »New Design Returns NFL Honors to the End Zone
Travis Shirley shares design insights on the P FKN R production Latin superstar/reggaeton artist Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, known as Bad Bunny, recently put on… Read More »Bad Bunny Fills a Stadium in Tribute to Puerto Rico
Country artists make up a big portion of the touring acts out there, being among the first to head out in 2021. Identifying a handful… Read More »Country on the Road
Annie Erin Clark is the artist who performs as St. Vincent. PLSN tapped into the creative minds behind the design of the Daddy’s Home Tour,… Read More »St. Vincent Daddy’s Home Tour
Celebrating 25 Years of Jagged Little Pill PLSN caught the Alanis Morissette 2021 World Tour: Celebrating 25 Years of Jagged Little Pill at the T-Mobile… Read More »Alanis Morissette 2021 Tour