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Fredrik Stormby Brings Precision to the Design of Melodifestivalen Final 2024

The winners of the competition, Marcus & Martinus with “Unforgettable,” will go on to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, held in Malmö, Sweden. Credit: Daniel Bengtsson/Alamy Live News

PLSN caught up with the always innovative Fredrik Stormby from Stockholm-based Green Wall Designs shortly after the Melodifestivalen Final 2024, the live and broadcast Swedish competition that decided the country’s act that will move on to the 68th Eurovision Song Contest. Melodifestivalen 2024 was the 64th edition of the Swedish music competition Melodifestivalen, that was televised by Sweden’s Sveriges Television (SVT). The competition took place between February 3 and March 9, 2024. Stormby was the Lighting and Screens Designer for Melodifestivalen; a role he will also take for this year’s Eurovision being held this May in Malmö, Sweden.Read More »Fredrik Stormby Brings Precision to the Design of Melodifestivalen Final 2024

Online Exclusive: Seinfeld/Gaffigan Co-Headlining Tour Ends with “Experiment” in St. Louis

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Top-Level comedians have been increasingly getting out of those 3,000-5,000 seat theaters and trying their jokes out in arenas and stadiums. Two of the biggest – Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan – thought they would pair up in a co-headliner mini-tour of just four cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and St. Louis. For the last show in St. Louis, they experimented with leaving the full theater curtain package set on the truck and seeing if they could pull it off selling seats on the extreme sides and behind them to increase ticket sales further. Halifax-based Tour Tech East made it work.Read More »Online Exclusive: Seinfeld/Gaffigan Co-Headlining Tour Ends with “Experiment” in St. Louis

Tove Lo ‘Dirt Femme Tour 2023’

Mason Ford, Lighting Designer, Programmer and Director for Tove Lo’s “Dirt Femme” Tour, noted how the cloud set pieces were “the main element” at the start of his discussions with Creative Director Charlie Twaddle and the Tove Lo team. They opted to focus more on lighting than video—with no complaints from Ford—with a rig provided by Premier Global Production, the lighting vendor that had supported this artist’s “Sunshine Kitty” Tour in 2020. “When I heard from our Production Manager Tyler Young that we were going with [PGP], I definitely breathed a sigh of relief,” Ford said. “With Mark Donahue out as our Lighting Tech, and the gear they sent us out with, I didn’t have much to worry about.”

Vance Joy ‘In Our Own Sweet Time Tour 2023’

Vance Joy’s “In Our Own Sweet Time Tour” was Lighting Director Morgan Embry’s first chance to work with LD Sooner Routhier, which Embry called “an absolute pleasure,” noting that the design “has really served the show by allowing us to customize to each venue,” including arenas, stadiums, theaters, and amphitheaters. This tour was also the third where Embry worked alongside Lighting Crew Chief & Tech Quincy Stanton, whom Embry credited for expertise and leadership skill. She also gave kudos to programmers Dan Norman and PJ Carruth for “an excellent job of laying programming groundwork that would translate to clean cloning, regardless of which fixture types changed from show to show.”