DORTMUND, Germany – For Udo Lindenberg’s Live 2019 tour, the veteran rocker, artist and activist toured his native Germany, energizing audiences with a spectacle that included up to 50 performers on stage. LD Günter Jäckle included 22 Vari-Lite VL6000 Beams in the rig, crediting the fixture as “retro,” but also “modern.”
PRAGUE – For Let It Roll 2019, which drew 25,000 to Milovice Airfield, a former Soviet-era airbase north of Prague in the Czech Republic, a lighting rig with nearly 100 Robe fixtures adorned the main stage, a.k.a. Mothership, during the festival, devoted to drum and bass sounds. They included Pointes, MegaPointes, Spiiders, Tarrantulas, CitySkape Xtremes and BMFL Blades, all supplied by JESA.
Born out of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1993, the Sziget Festival has blossomed into one of the largest events of its kind in Europe.
Chart-topping, multi-award-winning and massively popular Mexican singer Ana Gabriel hit the road on her “Estamos A Tiempo” (We Are On Time) world tour last year at the National Auditorium in Mexico City
This year many thousands of fans descended on Middlesbrough to enjoy the annual BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend music festival.
CAMDEN, NJ – Halestorm teamed up with Alice Cooper for a 20-city co-headlining tour this summer with a lighting rig provided by Bandit Lites. The rig included 52 fixtures from Chauvet Professional, which added intensity to LD Craig Richter’s powerful looks.
WEST BRADENTON, FL – Bayside Community Church’s new facility in West Bradenton features an 800-capacity main auditorium. Crown Design Group provided a lighting system for the new facility that included fixtures from ADJ and also its sister company, Elation Professional.
SINGAPORE – Singapore’s 54th National Day Celebrations had an added significance this year, as the country also commemorated its bicentennial milestone on Aug. 9. More than 600 of the 1,050 lights that were used were Claypaky fixtures, including HY B-EYE K25 (262), Scenius Unico (208) and Mythos 2 (132), with two grandMA3 full consoles used for control.
OSHKOSH, WI – The once-every-five-years International Pathfinder Camporee puts Christian worship on a festival-sized scale, drawing 55,000 Seventh-day Adventist youth ministers and young church members from around the world to Oshkosh, WI. Bandit Lites supplied the lighting for the six-day event.
PYDNA, GERMANY – Lighting designer Thomas Gerdon has been working on Nature One for over 15 years and has designed the lighting for the festival’s… Read More »All Proteus™ Moving Head Rig for Germany’s Nature One
Australia’s popular Spin Off festival returned in 2019 with an anticipated audience of over 20,000 at the massive 84m x 64m mainstage tent
IPSWITCH, U.K. – Ed Sheeran’s Divide world tour, which ran from March 16, 2017 to Aug. 26, 2019, raked in a reported $775.5 million from… Read More »Ed Sheeran ‘Divide’ Tour Wraps Up; Sets All-Time Record as Top-Grossing Tour