ASHEVILLE, NC – For Warren Haynes’ 30th Christmas Jam, Bandit Lites donated the use of more than 170 fixtures and 500 feet of truss. LD Preston Hoffman used the Bandit-supplied GLP X4, GLP X4S, GLP X4 Bar 20s, Robe BMFLs, Robe Pointes, Elation SixPar 100, Claypaky Sharpys and Elation CuePix WW2 blinders to light Haynes along with Grace Potter, Dave Grohl, Eric Church, Jamey Johnson, Gov’t Mule and Joe Bonamassa.
RENO, NV – Beach Boys singer/songwriter Brian Wilson is spreading musical cheer across the country on “The Christmas Album Tour.” LD Chris Stuba’s Bandit Lites-supplied rig included High End Systems’ SolaFrame 2000 fixtures, which Stuba credited for low noise, color mixing, optics and animation.
Tenth Avenue North is on their Decade The Halls tour, which features a decade-by-decade cornucopia of Christmas music.
Castle – Kolpa Music Festival in Slovenia was staged over four days at a beautiful site near the Kolpa River, close to the Croatian border.
Critically acclaimed English musician and singer-songwriter Steven Wilson is about to wrap the 2018 leg of his To the Bone Tour, named for his fifth studio album. Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the production
Over 840 Claypaky fixtures were used on the sixteenth Junior Eurovision Song Contest (JESC) final which was broadcast live from Minsk
Lighting designer Pablo Gutierrez utilized 52 x of Robe’s popular Pointe multi-functional moving lights at the core of his fabulous looking lighting design for the launch of Mexican singer Fey’s new ‘Desnuda’ (Nude) tour!
London based lighting designer Dan Saggars had the opportunity to put Elation’s new Artiste Picasso™ LED profile to the test on the new drama, Distance, at the Park Theatre in London.
CORAL GABLES, FL – Max Painter, creative director of NightGarden, an illuminated walk-through attraction drawing holiday crowds to the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden outside Miami, turned to Chris Werner for a lighting assist that includes 360 Chauvet Professional fixtures, including COLORado, COLORdash and STRIKE units. 4Wall supplied these and other fixtures for the 48-universe light and video display.
MUSCAT, Oman – To help celebrate the recent expansion of Muscat International Airport, Belgium-based Visual Solutions provided an architectural projection-mapping display that made use of three disguise gx 2 media servers and a disguise 4x4pro media server with VFC cards. The inaugural ceremony used the airport’s recently-added second terminal as a projection surface.
COLUMBUS, GA – Cascade Hills Church upgraded its 2,500-seat sanctuary with a new lighting system provided by Todd Buckner, owner of Absolute Audio Systems, which is also based in Columbus, GA. The upgraded rig includes eight Platinum Beam 5R Extreme moving head beam lights, nine Chorus Line 16 LED battens and four Fuze Wash Z350 single source PAR moving head luminaires.
We’ve caught a few acts on tour in the UK this autumn using Kinesys automation kit in many formats to accomplish a diversity of creative tasks … here’s a quick round up of some of the action.