Rick Astley – global 1980’s dance pop guru – who retired from the music industry in 1993 aged 27 with a string of foot-tappingly infectious and successful tunes to his name – is back on the road with a brand-new album.
LD Martin Kames took his passion for blending music and light a step further, when he teamed up with guitarist Bernth Brodträger to form CueStack, a band that intrepidly bridges the gap between sight and sound.
Grammy winning artist Chris Tomlin recently wrapped a fall Canadian tour with a lighting package crafted by Forge Designs and provided by Bandit Lites.
Popular electronic music star SoDown returned home last month to celebrate the release of his new single, “Stand Up Feat,” with back-to-back release party shows at the Aggie and Fox Theatres.
The 2018 Dreambeach festival, staged near the charming fishing town of Villaricos in Andalucía, Spain, is the largest dance music festival in Spain!
NASHVILLE – For Jake Owens’ May 2018-Nov. 2018 “Life’s Whatcha Make It” tour, LD and production manager Chris Nathan used a dozen of Elation’s Artiste DaVinci moving LED spots as an integral part of the tour’s visual design, adapting the fixtures to the needs of the show as it moved from sheds and baseball stadiums in the summer to indoor arenas during the fall.
LONDON – British singer-songwriter Tom Odell has been touring U.K. and European venues with a lighting design from Joe Beardsmore that includes Signify’s VL10 BeamWash fixtures. Beardsmore credited the fixtures for their brightness, beam quality and color. The tour continues in the U.K., Europe and North America in 2019, supporting Odell’s latest album, Jubilee Road.
High End Systems’ Sola Series LED fixtures were “the meat of the rig” for a main stage at the 2018 Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, TX.
NEW YORK – Tinga Tinga Tales – The Musical has been delighting young audiences with Kenyan stories for children and a lighting design by Herrick Goldman that includes Chauvet Professional fixtures supplied by WorldStage. There are seven Maverick MK2 Spots, 13 MK2 Wash units and eight COLORado 2-Quad Zooms lighting the Off Broadway production at New Victory Theater in NYC.
Danish alt rockers Nephew – one of the most popular, successful and critically acclaimed bands in Denmark – announced at the end of 2017 that they were reuniting in 2018 after a four-year hiatus
WeChat, one of the world’s most popular mobile apps and social networks, held their inaugural We Chat Mini Game Developer Conference this month at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, CA.
Leading theatre lighting designer Herrick Goldman recently lit a Cape Rep Theatre production of the hit musical “Mamma Mia” with some help from Elation fixtures