VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – Jeremy Lechterman and Jackson Gallagher from design firm FragmentNine specified Robe fixtures for country singer Keith Urban’s current world tour in support of his 10th album, Graffiti U. The tour launched in mid-June and has an extensive run through North America until early November. Urban then hops the Pacific for a run of shows in Australia in January and February, 2019.
The 2018 Fantasia Festival featured the giant Owl
MILWAUKEE, WI – Last year’s 40th Anniversary Tour was by no means a farewell tour for iconic 70’s/80’s rock band Foreigner. It’s now been 41 years since their debut album, and the band hit the road again in June, kicking off a 30-show “Juke Box Heroes” U.S. tour. LD Dan Lastovka has updated the classic rock design from last year’s tour with Elation Rayzor 360Z LED beam moving effects fixtures.
KANSAS CITY – Before Aron Altmark, creative director of Visual Endeavors, crafted the looks for Logic’s “Bobby Tarantino vs Everybody” tour, he customized the Avolites Ai servers that he uses in his visual workshop. For the tour, there are also two servers for full backup capabilities. Each has an Ai Bondi and Notch Playback license attached.
LAS VEGAS – Old pros and golfing newbies are invited to tee up at the 2018 PLSN/FOH Parnelli Classic, set for Oct. 18 at the Rhodes Ranch Golf Club in Las Vegas this fall. It’s a great way to meet and network with the current leaders of our industry. The three teams with the lowest scores will be awarded trophies, and the one team with the highest score won’t go home empty-handed either. As per tradition, they’ll get tennis or badminton racquets.
AUSTIN, TX – The 32-city North American leg of Erasure’s World Be Gone tour features a design by LD Matt Waterfield. He puts close to 230 fixtures supplied by Christie Lites through their paces, using a ChamSys MagicQ MQ80 with a MagicQ Extra Wing for control. On the 10-universe World Be Gone tour, Waterfield is flying most of his fixtures on midstage and upstage truss, using them for down lighting and specials.
T-Mobile Home Run Derby during MLB All-Star Week, on July 16th showed off some amazing projection mapping on the infield.
The Dave Matthews Band is digging deep in their catalog to serve up some old school favorites
Thousands of students descended on the University of Tennessee for CHIC, a five day centering on worship, transformation and fun
Hippotizer Karst Media Servers delivering cutting-edge projection mapping to huge crowds attending Tall Ships celebration.
For the main French National Day celebrations in the center of Paris on July 14th, a spectacular lighting and video display was presented drawing heavily on the AQUA range.
OMAHA, NE – Indie pop/folk rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise are touring with High End Systems’ SolaFrame 750s as the focal point of their production. Described as Kings of Leon meets Modest Mouse, the North Carolina band is selling out venues on their 2018 tour, “How to: Friend, Love, Freefall.” Cour Design’s Erik Anderson and Gordon Droitcour of Nashville designed the show, specifying the SolaFrame 750 LED automated fixtures from tour vendor 4Wall Entertainment for its wide range of features in a compact unit.