“It’s been a while, but we’re going on tour in November and can’t wait to see you again.” The multi Brit-Award winning band did indeed get a good look at their legion of loyal fans as they blew the roof off 13 sold-out venues, thanks to a dynamic lightshow run on ChamSys MagicQ MQ250M console that featured ample amounts of engaging audience lighting.Read More »ChamSys Helps Kaiser Chiefs Engage Crowds on UK Tour
Elation Professional is pleased to announce that Relation Lighting Agency (RLA) has been appointed the new sales representative for Elation Professional products in California, Nevada, and Hawaii. Headed by lighting industry veteran Robert Pullman, the new sales rep firm boasts decades of industry experience and will draw on that expertise to represent the entire Elation lighting portfolio, including Obsidian Control Systems and Magmatic atmospheric effects.Read More »Relation Lighting Agency (RLA) New Elation Sales Rep for California, Nevada, and Hawaii
John M. Flaws of La Grange Highlands, IL, co-owner of Windy City Music, a music retail business that branched out into entertainment lighting and sound systems sales and rentals, recently passed away. He was 58.
“Billboard” magazine recently ranked tours around the world by total ticket sales from November 2021 through October 2022. The Showtime section within PLSN’s January 2023 issue focuses on the lighting, staging and video production teams and equipment supporting these tours.
The results are in for the 2023 ESTA Board of Directors election. Incumbent Todd Spencer of Ventana Capital Investments will return as President, and incumbent Joe Aldridge will return as Individual Director. Hannah R. D’Amico of IATSE has been elected as the new Organizational Director. She will succeed Alan M. Rowe, who reached his term limit.Read More »ESTA Announces the 2023 Board of Directors Election Results
The readers of PLSN have spoken and we are pleased to announce the Regional Winners of the PLSN Hometown Heroes who are now the finalists for the Parnelli Hometown Hero – Lighting Company of the Year Award. PLSN readers voted for their choice of the six top regional lighting companies in North America—one for each of five U.S. regions, and a sixth for all of Canada. This narrowed the field from 36 to six regional winners, who will appear on the Parnelli Awards ballot. The ballot goes live Jan. 16, 2023 for the 21st Parnelli Awards voting. The winner will receive the Parnelli Award for Hometown Hero – Lighting Company of the Year at the Parnelli Awards ceremony on April 14th in Anaheim, CA.Read More »Regional Winners Announced for PLSN Hometown Hero
The 10,000-seat capacity Bilbao Arena this year for the first time hosted the 2022 FIBA Basketball Champions League Final 4 season-ending tournament with over 100 Robe moving lights highlighting the action for a venue packed with enthusiastic basketball fans plus a huge, televised audience. In charge of coordinating lighting for the event was Iker Gartzia from one of the region’s leading rental companies, Abs Fluge Euskadi S.L (Fluge) which was the official supplier of lighting, sound, and video for this high-profile event. They were working directly for FIBA.Read More »Robe in the Spotlight for the 2022 Basketball Champions League Final Four
This month’s Buyer’s Guide covers lighting consoles from a variety of manufacturers and distributors. Click here for details on control desks from ADJ Lighting, Altman Lighting, Avolites, Baxter Controls, Inc., Blizzard Lighting, ChamSys, ETC, High End Systems, MA Lighting, MEGA-LITE, Obsidian Control Systems, Pathway Connectivity, Vari-Lite, and Vista by Chroma-Q.
Live entertainment lighting and trucking company Upstaging marked its 50th anniversary in 2022. During the past half century co-founders, brothers Robert and Don Carone, and Robin Shaw, joined in 1979 by John Huddleston, have turned Upstaging from a garage-based pioneer into a stalwart of the industry. The four share with PLSN some of their reflections growing a company alongside the concert touring industry—the beginnings, the milestones, and what they hope people know about Upstaging today.
Indie rock bands Joywave and I Don’t Know How but They Found Me (iDKHOW for short) recently completed a 23-date co-headlining tour of the USA backed by an LED video wall system comprised of ADJ Vision Series panels. The impressive playback system featured a large central rectangular screen, flanked on both sides by two smaller vertical columns of panels. This configuration allowed the performance space to be encompassed by video graphics, which were utilized extensively by both bands to create a wide variety of visual effects that enhanced the aesthetic of their performances.Read More »Indie Rockers Joywave and iDKHOW Hit The Road With ADJ Vision Series VS3 LED Video Panels
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For the U.S leg of Phoebe Bridgers’ 2022 world tour, Gateway Studios & Production of St Louis provided LD Spike Kienholz Inglis of Spike Design with a Robe moving light rig. The setup included 24 MegaPointes, 24 Spiiders, 16 Tetra1s and six FORTES.