At the Glastonbury Festival, Shangri-La is a festival within a festival that is entirely dedicated to creativity, arts, and underground and independent culture – has been a special area for many years now. The sophisticated lighting set-up, for which lighting designer James R. Dickson from Elixir Lighting opted to use the Cameo OTOS® H5 and ZENIT® W600 SMD, played a major part in creating this atmosphere.
The CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M made over 100,000 pairs of eyeballs dance at Glastonbury this year. Playing a role for Saturday night headliners Coldplay, the motorized strobe-wash was used to create a seemingly endless flow of brilliant looks that captivated what was one of the largest crowds in the festival’s history. Supplied by Upstaging, the high-output IP65 rated fixtures were positioned throughout the rig by LD Shaheem Litchmore.
ChamSys consoles make themselves right at home in all sorts of FOH platforms. This was brilliantly evident at Glastonbury 2023, as various models of the company’s products powered a wide variety of shows on over a dozen sites, from the Pyramid Stage, where Jason Hyne displayed his virtuosity on the MagicQ MQ250M Stadium console for Cat Stevens, blending soft washes with retro video images; to the Funkingham Palace, where David Howard used his MagicQ MQ250M to support relentless DJ Performances.Read More »ChamSys Versatility on Display at Glastonbury
They might not have been as common as flags at the 2023 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, but CHAUVET Professional fixtures seemed to be everywhere one looked at Worthy Farm during the world-famous event. The company’s products were used to add extra color and excitement to 17 of the festival’s stages. Included in the group were main attractions like the Pyramid, Greenpeace, Flying Bus and new Levels stages, as well as more specialized attractions like the Avalon Stage, nightclub-like Salon Carousel, The Hive Stage, Outside Circus Stage, and the San Remo Stage, an interzone for dreamers, visionaries and other revelers.Read More »The Many Hats of CHAUVET Professional at Glastonbury
Robe moving lights were in action across multiple stages at the 2023 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, including in three key ‘creative’ areas of the massive site at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset in the UK. These were the spectacular fire-breathing Arcadia Spider 360-degree arena, the eclectic, fabulous and funky Park Stage, one of the most popular Glasto zones, and the BBC Introducing stage which showcases some of the hottest rising music stars and some cool unique pop-up performances.Read More »Robe Catches the Spirit of Glastonbury 2023
It was hard to beat the magnitude of the star power at the 2023 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, but one dozen innovative Claypaky Skylos searchlights held their own against headlining acts on the Pyramid Stage, including the UK’s last live touring performance of Sir Elton John. Placed on the ground and producing super-concentrated beams of lights, the Skylos searchlights showed themselves to be extremely versatile fixtures that are more than simple searchlights, creating dense, solid beams of light and ever-greater light output. Read More »Claypaky Skylos Searchlights Light Up the Sky at Glastonbury Festival
Debi Moen has the inside scoop on all the where, what and who hitting the road for an incredibly busy touring season.
When she set out to design George Ezra’s 2022 arena and festival lighting rig, production designer Cate Carter didn’t need to look much further than… Read More »GLP’s Power and Versatility Animate George Ezra’s Production
American pop rock band LANY recently wrapped their 34-city Summer Forever tour with a lighting system supplied by Bandit Lites. The band, named as an acronym for Los Angeles and New York, is comprised of the duo Paul Jason Klein and Jake Clifford Goss. LANY boasts four studio albums, several EPs, more than 3.5 billion song streams, and over 750 million video views.Read More »Lighting Designer Ben Gilbert Shines a Light on LANY
The legendary Glastonbury Festival (Glasto) – one of the largest and most popular celebrations of contemporary music, art, and culture – returned with its glorious… Read More »Robe Enjoys Glorious Glastonbury 2022
Time may have passed, but all of the familiar sights and sounds at Glastonbury were there to make everyone feel at home. For many lighting… Read More »ChamSys Homecoming at Glastonbury
The Glastonbury Festival Circus Big Top tent hosted 30 different acts by a colorful assortment of aerialists, acrobats and other performers, many of them internationally… Read More »LD James Loudon Juggles Glastonbury Circus Acts with Help from Chauvet