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Casper Performs High above the Hurricane with GLP

Between June 16 and 18, one of the highlights of the German festival season took place in Scheessel, northern Germany, with the staging of the Hurricane Festival. The enormously versatile German rapper Casper, who rocked the River Stage on Saturday night, was one of the headliners of the festival alongside Muse, Kraftklub, Die Ärzte, Placebo, and Queens of the Stone Age. Thanks to a mobile bridge that stretched almost five meters above the heads of the audience, a special festival moment was created that will live in the memory for a long time.Read More »Casper Performs High above the Hurricane with GLP

Lighting Muse’s ‘Will of the People’ Tour

Designers Jesse Lee Stout and Sooner Routhier were looking for a way to visually express the band’s desire for a show design that would convey a narrative of “an extreme group of vigilantes resetting the world to ground zero” (Stout) with a “rig that feels like the skeletal nature of a post-apocalyptic, near-future world” (Routhier). Upstaging provided 122 CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M fixtures, most of which were in a horseshoe configuration around the stage, with others under the plexiglass stage. “They are one of the main workhorses of the show,” Routhier says, noting the importance of reining in their intensity through most of the show and limiting the full intensity blasts of light to “only a couple times in the show” so they will deliver maximum impact.

From “Designer Spotlight,” PLSN, May 2023, page 34

Claypaky Xtylos Deliver Post-Apocalyptic Look for Muse’s ‘Will of the People’

British rock band Muse has hit the road with its North American tour, Will of the People, on which more than 150 Claypaky Xtylos enhance the band’s post-apocalyptic staging non-stop. The tour is named for the band’s most recent ninth studio album, which gave Muse its seventh consecutive No. 1 on the UK albums chart and topped Billboard’s Alternative and Rock Albums tallies. The Will of the People tour began in Chicago’s United Center on February 25 and concluded the U.S. portion of the tour on April 20 in Salt Lake City, after which it will move on to Europe.Read More »Claypaky Xtylos Deliver Post-Apocalyptic Look for Muse’s ‘Will of the People’

The All-New Laser Show

Chris Lose makes the case for the newest kid on the block: laser source lighting fixtures. With some expert advice and thoughtful advice, he suggests looking at navigating these new fixtures’ unique considerations.

Coachella 2014, held in Indio, CA April 11-13 and April 18-20, featured headliners Muse, Arcade Fire and more than 180 other acts. It also included a variety of newly developed lighting fixtures. Pictured here is the Outdoor Theater, where Visions Lighting provided 36 Nexus 4x4 panels from Chauvet Professional. Photo by Gilbert Baghramian.

New Gear Lights Stars in the Desert at Coachella 2014

INDIO, CA – The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, staged here over two weekends April 11-13 and April 18-20, featured headliners Muse, Arcade Fire and more than 180 other acts. In the third year of its double-weekend format, Coachella has not only proven to be a success on the balance sheet — tickets for 2014 sold out within three hours — the festival continues to offer 90,000 daily visitors fresh music along with the element of surprise. It’s also become an early-season proving ground of sorts for a variety of lighting fixtures.

LD Oli Metcalfe on tour with MUSE, photo by Steve Jennings

Oli Metcalfe, LD for MUSE

The British trio, Muse — including Matthew Bellamy (lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards), Christopher Wolstenholme (bass, vocals, keyboards, rhythm guitar) and drummer/percussionist/synthesist Dominic Howard, with the addition of keyboardist/percussionist Morgan Nicholls on their live performances — offer an engaging blend of electronica, metal, classical and space rock.