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Bucking the Trends with Nine Inch Nails

If you are designing a Nine Inch Nails show, it’s important to stay current with the latest trends in concert looks—and then consider doing a 180. “We wanted to be on our singular path of anti-technology and didn’t want gratuitous visuals,” says Paul Guthrie of Toss Film & Design, explaining the absence of a video component in the production and the inclusion of vintage PAR fixtures among the LED light sourced fixtures. Instead of video, there’s a torn gauze backdrop for textured shadow effects, affectionately referred to as “the dirty diaper.”

Video of the Week: Women in Lighting // Celine Royer // Lighting Designer, Director, and Programmer

Celine Royer is a lighting designer, lighting director, and programmer who loves music and creating shows that appeal both to the audience and to the bands she works with. She has had an unusual path into lighting, switching from being a hairdresser and a singer in a band to a career as a lighting technician in France. She moved to the United States so that she could work with bigger shows and acts than the ones that were available to her in France. She has now worked with many different bands and acts including Jennifer Lopez, Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda and on Rupaul’s Drag Race for the World Tour and the Vegas residency.

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Top Tours of 2022

“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.

Regional Winners Announced for PLSN Hometown Hero

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

Lighting a Concert, and Telling a Story

For Swedish rock band Ghost’s Imperatour trek, Brazil-based LD Erich Bertti took on the challenge of highlighting a story narrative, not just a band and its songs. “I told [Ghost frontman Tobias Forge] that if I close my eyes listening to Ghost, I imagined it as being a theater rock show with all the concepts of the character creation that he had. The whole storytelling behind the clergy, and all that stuff. I said I could easily see that almost as a musical. We’re telling a story more than doing a concert. It was exactly what he was looking for.”

Parnelli Awards Nominations Close This Friday, Dec. 16th. Don’t Miss Your Last Chance to Nominate!

Nominations are coming to a close for the next Parnelli Awards ceremony, to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA on Friday, April 14, 2023, during the NAMM Show. The deadline for Parnelli nominations is Dec. 16, 2022, 5 p.m. PST. Anyone can now nominate live event professionals and companies who exemplify the best of the best in our industry for a prestigious Parnelli Award.

Voting for Your Favorite Hometown Hero – Lighting Company Closes Friday, Dec. 16th!

The voting for the Parnelli Hometown Hero – Lighting Company of the Year Award is now open. PLSN readers get to vote for the six top regional lighting companies in North America—one for each of five U.S. regions, and a sixth for all of Canada. These votes will narrow the field from 36 to six regional winners, who will then appear on the Parnelli Awards ballot for a second round of voting. The winner will receive the Parnelli Award for Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year at the awards ceremony in Anaheim, CA.Read More »Voting for Your Favorite Hometown Hero – Lighting Company Closes Friday, Dec. 16th!

R90 Lighting Covers Seattle and Beyond with Elation LED Lighting

Bustling lighting rental house covers projects from intimate corporate to large-scale festivals

 

One of Seattle’s largest lighting rental houses, R90 Lighting, often turns to Elation Professional products to light a wide scope of projects and has recently added more Elation fixtures to its rental inventory. The concert and event lighting design firm emphasizes the latest in LED technology in its inventory of stage lighting fixtures, a principle the company has held since its founding 10 years ago. R90’s new acquisition includes an LED package of Fuze MAX Profile™, Fuze Wash FR™, Proteus Rayzor 760™, Artiste Picasso™ and Paladin Panel™ luminaires.Read More »R90 Lighting Covers Seattle and Beyond with Elation LED Lighting

Lighting Consoles

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.

Lauv’s Electro-Pop Playground

American electro-pop artist Ari Staprans Leff, who performs under the stage name Lauv, is currently on his All 4 Nothing Tour with dates running into December in the U.S. Designers Parker Genoway and Cory FitzGerald of Silent House, and Lighting Programmer/Director Will Flavin, spoke with PLSN about the lighting and video of the production, supplied by LMG.

Nine Inch Nails Tour 2022

Nine Inch Nails played a limited number of make-up headlining dates on their spring and fall 2022 tour. PLSN caught up with Toss Film & Design’s Paul “Arlo” Guthrie about his work as designer, director, and programmer for the NIN tour. We also checked in with Lighting Technician Matthew “Matt” Schiller for some fixture details in the design, with lighting supplied by tour vendor Upstaging.

Ghost – A Design Like None Other

The Swedish rock band Ghost recently wrapped up the third, North American leg of its Imperatour tour for which Brazil-based Lighting Designer, Erich Bertti was once again back designing along with the band’s lead singer Tobias Forge. Also returning to support the Ghost tour and Bertti was Senior Account Manager, Steven “Creech” Anderson and Madison, TN-based Premier Global Production, providing lighting, rigging, truss and crew. Bertti and Anderson fill PLSN in on the design and their working relationship for Ghost’s tour.