Maggie Rogers, the Grammy nominated singer/songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist, is touring with Lighting Designers Dan Hadley & Tess Falcone and Lighting Director Ali “Blue” Allison. Along the way, they talked to PLSN about working with the artist for “The Feral Joy Tour” and how the design supports the artist.
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Stars gathered at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena for Love Rising, a benefit concert for Tennessee Equality Project, Inclusion Tennessee, OUTMemphis, and The Tennessee Pride Chamber. Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the evening of joy and dancing, where performances included Allison Russell, Maren Morris, Sheryl Crow, Amanda Shires, Brittany Howard, Hozier, Jake Wesley Rogers, Jason Isbell, Joy Oladokun, Julien Baker, Mya Byrne, The Rainbow Coalition Band, and YOLA.Read More »Bandit and Eric Cathcart Light ‘Love Rising’: Let Freedom Sing (And Dance)
A significant quantity of ADJ Focus Profile, Vizi Beam 12RX, and Focus Flex automated luminaires were used to create an impressive atmosphere last month for a huge hardstyle dance event held at the Autotron exhibition center close to ‘s-Hertogenbosch in The Netherlands. Vroeger Was Alles Beter (which translates to ‘Everything Used To Be Better’) focuses on classic hard dance music and this special edition dubbed ‘The Man With The Golden Classics’ was headlined by one of the scene’s most prolific artists, Headhunterz. The sold-out event, which attracted a crowd of 8000, ran all day from 12:30pm through to 12:00am. It included a solo set from Headhunterz in the early evening and then closed with a 1.5 hour ‘vs’ set between the DJ and his musical partner Wildstylez.Read More »More Than 100 ADJ Fixtures Create Impressive Atmosphere at ‘Vroeger Was Alles Beter 2023’
The Refracted Lightstand™ is a new, original product available from ACME Lighting, that is more than just a light stand but a stunning visual product unto itself. With pixel mapping capabilities, the Refracted Lightstand features dozens of macros and speeds, you can create thousands of colorful moving images.
Drag Race Belgique, a Belgian French-language reality television series based on the American series RuPaul’s Drag Race, has been using PROLIGHTS’ fixtures for their studio… Read More »PROLIGHTS Adds Extra Glow to Belgium’s DragRace
Lighting Designer Matt Smith (of Colourblind) again took full advantage of GLP’s fixture versatility when plotting the scenography for the American leg of RÜFÜS DU SOL’s tour. The Australian creative used a selection of GLP’s impression X5, JDC1, and impression X4 Bar 20, deploying them in mission-critical roles. All were sourced from Volt Lites in Los Angeles, where Smith is now partly based, and who have been supplying inventory to him since the band’s Live from Joshua Tree project back in 2019.Read More »Impression X5 the Key to RÜFÜS DU SOL’s Touring Rig
The ‘City Light-Up’ event was a celebration of light held alongside the Singapore Airlines’ Singapore Grand Prix, which culminated in theF1 night race around The Marina Bay Street Circuit in front of a capacity crowd of 300,000 spectators.
As part of this prestigious event, the Internal System and Technical Team at Hexogon Solution Pte Ltd was asked to provide lighting solutions for one of the City Light-Up locations, the beautiful – and huge – Conservatory buildings located at the Gardens by the Bay. They chose to use 20 Ayrton Domino LT fixtures which were supplied by Ayrton’s exclusive distributor for Singapore, Total Solution Marketing.Read More »Ayrton Lights up Singapore Skyline at Formula 1 Night Race