Green Day continues The Saviors Tour 2024 with Claypaky Tambora Flash fixtures from Upstaging accompanying the band on their world tour. Tambora Flash is a unique hybrid fixture that acts simultaneously as a strobe, wash and blinder, specifically designed for use in a linear array. The band’s sold out global stadium tour will play over 60 dates.
Production/Lighting Designer Rob Sinclair is using Elation PROTEUS MAXIMUS LED Profile lighting fixtures for country star Zach Bryan’s ongoing ‘Quittin’ Time’ tour. The North American tour supports Bryan’s fifth studio album, “The Great American Bar Scene,” which was released in July.
Pearl Jam’s “Dark Matter World Tour 2024” features a production design by Spike Brant of Nimblist, a lighting design by Kille Knobel, and video/screens production by Rob Sheridan. The three creatives share their thoughts with PLSN.
Creative Director Patrick Woodroffe, Lighting Designer Terry Cook and Associate Lighting Designer/Lighting Director Ethan Weber give us a look at The Rolling Stones’ Hackney Diamonds Tour. Plus we get the vendor views from lighting provider Upstaging and video supplier Nighthawk Video.
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.
Lighting Designer Joel Reiff has tapped 28 Ayrton Domino Profiles as his “workhorse” fixture for Counting Crows’ 56-date summer tour across the country, which he programmed on a grandMA3 console. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton fixtures and MA lighting products in North America. The band, with guests Dashboard Confessional, kicked off their “Banshee Season Tour” in June in Omaha and will wrap with a show at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado on September 25. Upstaging provided the Dominos and grandMA3 consoles for the tour.Read More »Ayrton Dominos and grandMA3 Hit the Road with Counting Crows’ Summer ‘Banshee Season Tour’
Geodis Park, home of Nashville Soccer Club, staged its first ever concert recently, hosting Shania Twain’s one-off Queen of Me stadium show. The concert was lit by André Petrus, well known as an experienced programmer, to add dimension to a concept conceived by Creative Producer and Production Designer Cory FitzGerald, of Silent House Productions. To create a fully immersive experience for the artist, he selected large quantities of fixtures from GLP’s JDC family, as well as the powerful impression FR10 Bars.Read More »André Petrus Immerses Shania Twain in a World of JDC Hybrid Lights
Inglewood CA’s 70,000-capacity SoFi Stadium hosted the 39th annual WrestleMania with a blockbuster two-night event enveloped in LED screens and scenic video technology driven by an army of Green Hippo’s Hippotizer™ Boreal+ Media Servers.Read More »Hippotizer Boreal+ Media Servers Take on Epic ‘WrestleMania’ Visuals
PLSN catches up with Lighting Director and Programmer Amy Melia who is building her career on a solid foundation with education and hard work. She is busy pursuing her ‘Plan A’ and setting her sights on a long career in lighting.
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
Historical Morton Salt complex transformed into Chicago’s hottest new live performance space
The Morton Salt complex in Chicago had been in operation for nearly a century before it was closed down in 2015. Today, the complex has been transformed into a multi-purpose venue for live music and other events named The Salt Shed. Boasting state-of-the-art sound and lighting systems, including a comprehensive Elation stage lighting rig from Upstaging, The Salt Shed is quickly becoming the hot new performance space in Chicago.Read More »From Salt Production to Stage Production: Upstaging Lights Chicago’s Salt Shed with Elation
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’