Last autumn, Production Designer Owen Pritchard-Smith (of Spirit Design) joined up with fast-emerging Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy for a European tour, having previously worked with the artist’s management on other projects. Though he was largely playing through house rigs on that initial tour, a UK stint quickly followed, enabling him to
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Squeek Lights has had their busiest summer ever supplying state-of-the-art lighting packages for tours across the U.S. An especially busy June had the New York-based rental house hopping as they supplied and serviced several acts, including an outing by rock instrumentalists Chon, who toured with a rig of Elation DARTZ
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The compact, feature-rich VL2600 Profile luminaire from Vari-Lite, a Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) entertainment lighting brand, met some crucial needs for lighting designer Alexander V. Nichols in his design for a production of Richard Strauss’s comic opera, Ariadne auf Naxos, by the renowned Cleveland Orchestra. As one of the USA’s older concert
Jazz in Duketown Does it Again with dBTechnologies VIO L212
Dutch Jazz Festival “Jazz in Duketown” in ‘s-Hertogenbosch is the largest event of its kind in the Netherlands using 9 stages and attracting over 175,000 visitors. Once again this year, the international stars playing on the Main-Stage on the city’s marketplace and attracting the largest crowds could rely on excellent
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Sam Parker described the look he devised for Passion Pit’s Manners 10th Anniversary Tour as resembling a “space station command pit.” Like an inter-galactical craft, which turns reality on its head as it approaches the speed of light and enters the darker realm of quantum physics, Parker’s rig expanded creative
Snow Patrol Tours with Outline Newton
Snow Patrol returned to the road, after a seven-year break, with their 2018 album Wildness. Audio provider Adlib used the Outline Newton multi-source processor at the front end of their systems. The Newton is fast becoming an Adlib standard for audio processing and this sold-out UK arena tour was no