ALLEN & HEATH PERFORM AT COACHELLAWITH BILLIE EILISH AND KANYE WEST Live by Thomas Richard - June 21, 2019 Kanye West’s innovative Sunday Service atop ‘The Mountain’ at Coachella 2019, supported by an Allen & Heath dLive C3500 Digital Mixing System and over 20 ME-1 Personal Monitor Mixers Celebrated as a premier cultural event and arguably the most well-known music festival in the world, Coachella 2019 did not disappoint.
“Outstanding” Vari-Lite VLZ Profile meets every challenge for Evita Live by Thomas Richard - June 21, 2019 Plan B Entertainment’s US touring production of Evita, with lighting design by Chad Bonaker. © Plan B Entertainment - Will Page Photography The VLZ Profile luminaire, from Vari-Lite’s latest generation of LED moving head fixtures, has once again proven its outstanding stage lighting credentials, this time on Plan B Entertainment’s US
Adair Rodriguez Light Up Duo Pimpinela with PR Lighting Live by Thomas Richard - June 13, 2019 PR Lighting fixtures were in action recently at Argentinian duo, Pimpinela’s, concert at the 4,000-capacity Gran Arena Monticello in Chile, which was a completely sold-out. LD Adair Rodriguez has been lighting the artistes for the past six years, not only in Latin America but also in North America and Europe.
DTS Celebrates Eurovision Success Live by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019 The 64th edition of Eurovision Song Contest ended among the enthusiastic applause of the public and the whole organization. This year the contest took place in Tel Aviv, Israel, following Israel's victory at the 2018 contest; it consisted of two semi-finals on May 14th and 16th, and the final on
ADB and Claypaky enhance “Going Through” on the London Stage Live by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019 “Going Through,” a timely play about an asylum seeker fleeing conflict in her native land, has finished its run at the Bush Theatre in London where ADB KLEMANTIS asymmetric cyclights and Claypaky Axcor Spot 300s (watch) played key roles in the innovative staging. The play, by Estelle Savasta, was translated from
ELC Lighting and Green-GO rock with Nephew Live by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019 ELC Lighting, manufacturer of the innovative dmXLAN Ethernet distribution system and the revolutionary Green-GO digital intercom solution, saw both ranges deployed with great success on the recent national tour by Danish rock band, Nephew. Provided by tour supplier Comtech, the ELC dmXLAN system included 3 x 10GBX and 2 x 18GBX
Party at Elrow with Outline Live by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019 Following last year’s success, in 2019 the RDS Stadium in Genoa (Italy) once again hosted Elrow, an electronic music festival, launched in Barcelona that revolutionized the concept of partying. With its characteristic crazy explosion of colours and masks, Elrow has become one of the most famous events of its type in
Eurovision 2019 Rules with MA Lighting System Live by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019 MA Lighting was once again the control solution of choice for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest staged at the Tel Aviv Expo Centre, Israel, which featured a stunning lighting design created by Ronen Najar and Dakar Azulay. No less than 15 grandMA2 consoles graced the FOH technical area, controlling 71,061 parameters
DiGiCo Celebrates Coachella’s 20th Anniversary Live by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019 A view of Tame Impala’s performance from the DiGiCo SD7 Quantum FOH desk at the Coachella Stage during the band’s Saturday night headlining set Although currently ranked as the globe’s fifth largest music festival, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival—or simply Coachella—remains unparalleled in terms of its prestige and status
The Hunna Back GLP Solutions Live by Thomas Richard - June 9, 2019 Production designer, Tom Campbell used multiples of GLP’s award-winning impression X4 Bar 20s, as well as the new FR1 compact automated light and innovative KNV Cubes in a GLP-dominated stage when guitar-dominated band The Hunna played a small UK tour of mostly O2 Academy theatres recently. After a quiet year, in