Justin Kitchenman Evokes Summer on Luke Bryan Sunset Repeat Tour with CHAUVET Professional Live by Thomas Richard - September 21, 2019 Officially, summer ends in the northern hemisphere on September 23 with the autumnal equinox, but don’t tell that to the thousands of people in cities like Indianapolis and Detroit who will be packing venues to catch the final dates on superstar Luke Bryan’s Sunset Repeat Tour this fall. Joined by friends
Günter Jäckle directs effects with Vari-Lite for Udo Lindenberg Live by Thomas Richard - September 8, 2019 Udo Lindenberg, one of Germany’s most enduring rock stars, is back on the road with Live 2019, another trademark spectacular touring production. This time around, lighting designer Günter Jäckle has included 22 x VL6000 Beams from Vari-Lite. Described by Jäckle as, “like a rock and roll circus, revue, craziness, freak-show, rock
ALLEN & HEATH’S SQ ROCKS THE O2 ARENA WITH BRASS AGAINST Live by Thomas Richard - September 8, 2019September 8, 2019 Continuing to turn heads with its appearances at big gigs and prestigious venues, Allen & Heath’s compact SQ digital mixer recently wrapped up a 22-date European tour with Brass Against, including working FOH and Monitors for the band’s support slot with Lenny Kravitz at London’s O2 Arena. Rapidly making a name
Large Complement of Claypaky Fixtures Shine on Rammstein’s Stadium Tour Live by Thomas Richard - September 7, 2019 German rock band Rammstein just finished its first ever stadium tour in Europe with Claypaky HY B-EYE K25, Scenius Unico, Mythos 2 and Sharpy lighting fixtures, selected by Lighting Designers Ronald Greil and Patrick Woodroffe of Woodroffe Bassett Design, accompanying the show across the continent. Neg Earth Lights, London was
L-ISA Brings New Creative Freedoms for Mark Knopfler Tour Live by Thomas Richard - August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 Mark Knopfler is on the road once again, supporting the release of his new Down the Road Wherever album with an epic show presented in L-ISA Hyperreal Sound technology by L-Acoustics. Having hit venues throughout Europe and headed to North America, Knopfler has once again raised the rock bar with a
Rosalia Goes on the Road for 1st World Tour with Claypaky Lighting Fixtures Live by Thomas Richard - August 21, 2019 Catalan singer/songwriter Rosalia is setting festivals worldwide on fire with her signature flamenco-urban fusion style and sold-out shows in which lighting by Claypaky, represented in Spain by Stonex, shine. In support of her second studio album “El Mal Querer,” Rosalia’s eponymous world tour – her first – launched in the
Ayrton MagicDot-R is a dream for Billie Eilish World Tour Live by Thomas Richard - August 12, 2019August 12, 2019 Dreams and nightmares are the main themes of the Billie Eilish When We Fall Asleep world tour – the first major tour for this young internet sensation whose career is experiencing a meteoric rise. Helping this seventeen-year-old, Indie pop phenomenon to dizzying heights is the tour’s wonderfully creative set design, the
Kinesys Helps Westlife 20 Tour Fly Live by Thomas Richard - August 12, 2019 Popular Irish singing group / boyband Westlife reformed and hit the road again this summer in what one of the most popular and successful reformation campaigns. The first UK arena leg of the Twenty Tour culminated in two phenomenal shows in Croke Park stadium in Dublin, packed with 170,000 wildly
COUNTRY STAR CRAIG MORGAN GOES ALL ALLEN & HEATH Live by Thomas Richard - August 11, 2019 Craig Morgan's FOH engineer Robert Harmon test drove Allen & Heath's dLive S5000 and refused to give it back. With a career spanning 19 years, 12 songs that have made Billboard's country charts, and word of a new major label record deal in the offing, country artist Craig Morgan is on
ZZ Top Kicks Off 50th Anniversary Tour with L-Acoustics Live by Thomas Richard - July 9, 2019 ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill (left) and Billy Gibbons (right) kicking off the band’s 50th anniversary world tour in their home state of Texas Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, ZZ Top —long comprised of the classic trio of Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard—is celebrating
